Debi Gliori

Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

Scottish Writer

Seph Lawless

Strangely enough, as I explored these abandoned malls, I found myself acting like a kid all over again. At times jumping up on to nearby fountain ledges trying to balance myself as I became mesmerized all over again by the futuristic skylights that dangled fearlessly over my head.

American Photographer

Tom Robbins

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

American Author

Peter Falk

I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.

American Actor

Santiago Calatrava

It is very important to visit the Oculus at a moment in which the skylight is open. Through the enormous 240′ x 20′ opening, we are framing a piece of Manhattan's sky.

Spanish Architect

Jim Parsons

Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

Ellsworth Kelly

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

American Artist

Steven Wright

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

American Comedian

Emphasize skylights as sources of natural daylight in a room or space.

Light Source

Understand skylights as architectural elements that can enhance the aesthetics of a building.

Architectural Feature

Skylights can reduce dependence on artificial lighting, cutting down energy costs.

Energy Efficiency

 Actually, the visibility is better looking down. Yes it is. There's the Marconi room, one of the windows, one of the skylights. VICTOR Oh, let's see here. Before searching for the remains of the Guggenheim state rooms, the team films additional footage of other important features for later analysis, including the area around the captain's quarters.

The Titanic's Guggenheim...

 part of the reason we might be losing him is their cable might be a little bit loose so I'm gonna tell them to hold onto their cable a little bit alright so this would be great so we're gonna get in there we're gonna get him to you know show us around we'll take a good look at that pyramid back up at the skylight and

Hangout in an Ancient...

 sold her address to the Gestapo. Noor refused to give away any information, focusing instead on her escape. Secreting a screwdriver away from the guards, they were able to loosen a skylight and slip out into the night. But just as the prisoners began to run for their lives, an air raid siren alerted her captors.

From pacifist to spy:...

 And if you look at historical pictures of the early operating rooms, they have been on top of buildings. For example, this is the oldest operating room in the Western world, in London, where the operating room is actually on top of a church with a skylight coming in.

Quyen Nguyen:...

 The three biggest uses of energy in a store are heating and air conditioning, then lighting, and then refrigeration. So, look what they did. They painted the roofs of all their stores white. They put smart skylights through their stores

John Doerr: Seeking...

 of the cave. Because we might never return, who knows. And at this point in the cave, the underground world meets the surface world. You basically walk out into one of those simas, one of those skylights but from below.

Stunning Cave...

 It's something you should think about doing. Not many things didn't work. The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights got eaten by the sun in six months. We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.

John Hardy: My green...

 Every wall, every concrete wall is resisting the stresses and supporting the building. Every piece of the building works. These are the galleries with the light coming in through the skylights,

Moshe Safdie: What makes...

 with a couple of skylights and stuff. And from the building in the back, you see it as an iceberg floating by in the hills. I know I'm over time.

Frank Gehry: From 1990,...

 A monkey trying to fish another monkey from above. Monkeys. And each classroom has at least one skylight.

Skylight

Light Source

Architectural Feature

Energy Efficiency

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