The lovely 1930s facade of the building in Cambridge conceals a museum barely two rooms big – but it is a part of the much larger Scott Polar Research Institute, which researches (inter alia) the history of polar exploration and climate change.
As I explored the block, though, it was impossible not to be simultaneously drawn to Corpus Christi, with its lovely grey facade and its bright red door.
And near the lovely stone facades and luxury boutiques of Passeig de Gràcia, I found Generator Barcelona, which opens May 14. Occupying a tall 1960s office building, the hostel was still a chaos of forklifts and plaster dust when I visited.
After sundown, a crowd gathers at the Miroir d'Eau (Place de la Bourse), part fountain and part art installation that reflects the lovely lit-up facades of the adjacent palace.
The wealthy live in large residences marked by lovely doors and facades, the less well-to-do in crumbling structures.
Another one-bedroom, on East 76th Street, cost $2,100 a month and had a lovely renovation, but the building facade — concrete framing a large street-level retail window — stopped them cold.
You are probably going to Santa Lucia, where all the lovely gondolas and crumbling building facades are.
For example: a splashy color advertisement for the penthouse at 2728 Henry Hudson Parkway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx displays some lovely, light-flooded rooms, an intricate prewar facade, and a big gray banner that reads, "Former home of Eleanor Roosevelt".
The facade the film offers is a lovely, and mildly diverting one, but there's little insight to be found below the surface.
