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
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
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
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
When Root saw early drawings of the Auditorium, he said it appeared as if Sullivan were about to “smear another façade with ornament.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
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
In one of their legendary acts, they tagged a facade of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Shea and I sat in front of the Cue Lounge, a bar and billiards club whose facade was painted black.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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
His photographs capture not only the movie houses but their ornate facades and decay -- a record of a cultural landscape disappearing as cinemas are demolished, converted into multiplexes or left to crumble.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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
Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
The hotel was upgraded, doubling the number of rooms to five hundred and creating grand new facades and a new main entrance.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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