Sentence examples for before the facade from inspiring English sources

Mr. Humm said the scaffolding went up in 2007, a year before the facade work even began.

The liveliest scene is "The Deluge," in which a series of ordinary street events occurs before the facade of a Classical-looking house.

The fountain was in fact unveiled in 1651, a year before the church of Sant'Agnese was begun, two years before Borromini was called in, and 15 years before the facade was completed.

In historic districts, property owners must obtain the city's permission before altering the facade of a building or making any interior changes that require a Department of Buildings permit or that could affect the building's exterior.

If the proposal passes, landlords would have to apply for special permits from the city before altering the facades for the roughly 73 buildings in the district.

A year before he irreparably altered the facade, the three-year-old Landmarks Commission had decided to make Greenwich Village a historic district.

A looping bronzed band swoops and swirls up and down the building, gouging out great gashes here and there, cutting slippery fissures into the facade, before flaring out in a graceless canopy above the street.

"I've done works that take up entire walls, but I'd never done the facade of a building before," Mr. Kelly said.

Mr. Lagervall managed to get up the stairs and out the front door before the brick facade came tumbling down from three floors above.

What could make a better screen picture, after all, than Mr. Hampson and his pianist, Vlad Iftinca, performing American music in a grand space before the stately facade of the Branch Bank of the United States, with sculpture everywhere?

Lavishly staged before the Baroque facade of the Salzburg Cathedral, it was the centerpiece of the inaugural Salzburg Festival (and remains central, in the view of reactionaries, to this day).