facade
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Videos circulating on social media show an excavator tearing down the facade of the building.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 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
The project also includes restoration of the facade and polishing of its famous stainless steel crown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The stone facade of the upper school, where Jule was to work, stood five stories high.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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
The council said the building's 19th Century façade had been "fully stabilised" with supporting steel beams, while the eastern gable was reduced in height by almost two metres in order to make it secure.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Designed by Gaudí, the Nativity façade is both naturalistic and overflowing with natural imagery: lilies and palm trees, a tortoise and sea turtle, insects and frogs, sheep and ducks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Huge Greek medallions showed in spots of light upon its façade, above a dark labyrinthine pattern in the stone, and I propped her against the stoop with its carved stone monster.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
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
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
We drive down another identical suburban street, past endless rows of tightly spaced homes, once full of life, but now their facades look like dead faces with sagging eyes seething despair.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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