'delicate facade' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiom that can be used to refer to a fragile or easily damaged appearance or surface. For example, “Despite the politician’s confident demeanor, there was a delicate facade behind it that could easily be shattered.”.
In the final gallery Tara, the master of Udaipur court in the mid-19th-century, portrays the Hindu festival of Holi erupting in an immense square framed by delicate white facades that we see from multiple perspectives.
The delicate terra-cotta facade of the Rodin Studios was completed in 1917, and that is where Charles K. Eagle, a silk manufacturer, was living in 1919.
ALTHOUGH the American Society of Civil Engineers left 220 West 57th Street more than 80 years ago, the clubhouse's delicate French Gothic facade has survived above a succession of storefronts.
Saana is noted for delicate, veil-like facades, and the museum has spoken of its desire to appear open to the neighboring community.
Photovoltaic cells are integrated into the structure's transparent cellophane skin, their copper filaments tracing a delicate pattern across the facade.
Rows of delicate brises-soleil line the facades of the narrow structure that houses the main courtrooms.
Also worth noting are the ornate facades, amazing masks, delicate figures and intricate designs that adorn many of the buildings.
Farther north, at Reade Street, 287 Broadway was long notable not so much for its respectable but ordinary cast-iron facade as for the delicate ironwork cresting on the top of its mansard, a remarkable survivor.
On the edge of the Old Havana district, for example, stands the elaborately ornamented, French-influenced, Bacardí Building (1930), with its small ornamental ziggurat pinnacles and facade decorated with a delicate gold-leaf zigzag patterns and bronze bats, the Bacardí rum logo.
In what Rosenberg described as a delicate and expensive operation, the brick facade was removed in April, along with a section of the building's steel supports and part of the drywall on its interior.
Engineers, architects and fabricators, aided by materials scientists and software designers, are building soaring facades, arching canopies and delicate cubes, footbridges and staircases, almost entirely of glass.
