Rock facades gave way, leaving interiors exposed.
On display is his huge oil, "El Khasne, Petra" (1874), which dramatically reveals the rock-cut facade of the many-columned Khazneh, a resplendent tomb for an unknown royal, as it first appears to visitors approaching through the narrow rocky gorge that was the main entrance to Petra.
The stone facades sandblasted.
York & Sawyer was known for massive stonework, and the Shepley firm was the successor to Henry Hobson Richardson, who made a specialty of craggy rock-faced facades.
To rectify this deficiency somewhat, I asked students to examine a city street near their job or home to identify the rocks in facades.
A Chunk of the Rock The granite facade of Prudential Insurance Co. of America just got nicked.
Blending into the surrounding desert landscape, the Lodge at Sedona's slate, red rock and timber facade offers spectacular views of labyrinths, not to mention views of Sedona's mountains and mesas.
With giant fake rocks on the facade, it looked like a Disney prototype on meth.
If the moss rock on the facades isn't exactly local, "at least the stone came from Wyoming," Ms. Allen said.
Narrated by Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, the video takes viewers on a journey along the narrow path through the rose-coloured rock to the famous facade of Al Khaznah (the Treasury), past the Street of Facades and the 8,000-seat 8,000-seatre, to the Monamphitheatreved deep into the Monastery– as well as visiting the surrounding tombs and temple.
It a movingly simple grotto, said to originally have been dug by Peter himself out of the soft volcanic rock of Mount Starius: its facade was constructed by Crusaders in 1100, and rebuilt in the 19th century.
