Among the first things this year's guests will encounter is a 50-foot-high facade that says "Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week" and is covered with painted material meant to resemble the marble of the Metropolitan Opera House.
The new Orange Plaza has a 40-foot-high facade accented with 16-foot-high metal grill and, at night, it is awash with lights and color, gives motorists driving north on Route 17 something different to view.
Steer clear of the tourists craning their necks at the ornate 43m-high facade, and instead walk down the main tourist route and up the steps to the cliff ridge bearing the group of monuments known as the Royal Tombs.
"It's a glamorous, high octane facade but when you're working it's 12 weeks of 24 hrs.
The streets buzzed with cars and mopeds as we drove up to the high stone facade of the Armenian church, called Holy Martyrs.
Compared with other work of the time, it is as if an art nouveau column capital appeared on a high Renaissance facade.
Until less than a year ago, only pigeons took much notice of the statue that sits in an alcove on the High Street facade two floors above the entrance to the Rhodes building of Oriel College, Oxford.
Like the countess, these fixtures of New York society have cultivated a high-gloss facade that seems designed to plaster over their identities or recreate them outright.
Despite its high-tech facade, Idealab is something of a throwback to an age when entrepreneurs were dabblers and practically everything depended on one man's ability to keep inventing new ideas.
Mr. Khan's critics say that his model is really a return to rote learning under a high-tech facade, and that it would be far better to help children puzzle through a concept than drill it into their heads.
building, which was expected to become fully operational on Wednesday, has a high-tech facade that looks like a cross between a Mondrian painting and a terrarium but is actually a vertical algae farm.
