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What kind of architecture is an open building?
Gonna try to explain this as best I can. You know certain hotels or large office buildings where you walk in, there's a lobby or some such, and it opens up to, say, an atrium with artificial ponds or trees and a restaurant, and you can look up and see all the way up to the roof, usually where a skylight is. And each floor is a balcony winding all the way around that looks over the middle. If anyone knows what I'm trying to get at here, what's the architectural term for a design like that? I'm trying to find out more about it.
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- I am not sure where you are going but there is a hotel in nashville with the same description you just gave it is similar to a loft but on a grander scheme of things here is the wesite of the place I think you are trying to describe. http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-opryland/meetings/
- It is called an atrium. Originally, it was the open center area of a Roman house. You'll sometimes hear it improperly called a courtyard. Courtyards do not have roofs.
