Sentence examples for one facade from inspiring English sources

As the ornate letters on one facade proclaim, this was originally the Manhattan Trade School for Girls.

A marble slab etched with the words of the First Amendment is suspended on one facade like an ancient Roman tablet.

A relief sculpture on one facade depicts the history of the German workers' movement, and culminates with workers constructing tower blocks from exactly the same panels.

One facade has a glass curtain wall, a galvanized-steel staircase and perforated aluminum cladding.

Rectangular shapes, resembling sprocket holes, are screened onto one facade, inviting passersby to visualize the hotel as it actually is: a setting for dramas of anticipation or escape, for fantasies fulfilled or disappointed, appetites whetted beyond the possibility of satisfaction.

Like some beached and eviscerated whale, the house sits along the main road here with one facade stripped of its double-height balcony and another sheathed in jarring white plastic.

"It's all one big facade," said Sanae Sida, a spokeswoman for the Greenpeace environmental group in Tokyo.

The book's flat characters allow us a level of familiarity and stability, while the language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.

Cross ventilation is attained when rooms with a double orientation with at least two walls face externally in opposite directions as shown in Figure 1a, and single ventilation is achieved when there is only one external facade as shown in Figure 1b.

So did other Catalan architects, his contemporaries, like Puig i Cadafalch, who fell under the inspiration of Dutch townhousing and, for a chocolate millionaire named Amatller, built on Passeig de Gracia a fantastically rich variant on one of those stepped facades that gaze down on the canals of Amsterdam.

Nastya Yegorova, a Moscow architect who has designed three usadby, said she even created a coat of arms to mount on the facade of one family's usadba.