Seven medallions, mainly depicting early American coins, decorate the street-level facade.
A permanent, two-level stage facade consisted of pillars between which were set painted flat panels to indicate different settings.
In a city where the common rule for brownstone facade repair is to trowel on a coat of tinted stucco, dead and flat, this facade has the rich, luminous quality of real stone.
(The flat south facade is comparatively conventional, and some may find perverse enjoyment in the fact that the building presents its backside to Wall Street).
The often-majestic images flickering across the building's flat brick facade include rivers, cranes, buildings, bridges, ships and barges.
In the bottom and top rows, the fins will be "open," flat against the facade.
(On the second level, the facade retains most of its period details).
And though it was modern, the flat, ornament-free facade and the use of tubing seemed to speak to the traditions of functionalism.
Mackintosh built a flat facade in reddish stone, Holl in greenish glass with projecting and receding volumes.
The Lang House, designed for the parents of Jeremy Lang, one of his Columbia-educated young architects, has a flat mustard-colored facade with symmetrical windows and bold white trim, like a simplified cartoon sketch of a Regency villa.
