Within this public area, which is 219 yards by 55 yards and made of granite and York stone, are a series of pavilions housing ticketing facilities, a visitors center, a gift shop and a cafeteria.
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Through a door at the south-west corner of the main hall ( now the vestibule ) there was a York stone staircase to the roof and road, with deep by high by wide treads and a wrought iron handrail.
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He draws much of his inspiration from austere and archaic structures : Egyptian tombs, Cistercian monasteries and, especially, the 19th-century factories of his native Halifax, England, where walls, floors and ceilings are made out of gray York stone.
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The architect wanted the slot to be exactly the width of one York stone, 39 inches, but Klein's assistants experimented to see how much space two customers would need to pass each other without rubbing shoulders and decided it was too much of a squeeze.
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On the plane trip back to New York Stone has a telepathic conversation with Matt; he explains that Stick himself was apparently the last in a line of incarnations of a particular great hero of Japan who was capable of wielding a powerful sword, which has now been stolen by the Hand.
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That same York stone, cut to perfect one-meter squares, covers the floors and stairs of the Calvin Klein store, spreading in every direction like a flat sea at dawn and seeming to slide right beneath the walls, thanks to a favorite Pawson design detail that celebrates the gap between wall and floor.
