Sentence examples for marble facades from inspiring English sources

Washington is less an exemplar of democracy than an agglomeration of marble facades paying unctuous tribute to that aspiration.

"Right now we have employees inspecting the buildings in the old city, but, apart from some cracked marble facades here and there, we have found nothing," he added.

It animates a city that all too often just looks like a blur of grass, cops, flowering cherries and marble facades.

It specialized in loft and retail construction; its projects included the full block of elegant marble facades on Fifth Avenue from 57th to 58th Streets, built in 1927 and later combined as Bergdorf Goodman.

Huge neo-Classical and Second Empire edifices along the avenues and Broadway, in which department stores once hawked "dry goods," are now housing luxury condominiums behind their ornately detailed cast-iron and marble facades.

In Italy (where the traditional technique of building had, even during the Middle Ages, assumed that structure was independent of appearance and where it was common to complete a building in brick before adding its marble facades) the idea that there could be any theoretical dilemma regarding the unison between these two elements was virtually inconceivable.

Start at Thatbyinnyu Temple and admire its terraced marble facade tapering toward a curvilinear spire.

The blank marble facade senselessly blocked out stunning views of Columbus Circle and Central Park.

A Reproduced here is a photograph of the theater from 1937, showing the Tennessee marble facade and stainless steel trim.

The design, by ALLIED WORKS ARCHITECTURE, calls for replacing Stone's marble facade with a terra cotta scrim.

In 1999 the library cleaned its marble facade, although the bronze trim is still tarnished and needs a donor.