When the facade opens, "It looks like the building's falling in on itself, " he said.
Think of looking at the facade of a house with the other three sides hidden.
The white-and-green stucco, two-story dental clinic has the doctor's name in fancy letters on the facade.
"We did not believe that the facade was of landmark quality, " said Mr. Maddox.
They include keeping the Canongate Venture building and the facade of the Old Sailor's Ark.
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Perry uses the facade to shoot city street scenes for his movies, including his successful "Madea" franchise.
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The facade is austere white marble and black granite, with a towering auditorium rising above the main building.
Liberty Wharf manager, Simon Tinley, said there were plans for a new sign and to light the facade.
Other suppliers go to absurd lengths to maintain the facade of a useful Web site while placating retailers.
The council said the facade, which includes a date plaque, was "seriously out of line and no longer level".
With the technique, the facade looks and feels like a traditional brownstone building, but it is also able to move.
In London, British Defense Secretary George Robertson said a "crack in the facade of the Yugoslav regime" had appeared.
The facade is faintly Gothic, with echoes of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral.
But at the center of the facade over the main entrance sits the faint imprint of the Star of David, the symbol of Judaism.
The facade on 35 Avenue therefore retains its original appearance as a three-story industrial structure of masonry and glass, with the exception of one significant intervention.
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These find perhaps their purest expression in the facade, where the simple white pilasters between the arches lead one's attention upward to the slender columns of the tower.
Even after the departure of Duvalier, the military continued to harass and attack the radio station, to tear down transmitters and even to machine-gun the facade of the building.
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Mr. Carpenter's architectural design work includes the facade of the new 7 World Trade Center tower in New York and the renovation of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, completed in 2010.
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For the next 7 minutes, video images of Ralph Lauren clad models strutted along the balconies, a giant green belt wrapped itself around the building and polo horses galloped across the facade.
Then again, we'd expect RIM to keep up the facade as long as possible, considering the likely domino effect a capitulation in India would have in nearby states that have similar security concerns.
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It suited their needs to see the fierce competitor, the athlete who dominated the Tour de France seven times, forgetting that behind the facade was a man just like other men -- not perfect, but flawed.
Through his unexecuted project for the facade, a little known study for the tombs of Medici popes Clement VII and Leo X, and studies for the Laurentian Library, Michelangelo transformed himself from a painter and sculptor into an architect.
Baseballs are woven throughout the plans, embedded in ironwork along the side of the facade, through terra-cotta balls adorning the top of the stadium, in stitches visible in the tile inlay on the rotunda floor and in its dangling baseball-and-bat chandelier.
Some of Richard Wilson's previous works include a large disc sawn out of the facade of a building for the Liverpool Year of Culture and a section of ship moored near the Millennium Dome in 2000, cut vertically to show its cross-section.
The historic facade of the church will continue to be hidden behind hoardings as final touches are added in the next few months.
During the renovations, the 1850s facade of the building and historic reading rooms and specialist libraries have been restored and new facilities, including a temperature-controlled repository, have been built.
The objections included everything from the desirability of preserving the historic facade to the need to pump Mozart into stalls at a nearby Thoroughbred farm to calm jittery horses during construction.
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