The Phillies are putting their best face on the Rolen quandary, but the facade could crumble at the first sign of adversity.
The limestone facade is interrupted at the second and third floors by a large panel of translucent glass lighting the sanctuary levels during the day and casting a glow onto the street at night.
The Streetscapes column on Dec. 4, about the architectural firm of Harde & Short, incorrectly described the status of the exterior facade at the Alwyn Court, at 58th Street and Seventh Avenue, one of the firm's buildings.
Not one of them, however, has the power of Moneo's original site-driven premise: the unapologetic and, at the time, innovative modernist rhythms of the Murcia facade form the fourth wall of an intimate and historic piazza.
And in both cases the devices were thrown against building facades, the first on March 5, 2005, at 845 Third Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, and yesterday's outside 27 East 39th Street near Madison Avenue, in Murray Hill.
The ball landed on the facade just below the second deck in left field.
A large window surround at the fourth floor recalls the same feature on the London store, and the entire facade is clearly modeled on the company's building near Piccadilly Circus.
Yet as their facades crumble in the second act, the play loses some steam.
PARIS — Chiseled into the stone facade of the vacant Second Empire building at 8, rue de Londres here is the name of the French national railroad, a former occupant.
The surgeon looked at his tablet and smiled, the first crack in an otherwise impenetrable professional facade.
