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
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
Exposed rooms where families once lived can be seen, and Iranian flags fly from the shattered façade.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In these cases, race had been an embellishment, a façade tacked onto a superstructure of class.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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
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
He pointed at a tall, gaudy facade at the edge of the square.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
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
Then, if the system is visible from the street, local officials can refuse if it mars the iconic, limestone facades of the city’s Haussmannian buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
The train rumbles over a bridge; the setting sun is feverishly beautiful, casting a striking pink glow on the facades of the clapboard houses that dot the water’s edge.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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