façade
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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
A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
On a severely damaged façade there's a sign:
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
What better place to reflect on that proposition than a spot just 12 blocks south of Hunt’s apogee: the façade of the Met.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In these cases, race had been an embellishment, a façade tacked onto a superstructure of class.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The steady decrease in quality is unmistakable, and it’s perfectly conceivable that even a day-one Marvel enthusiast would feel the facade crumbling at some point.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Standing in the open courtyard of Longshan Temple in Taipei on a recent morning, I watched a small girl, a rubber duck on her shirt, gaze up at the building’s elaborate facade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Munich's Allianz Arena is sculpted by thousands of diamond-shaped inflatable cushions, while Sydney's similarly named Allianz Stadium has a flatter facade smoothed with long bronze fins.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
There is plenty to protest in the plan: Trump is threatening to install gold accents throughout the buildings, and renderings show a new covered walkway that could interrupt the clean lines of Saarinen’s facade.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
No one seemed to care about another student strike, and people walked past the tanks without stopping to read the placards hanging from the university facade.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
The ornate exterior, with its tapering towers and multiple facades, has an almost organic quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The train rumbles over a bridge; the setting sun is feverishly beautiful, casting a striking pink glow on the facades of the clapboard houses that dot the water’s edge.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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