Meridian FormAn Exploration of Structure and Light
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The Main Reading Room

The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress: three arched stained-glass windows beneath a gilded coffered dome, framed by marble columns and tiers of arches below.

Arches within arches, marble and gold rising to a coffered dome. The room is built as an argument for order, and it keeps light the way a lens does, gathering it toward a center.

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