They protesters then set the facade of the building on fire.
NOW it is cloaked in white netting, its movie-set facade as secret as the fraternal society that built it in 1927.
Admittedly, the residents didn't specifically request the stage-set facade with its giant brick patterning, mock ornamental gables, cloud-like profiles and false windows, but Fat persuaded them of its practical advantages.
The 12-story Beaux-Arts facade set the tone for the interiors, designed by the French architect Jacques Garcia.
She was also taken with the building's facade, set off with granite pilasters and an Ionic capital.
As spectacle increased after 1650, painted flats with doors and windows were set into the facade in place of curtains.
Though each node can be set differently, the facade will usually be lighted in a solid-color, a pastel, that changes constantly but slowly.
The building's white terra-cotta facade, set to rhythm by bay windows, stares out from the pages of many books on architectural history.
The critic Carter Horsley described its undulating wooden facade, set within a glass box, as "an intriguing complement to the curves of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum a mile and a half or so to the south on the avenue".
The so-called Versailles of the Médoc is not a bad place to work: its imposing facade, set at the end of a driveway of plane trees, is one of the most beautiful(and recognisable) in Bordeaux.
Students at the traditional Bronx Preparatory Charter School will have something more contemporary to think about in the fall: a new, modernist school campus, with irregularly shaped hallways, interconnected small buildings and an articulated facade, set at a jaunty angle to the street.
