Sentence examples for granite facing from inspiring English sources

Also of rubble with granite facing, the later structure is 1,760 feet (536 metres) long and stands 291 feet (87 metres) above foundation level.

The sprawling, steel-glass HSBC complex with composite granite facing was built to the bank's specifications by Hamilton Partners, a developer based in Itasca, Ill., which owns and manages 12 million square feet of office buildings, mostly in the Chicago area, but also in Denver and Salt Lake City.

The work involved rebuilding a 7m (23ft) section of the wall with fibre reinforced concrete and a granite facing.

The memorial is a bronze caribou, the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, standing atop a cairn of Newfoundland granite facing the former foe with head thrown high in defiance.

Emporis describes the building further: "The facade is of light brown granite facing, with horizontal stripes of windows on the Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street side, extending also a bit over the corner to the 51st Street side and western facade".

Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure is 55 feet (16.8 metres) square at the base and 554 feet 7 inches (169 metres) high and weighs an estimated 91,000 tons.

"He has a granite face," she says.

"What's wrong, Thomas?" he asks, his carved granite face splitting into a grin.

As my climbing group waited to descend the granite face, we were jittery and somewhat scared -- properly so.

They walked for eight days to reach base and then, in a single 27-hour push, conquered its 2km vertical granite face.

Federal geologists have warned for at least a decade that the granite face of Glacier Point above the village was dangerous.