façade
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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
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
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
Cracks in the façade of industry collaboration for the sake of humanity have been exposed before.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Many have an ornate façade of red brick, with four- or five-step stoops leading to the front door.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
In one of their legendary acts, they tagged a facade of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Its facade made it look like a temple in miniature, with two red electric candles, stone lions and a small bunch of pink lilies.
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
Designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, the terminal has a dramatic, glass-walled facade with a sloping roofline that recalls a wingspan.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
We followed Enoch around to the back of the sideshow, where its wall-like facade gave way to a big, flimsy tent.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
The contrast between restrained facades and secretive decoration gets to the heart of the Genoese mentality, says Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, who divides his time between his native Genoa and Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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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