The first floor of the building contains formal public spaces such as the lobby, elevator vestibule, and main staircase.

The building is appropriate for our Web site operations, which are more comfortable in less formal spaces.

"I'm not as used to dealing with period styles, but our tastes meld: We both like formal spaces."

Upstairs, a dining room called The Tier offers a formal space.

Mr. Wagner uses the front area as a formal entertaining space.

The museum itself has been organized since 1988 as an arts-outreach program, but lacked a formal public space.

A formal space conceived as a monument to imperial rule has become a playground of democracy.

This means that the rational homotopy of a formal space is particularly easy to work out.

For more formal spaces, internal surfaces are decorated with frescoes.

The parlor traditionally functioned as a formal space and was not heated in the winter except on special occasions.