EARLIER this year, Dimitris Platis, the consul general of Greece in New York, oversaw the cleaning of the facade at 69 East 79th Street, the Greek consulate, as part of his effort to restore the 1909 town house.
Accurate knowledge of rainwater runoff is important for hygrothermal and durability analyses of building facades, assessment of indirect evaporative cooling by water films on facades to mitigate outdoor and indoor overheating, assessment of the self-cleaning action of facade surface coatings and leaching of particles from surface coatings that enter the water cycle as hazardous pollutants.
Adapting the city to new needs also involved the introduction of a fully automated subway system serving the central city and suburbs, the "pedestrianization" of shopping streets, the cleaning of building facades, and the restoration of the "old quarter" (Saint-Sauveur).
Jeffrey Justin supervised three successive cleanings of the facade, removing roll-down gates that covered the rounded corner storefront, taking out cinderblock infill from between the arches and redoing the lobby, of which he found tantalizing traces of the original.
On the other hand, the renovation has included a magnificent cleaning of the grimy brick facade, and new six-over-six windows with divided lights, when the company could have gone for the low end, one-over-one variety.
Workers are cleaning the facade and rebuilding the projecting oriel window, which was built of galvanized iron over wood framing.
Ms. Hanson said that the co-op board was considering cleaning the facade.
While pattern recognition, matching, and facade parsing approaches are discussed, the detection of facade elements in facade images taken from the ground perspective is only mentioned briefly.
In this example this would be the case for most of the facade panels in each of the top 10 rows of facade panels for the selected facade section.
Table 3 Number of facade images per country we use to evaluate our detection system Spain Hungary Greece USA France Romania Total # Facade images 710314137543 7 54 # Windows 223 223 2236223395 15223619.
This put the adaptive behavior of the facade rules (Section 3.4) to the test, as an enormous variety of facade topology had to be handled.
