Third, we extrude the block facades and we compute a planar ceiling taking into account all the buildings belonging to that city block.
A small, white pool house with three porthole windows and a curved glass-block facade stood next to a brilliant blue water slide.
Mr. Stoltenberg's office is on the 16th floor in the towering rectangular block, whose facade and lower floors were damaged.
Like most of the houses on the block, its facade pays a dutiful, if glib, homage to the street, but the house's real attention — its gaze — is directed toward the carefully fenced backyard, where an orange tree grows and there is shelter from the sun under the long, wide roof of the porch.
St. Ann's, just around the corner from Via Verde, is a prime example: Occupying an entire city block, the facade is varied to make it appear as if there were several buildings instead of one giant one, and to bring the appearance of the scale down to something a little less overwhelming.
Inside the Design Within Reach furniture store directly across from the new gap in the block's facade, the front window was cracked, but inside, light jazz drowned out sounds of excavation and a woman was listening to a sales clerk extol the virtues of a $2,000 Dordoni desk.
Part of the block's facade had gone, the roof collapsed.
All the other designated houses on the block present facades that appear close to their historic appearance.
The capital, Tskhinvali, is a mess of crumbling apartment blocks, their facades pocked with bullet holes.
"Almost too soon he was on Adalbertstrasse … There were apartment blocks with facades drilled by small arms fire, especially round the doors and windows.
Built of biscuity brickwork, to match the creamy Cambridge gault clay of the Darbishire blocks, the facades have deep window reveals (another lesson taken from the Victorian architect) to reflect more light into the flats and give a quality lacking in most flimsy contemporary apartment blocks.
