Sentence examples for its severe facade from inspiring English sources

With its severe facade and unusual two-storey "hat" it is one of the city's most distinctive structures.

The divided lights of the double-hung windows form the principal decoration of the severe facade.

In the strict separation between the library's severe stone facade and its airy, light-filled reading room, Mr. Perrault sees an "absolutely radical" mentality.

It's clearly a Holl building, with its abstract facade, eccentric spaces and complex geometry.

Its blank windows and hard facade give it the character of an upscale fortress, although without machine guns.

Its massive facade inspired a general yawn.

Its whimsical facade will make you smile.

He views vinyl siding facades as the key to preserving Williamsburg's working-class traditions, which arguably has become its own facade.

Behind its Neoclassic facade (1741 43), the original basilica has resisted change.

As with many old Wallabout houses, its wood facade had been covered with vinyl siding.

Its rear facade, facing Bryant Park, is almost as prominent as the Fifth Avenue front.