The Frontier's extreme-chic facade tries to hide the fact that under those rubber baby buggy bumpers this is virtually the same truck that has been around for years.
The industrial-chic metal facades at L'Atelier Art Lounge and the Cro Magnon Steakhouse face the boats, not the shell of the Holiday Inn, ravaged by mortars decades ago, or the place where a car bomb killed Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister, in 2005.
Either way, anger and cynicism kept bubbling up through cracks in Chic's sleek facade.
The emblematic former department store continues to be the subject of legal wrangles over plans to install a "glass wave" on the northern facade on the chic Rue de Rivoli.
Pedrosa pointed out his home and, next door, my accommodation, the Vale do Ninho Nature Houses — three former animal sheds reinvented as chic, minimalist cottages, with blank stone facades.
Its big 13th-century, central town square is today a parking lot, the pastel-colored facades of the formerly chic structures surrounding it decaying in real time.
AT first glance, 255 Hudson Street looks like a typical SoHo condominium, with a soaring glass facade, million-dollar listings and a chic designer lobby.
Craning their necks, they saw models decked out in the U.S. fashion brand's sporty-chic clothes and strutting, one after another, down the facade of the building.
Set in a former warehouse with a Beaux-Arts facade, the hotel is a pitch-perfect temple of modernism, chic and serene, with not a superfluous frill in sight.
Outrageously luxurious multimillion-dollar resorts line the coast with imposing facades, each trying to one-up their neighbor in style and chic.
