cornice

On the right, a cornice suggests a building.

When auditors came to search Freymond’s desk, the story took a farcical turn: Freymond had tried to dispose of the incriminating papers by stashing them outside his office window, on the cornice.

A blast wave is said to have damaged a plastered cornice on the eastern façade but not affected the interior.

Its poor structural condition was exposed in 2012 when bits of its elaborate cornice began falling off after an especially harsh winter which required a multi-million euro renovation the following year.

The first step was to make it seven feet up from the window to a small ledge called a cornice.