In addition to floor-to-ceiling panoramas of Los Angeles that extend as far as the eye can see, the 14-foot-high ceiling at 71 Above is easily the trendy downtown restaurant's grandest structural feature. For the architects at Tag Front, however, it was also the most problematic. The dilemma was retaining that impressive height while also covering the ceiling's HVAC systems and exposed beams, on top of having to minimize the din of chatter and clinking silverware inside such a cavernous space. "We must have gone through four or five different conceptual ideas and kept looking for something different," says Tag Front's Mandi Rafaty.
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机译：除了可以看到的从地板到天花板的洛杉矶全景图，位于71楼上方的14英尺高的天花板很容易成为这家时尚市中心餐厅最宏伟的结构特征。但是，对于Tag Front的建筑师来说，这也是最成问题的。难题在于保留了令人印象深刻的高度，同时还覆盖了天花板的HVAC系统和裸露的横梁，此外还必须最大程度地减少这种海绵状空间内的颤动和叮当响的银器。 Tag Front的Mandi Rafaty说：“我们一定已经经历了四个或五个不同的概念性想法，并一直在寻找不同的东西。”
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