"granddaughter facade" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is used to refer to someone who puts on a pleasant or polite face to hide their true feelings. For example, "Though Eliza was polite to her grandmother, her granddaughter facade couldn't hide her disdain."
The grand facade was part of the allure, like the fake gold on a Donald Trump building, although a bit more demure.
Rainaldi's last important work was the grand facade uniting the old apse of Santa Maria Maggiore with the chapels of Sixtus V and Paul V (1673).
Print out the tickets, which contain a bar code, and go to the museum's Velázquez entrance (the central entrance in the middle of the museum's grand facade) and you're in.
Emblematic of the family's historic struggle was John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s decision to house his family in a mansion near Cleveland with a grand facade and a threadbare interior.
Located just off City Square, near the station, the building's grand facade is richly encrusted with mouldings of lions' heads, plants and wreaths – and a balcony from which Liberal bigwigs declaimed to assembled crowds below.
The department store's grand facade was lit up and decked with little Christmas trees, the vitrines adorned in miniature scenes of winter, each telling a story, minute figures ranged around snowy settings busy acting out the festive narrative, which spilled from one window to the next.
Around Akademicheskaya metro station, the apartment blocks are lower and simpler, and the inbetween spaces are full of fountains and benches rather than afterthoughts behind grand facades.
With heritage preservation a low priority, many of the old buildings, some of which are little more than grand facades, are vulnerable to rapacious "land grabbers".
Imagined as a place for festivals and exhibitions, this piazza would have been framed by the grand facades of the surrounding buildings, opening up views of Mansion House, Lutyens' Midland Bank and the Wren church of St Stephen Walbrook.
A few blocks from the grand facades of Austria's diplomatic embassies, whose flags hung damply in the rain, we stumbled across pockets of thriving Japanese and Chinese businesses, before reaching the area's celebrated Naschmarkt.
After visiting the city's best spirits shop, Kratochvilovci, to track down a bottle of Hammer Head whiskey — the bizarre, pre-Velvet Revolution Czech single malt released a couple of years ago to rave reviews — you can step out into the broad, car-free street with impunity and admire the grand facades on either side.
