Dr. Glanzer used a different technique in the Rockies: A wood frame supports a 1.5-inch-thick facade of fake stone colored and chemically distressed to give the illusion of age.
On Sept. 11, flaming steel debris from the south trade tower had smashed against the thick terra cotta of that facade and started the fire within.
By the 19th century and well into the 20th, the capital city, Havana, with its thick sea walls and rococo facades, was a cosmopolitan magnet for businessmen, artists and tourists alike.
And Cardinal Hayes is still there, too, its renovated facade partly hidden behind thick, leafy trees.
When you consider that terrorist threats may take the form of nuclear devices, poison gases, germs and computer sabotage, even a concrete wall 30 inches thick isn't more than a facade.
Given the harsh light of the Middle Eastern sun from the east and the west at various times of the day, he deployed thick extruded ceramic louvers on those facades.
They trusted only banks with granite facades, marble floors and thick bars on the tellers' cages and passbooks they could fondle.
The building's facade is made of 1/4" thick single-pane clear glass panels spanning 9'-6" from floor to ceiling channels, and measuring 10'-6" wide.
It reveals that in a former life, his home was a charming clapboard with some design flourishes on the siding and a thick cornice at the top of the facade.
The home's terra-cotta-colored facade is adorned with a thick crop of palmas (cut and dried palm leaves), hanging from the eaves in bountiful bunches, protruding like a hula dancer's skirt.
There is thick black paint on virtually every wall or facade here.
