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What style of architecture featured light, asymmetrical, and elaborate facades?

façade

[fuh-sahd, fa-] / fəˈsɑd, fæ- /




facade


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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

Still pending are the sculpting of the south-facing Glory façade, the eventual front of the church, celebrating Christ triumphant, and the addition of a grand entrance staircase envisioned by Gaudí.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But step past the luxury façade into the basement, and the quiet disappears.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

They came to the brilliantly lighted façade of a big vaudeville house.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

This time, I've noticed that under the facade of unity, there's a brewing fight.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Graffiti covered its charred facade, and it became a source of frustration for the neighborhood, attracting squatters and illegal garbage dumping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But spend enough time online and you’ll realize that the facade of cozy nights in and days quietly posing for photos lit by never-ceasing natural light is just that.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 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

Beneath that facade, however, this brave spy took the next step toward one of the most difficult assignments of his career.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Behind the red-brick facades at the plant in Wolverhampton, western England -- once typical of the UK's industrial heartlands -- Safran is developing its new business of actuation systems.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

Not only that, but a lot of “Love Story” takes place behind the public facades of Kennedy and Bessette, in the offices of Calvin Klein and inside Kennedy’s Tribeca loft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Designed to blend into the historic Baroque park, they are notable for their curved ceramic facades, daylight from skylights, accessibility features, drinking fountains -- and free use.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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