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Atrium

In the Roman period this was the inner courtyard of a house, left open to the sky, and generally built by the affluent urban classes. In the 20th century the word has been adopted to describe dramatic enclosed glass-roofed indoor spaces associated with high-rise hotels and office buildings that are treated as substitutes for the public realm.

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