Sentence examples for glorious facade from inspiring English sources
Sao Paolo's glorious facade, which is all that remains today, was completed in the 1630's.
Many New Yorkers feel the same way about the MetLife Building (formerly the Pan Am Building), whose dull gray concrete facade punctuates the southern end of Park Avenue like an anvil, blotting out a once-glorious view of Grand Central Terminal.
He dreams of turning the crumbling 375,000-square-foot Hôtel-Dieu, a hospital with a glorious 18th-century facade, into a luxury hotel.
Mr. Rossi's Il Palazzo still maintains the same glorious pinkish stone facade that made it an instant icon in the 90's, but the rooms inside are looking worse for wear.
But here and there an ornate facade or glorious tree remains.
While there are reminders of the glorious past gabled houses, noble brick facades clad with sandstone, richly decorated cornices, towers and churches, and the music of carillons and barrel organs the realities of life in the modern city often belie this romantic image.
Beloved, a tourist attraction and crucial linchpin in the fabric of that neighborhood, it's not glorious architecture, truth be told, with the addition of a 1980s facade that indirectly puts postmodernism on the agenda.
In "Mosque, Mali," a tree that is aggressively sculptural from its roots to the tips of its branches stands in glorious contrast to neat piles of bricks nearby and, behind the tree, the even lines of an adobe building's facade.
