Sentence examples for the back facade from inspiring English sources
On the back facade, three heroic French faces stare out across a barren highway leading to the Throgs Neck Bridge.
The Streetscapes column last Sunday, about the effects of a planned redesign on the back facade of the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan, misstated the quantity of books to be moved off-site from the stacks.
The changes, part of a $300 million renovation plan by the British architect Norman Foster, include converting two small windows facing Bryant Park into emergency exits; making the windows on the back facade capable of opening; adding an air-conditioning unit on the roof, and turning 18 feet of wall along 40th Street into a gate to make room for a second loading bay.
The library will seek permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to convert two small windows facing Bryant Park into emergency exits; make the windows on the back facade capable of opening; add an air-conditioning unit on the roof; and convert 18 feet of wall along 40th Street into a gate to allow for two loading dock bays rather than the existing one.
However, the idyllic, laid back facade hides the reality of a community that is struggling with gangs and drugs.
The factory building cleverly incorporates the industrial border at Tassafaronga, while the centerpiece of the village, the apartment building where I found the tricyclists, has what Mr. Baker calls a "dragon's back" facade, a wavy, multicolored flourish that acts like a flag for the community.
Terraces that will line both the front and back facades will be oval in shape, giving them the appearance of petals on a branch.
It overhangs the front and back facades by 2 feet, but does not project the sides.
White concrete slabs form the front and back facades.
There are a few other buildings in New York whose back facades compete in importance with the front.
In Brooklyn's brownstone neighborhoods, with their profusion of rear gardens, the battle between tradition and modernity often plays out in backyards, with owners substituting glass walls or metal projections for traditional back facades.
