façade
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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
With most of the building reduced to rubble, only the façade on Gordon Street was left standing.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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
Chamberlin had planned the meeting as a trap to try to shatter Holmes’s imperturbable façade, and was impressed with Holmes’s ability to maintain his insouciance despite the rancor in the room.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
That meant ditching bright orangy accents for a more subdued facade with many more windows, making the property look more like an office building than a warehouse.
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
The LP revolved around a sad clown persona, a facade to cope with her harsh internal criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The exterior of the home offers a chic facade, while the interior boasts an expansive open floor plan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The ivy which used to soften the effect of that bright red facade had been stripped away, perhaps to preserve the brickwork.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
A 2025 simulation of a densely populated neighbourhood in the French city of Lyon showed that air conditioners installed on building facades could locally raise the air temperature by 1.75C.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
There are no such qualms about portraits of 73-year-old strongman leader Emomali Rakhmon -- which have replaced many of the torn-down facades.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Stuf’s business model means it doesn’t put up new buildings with blank facades, but neither does it bring new life to existing commercial strips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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