façade
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The skyscraper, opened in New York nearly 100 years ago, will see its Art Deco crown polished and restored during a refurbishment that will also involve the restoration of the building's 77-storey façade.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Today, visitors enter via the ornate Nativity façade, on the church’s eastern side.
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 these cases, race had been an embellishment, a façade tacked onto a superstructure of class.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Behind the facade, though, something very different was going on.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
On Aug. 5, Betancourt strode into a conference room behind the art deco facade of the old Greyhound Bus Terminal in downtown Washington that houses an auxiliary Pentagon office.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
The project also includes restoration of the facade and polishing of its famous stainless steel crown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Out of the front windows was the distinctive facade of the Chelsea Hotel.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
From the facade of the new Abbey the giant letters invitingly glared.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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
Bogota Mayor Carlos Galan said on Blu Radio that damage in the national capital appeared to be limited to cracks in the facades of houses and buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Here was a street paved in lapis lazuli, the carved facades of buildings rising up on either side.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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