They were functional in design and ascetic in appearance, incorporating rigorous geometric forms and bare facades.
With time, the once-bare facade of the house comes to life with window boxes, flowering hedges and potted plants of the front stoop.
The system afforded only the barest facade of democracy and was a constant irritant to the people of Nepal, who saw in it not only unbridled royal privilege but also the source of corruption and the abuse of political power by royal favorites who had no interest in the development of this mountainous country, still one of the poorest in the world.
He also creates glitch tattoos of religious icons to lay bare the facade of false idols.
Saint-Étienne has an austere facade bare of ornament.
The model has been verified with a set of experiments that measured both bare and vegetated facade thermal performance of an educational building in Chicago, IL, during the summer.
At some point its cornice was stripped off, leaving a bare scar, and the facade has a ragtag appearance, with broken windows and similar decay.
Sometime before the 1940's, the iron railings at each apartment window and the masonry balustrades at the fourth and 10th floors were stripped off, emphasizing the bare appearance of the facade.
In paintings like "Girl With Roses" (1947-48) and "Girl With a White Dog" (1951-52), he put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter's social facade.
Vestiges of Khorsabad Palace in what is now Iraq, including a colossal Assyrian hero choking a lion, lifting its head and baring its teeth, depicted on the facade of the throne room.
But after Thanksgiving, the pumpkins were removed, and the facade of the 19th-century Queen Anne-style home is now bare, between its seasonal decorations.
