facade
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The facade is currently getting a lick of new white and burgundy paint, financed by the sale of raffle tickets.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Behind the facade, though, something very different was going on.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
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
His lecturer’s facade gave way to a grin as he tried with marginal success to wipe the pitch off of his hands with a rag.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The skyscraper, opened in New York nearly 100 years ago, will see its Art Deco crown polished and restored during a refurbishment that will also involve the restoration of the building's 77-storey façade.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Today, visitors enter via the ornate Nativity façade, on the church’s eastern side.
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
A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Too bad that façade is destined to crumble.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
The restaurant experience was the visitors’ introduction to the officious inanities of the Soviet Union, a place of facades and concealment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
There are centuries-old churches alongside bright, modern facades.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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