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Access to this great room is via stairs that rise up through the points of the triangle, where the headroom would otherwise be lowest. From a trapezoidal landing, the floor then actually steps down again to a ring 4½ feet wide, and then down once more to a hexagonal central space 20 feet across.
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At the apex is a flat triangular skylight; the mirrors turn it into a bright octahedron floating in the center of the sphere. Each of the three mirrors is bisected horizontally by a narrow skylight about 35 feet long. These lights and their reflections provide natural illumination inside an otherwise closed pyramid.
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