Florence Train Station6

 From the French word for window, fenetre, we get the word fenestration--the use of glass or of windows in a building. Nothing says moderne quicker than wall-wide, light-soaking expanses of glass. One only has to think of the skyscrapers of Mies van der Rohe. 

 Here, a wide ribbon of glass flows forward from the concourse at the back, over the main ticket lobby, then down and over the porch at the front and down, finally, to the ground in one uninterrupted cascade of glass. 

 Inside, there is only luminous, window-gridded sky above, the light drifting down the luscious amber marble walls in waves of intangible honey.