Video posted by the BBC of bombed-out cars and the pock-marked facades of buildings hinted at the scale of the fighting.
Tiffany's focus on the era coincides with a forceful trend in men's wear, a 21st-century take on the Gatsby style, bottom row, seen on men passing the store's facade, marked with "fountains" of tape.
In 1970, his desolate inmate of a mental institution in David Storey's Home, tears coursing down his face while he maintained a stiff-lipped facade, marked the full flowering of his theatrical Indian summer.
It was followed by Richard Morris Hunt's Tribune Building, which rose an unprecedented nine floors across from City Hall, 260 feet to the top of its clock tower, and George B. Post's 10-story Western Union Building at Broadway and Dey Street, with a flamboyant Renaissance facade marked by alternating bands of granite and red brick.
Now, instead of the grand archways, columns and crown molding that gave the place its Victorian charm, there are just bricks and plywood and shattered glass -- and a facade marked "unsafe" with red spray paint.
As they waited to enter, many students could not help but peer up at the darkened windows of the third floor, their screens torn out, a smudge of soot marking the facade.
The facades of the Tower are marked by the presence of structural elements coated with thick and dense layers of render and mortar.
In addition, a plaque marking the facade as "an interpretive recon-struction" of the Poe House will be installed before the building opens in January.
With a monolithic white facade, marked by a large square protuberance and a ground level wall of glass, the Millennium Wing has dramatically altered the complexion of Dublin's streets, otherwise lined with stately Georgian houses.
There are red brick buildings marked with the backward Z's of old fire escapes, cast-iron facades of 19th-century factories that don't rise over 10 stories, great big warehouse windows and slate-tiled roofs that borrow from European design.
The facade is marked by the extensive use of terra cotta, apparently a last-minute decision made because of a shortage of the Newark sandstone originally selected.
