façade
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Specialist façade contractor Lindner Prater was also fined £300,000, after it and St James were found guilty of ignoring "foreseeable risks".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Mocked by some as the “Darth Vader” façade for its bizarrely helmeted Roman soldiers, the Passion façade embodies the New Testament story of betrayal, suffering and transcendence in angular, expressionistic figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Too bad that façade is destined to crumble.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Behind the facade, though, something very different was going on.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
On Aug. 5, Betancourt strode into a conference room behind the art deco facade of the old Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Washington that houses an auxiliary Pentagon office.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
An AFP photographer on Thursday saw that the diplomatic emblem and a plaque that adorned the consulate's facade had been removed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Out of the front windows was the distinctive facade of the Chelsea Hotel.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
I’d been putting on this tough-guy facade for nearly a week, and I just couldn’t do it anymore.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
But most insistently, the interstitial visuals are cinematographer Szor’s night shots of apartment facades in modern Tel Aviv: citizens at rest with their loved ones, working out or eating in front of their televisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
He’d return with images of abandoned stairwells, dilapidated neon signage, Art Deco theater facades, boiler room control valves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The restaurant experience was the visitors’ introduction to the officious inanities of the Soviet Union, a place of facades and concealment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Their corners were vague, their facades streaked, dewed, smeared.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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