Sentence examples for floor facade from inspiring English sources

The first floor facade blew off the building, and the cart was twisted like an aluminum can.

A handwritten addendum corroborates the obvious: the third floor facade and the ground-floor gates are listing menacingly toward the sidewalk.

It was probably at this time that the stoop was stripped off and replaced with a basement entrance, and the first floor facade, including the Florentine arches, was slathered with stucco.

Although the houses had lost their ground floor facades, most of them retained their slim dormers and peaked roofs.

Outside, the dome and sloping roofs look solid, but the first floor facades are wretchedly decayed, panes of glass out, wooden pieces out, entire windows out, all engulfed by either rot or peeling paint.

Although the ground-floor facade has been insensitively modernized, the rest of the facade is extraordinary.

"We were wondering what this building had been, why the first-floor facade had been blocked up," he said.

Take No. 254, with its scrumptious inset porch under a stony arch over an angled oriel window on top of a rich, rocky main-floor facade.

While the building sat vacant, vandals tagged the limestone facade with graffiti, and chunks of the first-floor facade were stripped off.

Although most of the ground-floor facade was definitely ripped out, Mr. Abaya said he believes that the balance was just covered over.

Because of the severity of both the 1911 and 1929 designs, and because the original lower-floor facade has been eliminated, the altered building has lost much of its domestic character and looks like a purpose-built commercial structure.