Structures may still come and go, but the area's cultural face is preserved.
More than any event in recent decades, the Temporary (now known as the Geffen Contemporary) changed the cultural face of Los Angeles.
"With Laurent's guidance, Artcurial has put forth the cultural face of the auction house," he said.
"Steakgate" will be resolved in the next few weeks, but the wider question of what cultural face Britain should present for export is still open.
Now consider that all these elements might somehow be connected, might represent different aspects of some giant whatsit that will eventually constitute the cultural face of our time in the eyes of the future.
One year on from the Bataclan shootings the Paris art world is exhibiting a defiant response to that violence, the cultural face of a city determined to find its avant garde soul again.
This is the year of the cultural face-lift.
Under some conditions, the cultural face will dominate, while in other contexts, the instrumental concerns prevail.
To understand different empirical findings, we need to take into consideration the two faces of social relations: the cultural face versus the instrumental face.
"For years she has spoke about the joy of giving a cultural face to older women," Kelly said.
Yet, being at the confluence of the French and the English traditions, Montreal has developed a unique and distinguished cultural face.
