His addition to the west facade of El Escorial relieves the monotony of Toledo's original plan, and his church there is a marked improvement on the latter's earlier design.
Some people will celebrate the demise of what they considered a shocking addition to the Victorian facades on the Exhibition Road side of the museum.
In addition to the functions of building facades (rooftops are included in the overall structure of a building facade), solar facades are designed to specifically reject or absorb and reutilize solar heat.
The homes, designed by Roberta Washington Architects of Harlem, will have masonry concrete facades in addition to the cornices and stoops "to replicate the look of original brownstones," Mr. Rooney said.
The newest addition to the Princeton University campus stands camouflaged behind a cement facade -- all five levels, 185,000 square feet, all $48 million worth.
His addition to the Van Gogh museum, for example, was considered by many to be highly alien to Amsterdam: a curving granite facade, a convex titanium roof, a wall lined with aluminum protrusions.
Mr. Holl is also at work on a new addition to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and an extension to the architecture school at the University of Minnesota -- "during winter, strips of snow will enliven the facades with sparkling white horizontal lines".
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During the periodic renovations undertaken, the various ruling dynasties of the Islamic Caliphate constructed additions to the mosque and its precincts, such as its dome, facade, its minbar, minarets and the interior structure.
