façade

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

A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

A planning application, lodged in March, would have seen the building clad in a false façade including an advertising screen to hide building work prior to the fire.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Exposed rooms where families once lived can be seen, and Iranian flags fly from the shattered façade.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Behind his innocent façade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short-legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Distinguished by a red-tiled facade and paper lanterns hanging overhead, the shrine had offering cups arranged in rows on a crimson table and a bronze urn spouting wisps of incense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

If Hefner was good at anything, it was creating a facade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

There is plenty to protest in the plan: Trump is threatening to install gold accents throughout the buildings, and renderings show a new covered walkway that could interrupt the clean lines of Saarinen’s facade.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Every window on its facade has been broken but the walls are hardly scorched; two of its wooden flower boxes hang on.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

There are centuries-old churches alongside bright, modern facades.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly