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What style of architecture featured light, asymmetrical, and elaborate facades?

façade

[fuh-sahd, fa-] / fəˈsɑd, fæ- /




facade


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Specialist façade contractor Lindner Prater was also fined £300,000, after it and St James were found guilty of ignoring "foreseeable risks".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

In one scene, a confrontation with Brandon, she must puncture his smug façade and shake the truth from him.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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 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

In one of their legendary acts, they tagged a facade of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Standing in the open courtyard of Longshan Temple in Taipei on a recent morning, I watched a small girl, a rubber duck on her shirt, gaze up at the building’s elaborate facade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Beneath that facade, however, this brave spy took the next step toward one of the most difficult assignments of his career.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

The peeling facades, faded signs and cavernous auditoriums of such cinemas are remnants of a time when going to the movies was itself the main event.

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

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

Tudor facades, tiny metal balconies, wood chips under the stairs.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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