façade
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The council said the building's 19th Century façade had been "fully stabilised" with supporting steel beams, while the eastern gable was reduced in height by almost two metres in order to make it secure.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
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
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
Trump’s name was removed from the facade soon after.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It helps that Early’s vision of our media-steeped contemporary lives sees through the shiny, digital facade.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Like the rest of the buildings at Rock Center, Tuttle’s had a kind of boring tan Art Deco facade.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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
Today, many factories are vacant, with for-rent signs hanging on their facades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
There are centuries-old churches alongside bright, modern facades.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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