The eight-storey building will have a Portland stone facade and will be run by theatre operator London Aloft.

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On a narrow road of mostly boxy structures, the Gouws' four-story home looks from the outside as if it could have been airlifted from Paris, with a stone-colored facade, neat rows of elegant windows and ivy all over the fence.

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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.

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Behind a dazzling colonnaded facade sat a gold-and-ivory statue of Zeus, divine master of ceremonies a stone god so huge that, had he stood up, his head would have gone through the temple roof.

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