The value of a "cultural resource" is harder to preserve than, say, architecturally significant monuments like the Victorian-era Bradbury Building or Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, both of which are designated historic-cultural monuments and have remarkable facades that effortlessly make the case for preservation.
It is little wonder then that Le Cagnard whose remarkable medieval facade hovers over Renoir's Les Collettes (his final place of dwelling and work) effortlessly fulfills both of these criteria.
The Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Couture (10th 13th century) possesses a Gothic facade with remarkable 13th-century sculptures.
PARIS — From the window of his store in the Marais quarter of Paris, Thierry Vendome has a direct view of the Hôtel de Beauvais, a 17th-century example of French classical baroque architecture remarkable for its imposing facade and theatrical courtyard.
Playing the character of Boris Yellnikoff, a hateful physics professor who teaches chess to children and who was once "almost nominated" for the Nobel prize, David maintains a remarkable lack of charm and a facade of self-righteous anger.
The main facade of Duff House is remarkable for its height, and with the tall corner towers the impression is of a highly vertical house.
At 190 Third Avenue is a remarkable building, with elaborate white stone work on its facade, that is inscribed "Scheffel Hall" and "Allaire's".
After serving in the Army during the Second World War, he resumed his career here, and he was one of the remarkable artists--others were Ludwig Bemelmans, Abe Birnbaum, and Charles Martin--who Martin--who Martin--whofacreatedhind which the magazine treassuring itselfacadehe forties and fifties.
Farther north, at Reade Street, 287 Broadway was long notable not so much for its respectable but ordinary cast-iron facade as for the delicate ironwork cresting on the top of its mansard, a remarkable survivor.
Everywhere I went I came upon something new and remarkable -- Frank Gehry's asymmetrical glass atrium for the DG Bank, for example, or Jean Nouvel's gleaming curved facade for the Galeries Lafayette.
The ceremony next to the Pentagon's new limestone facade this morning was part memorial service, part call to arms and part celebration of the building's remarkable reconstruction.
