façade
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A planning application, lodged in March, would have seen the building clad in a false façade including an advertising screen to hide building work prior to the fire.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
“The façade was badly deteriorated, and the interior was … well, let’s say it was very lived-in,” according to their architect, Ben Bischoff.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Gnarled old vines cover half the façade of the house, and the yellowish stones are smoothed from rain.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
"You think of the name, the exposure, all the facade of it all."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The facade has vertical ridges running down the side, which Diamond said was inspired by the ribs of Saguaro cactuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Help, here's my dead mother," Mirosnel Gordon wrote in black paint on the green facade of a house.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Like the rest of the buildings at Rock Center, Tuttle’s had a kind of boring tan Art Deco facade.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The fortunes of Havana's colonial buildings mirror that of the nearly seven-decade-old revolution, their peeling pastel-colored facades are symbols of the repeated crises that have rocked the island, and its surprising resilience.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The ornate exterior, with its tapering towers and multiple facades, has an almost organic quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
While the grounds have yet to be landscaped, the structures designed to house foster siblings together are clearly taking shape, featuring white facades, gray rooftops, and numerous windows.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
Brick facades and chimneys still The USS Malvern.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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