façade
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Today, visitors enter via the ornate Nativity façade, on the church’s eastern side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Only the façade of the building at the corner of Gordon Street and Union Street was left standing after the fire in March.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
But his anger was a façade, easily seen through after a few minutes of talking.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Graffiti covered its charred facade, and it became a source of frustration for the neighborhood, attracting squatters and illegal garbage dumping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
A federal judge in May ordered Trump’s name to be removed from the center’s facade, where since December it had been affixed ahead of President John F. Kennedy’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Now its lackluster facade is gray from mold and pollution, and its walls cracked from neglect.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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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
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
Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said on Blu Radio that damage in the national capital appeared to be limited to cracks in the facades of houses and buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
False Amtrak facades concealed the flaking, peeling walls.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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