façade

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

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

And the occasional cracks in what might be called her monumental façade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

I hurried to my address and was challenged by the sheer height of the white stone with its sculptured bronze façade.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

While the exterior features a traditional red brick facade, the interior follows a much funkier black-and-white theme throughout the main living spaces.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

The building has now been substantially refurbished and its facade changed, but it has been a huge headache for Austrian authorities, who want to prevent it from becoming a site of neo-Nazi pilgrimage.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The prosecutor's office is already investigating a criminal complaint regarding the 958,000-euro renovation of the tower's surrounding 700-metre wall, for which workers were painting a brick-effect concrete facade instead of laying brick cladding.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

And I don’t know if it fooled other people, but I think Johnny was just putting on a facade, a front.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones

Across Havana, the ravages of time, lack of maintenance and overcrowding is writ large in the facades of one of the best preserved colonial cities in the Americas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

The fortunes of Havana's colonial buildings mirror that of the nearly seven-decade-old revolution, their peeling pastel-colored facades are symbols of the repeated crises that have rocked the island, and its surprising resilience.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Besides ductwork and heating-and-cooling equipment, big residential projects such as those his firm develops use a lot of aluminum in facades and structural components.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri