Sentence examples for granite facade from inspiring English sources
The Danish Embassy was gutted and its granite facade scorched.
Constitution Museum, whose stalwart granite facade belies the whimsical displays inside, provides the history lesson.
This was replaced in 1985 with the present impassive granite facade designed by Giorgio Cavaglieri, built all the way out to the building line.
The French architect Maurice H rt created a chilly granite facade derived from the chateaus of Chenonceau, Azay-le-Rideau and, at the rear, Blois.
This time the idea no longer involves stripping away the base of the building's pink granite facade, the proposal that incited the Landmarks Commission earlier in the year.
The granite facade of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum mimics the classical dictates of official Washington, but with an exaggerated sense of hollowness and vacancy.
The granite facades that line its streets are vaultlike.
On Union Street, the payday loan shops, half-hidden among the imposing granite facades, attest to the difficulties.
The Waterfront Center buildings, designed to harmonize with Hoboken's historic character, have attractive brick, limestone and granite facades featuring geometric shapes, like triangles, pyramids and a circle.
Political extremes met in the bombastic form of massive granite facades, square pilasters, eagles and other motifs from the repertory of ancient Rome.
The new piers replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a magnificent row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades.
