The Architect · Lina · New York
Bethesda Terrace
Everyone photographs the fountain; the architecture is in the arcade below. The Bethesda Arcade has a ceiling of nearly 16,000 encaustic Minton tiles — the only such ceiling of its kind — and at golden hour the light bounces off the lake and up under the vaults. Stand under the tiles and look up.
Central Park's grand terrace — and the Minton-tiled ceiling in the arcade beneath it.
— Lina, The Architect
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