The engraved stonework depicts the DNA double-helix and marked 60 years since their discovery was published.
The streets are frozen in white, the iron lamplights jet black against the stonework.
The stonework you would normally get in a stone chapel has been replaced by concrete.
Current work will protect the glass for at least two centuries, and will replace nearly all of the stonework.
The refurbishment also included cleaning and repairing stonework outside and inside the 1926 building.
Clean-up know-how has advanced a long way, says Mike Bullen of Maysand, a Manchester stonework firm.
Touring the Bloomberg building's lobby, he disparages the contractors for subtle flaws in the floor's herringbone stonework.
The stonework, sculptures, organ, stained glass windows, bells and clock have all been worked on since 1942.
Such descriptions as they left of their work are as shorn of embellishment as the granite stonework.
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The Grade-II star listed Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery needs repairs to its Victorian stonework and its roof.
An amnesty has been offered to anyone handing in any stonework they suspect may belong to the original building.
Works included cleaning stonework, restoring the Clore Old Library, chancel and nave including 15th Century stalls, and improving access.
Imagine the cost of restoring hundreds of rotted oak beams and replacing stonework on castellated walls four feet thick.
"It's going to have a lot of natural stonework and horizontal lines, " says Richard Rizzo, chairman of Perini Building Co.
The fabric of the building will also be upgraded and restored, including roof coverings, windows, internal and external stonework and carpentry.
Archaeologists have determined that slaves from the neighbouring villages, likely in the north, built Choquequirao, using vertical stonework and small stones (limestone and granite).
The grant will fund part of a wider conservation project at the site, to restore the original stonework, and extensive repairs to the roof, stage and seating platforms.
All around the house, masons painstakingly restored cornices and ornate stonework.
The City of Lincoln Council said it had received a substantial grant for the structure and it was looking at major repairs and replacement of stonework.
It now wants to repair the stonework, and hopes to recover pieces which may have been rescued when parts of the hall were damaged by fire in 1822.
Stonework on the building was damaged by a 1977 sand-blasting which, while it turned a black building white, also took off the limestone's protective facing, swiftly turning it grey again.
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