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Cluj-Napoca Hintz House

The classicist façade dates back to the 1820s; the ground-floor and the basement however were built in the Renaissance era.


2 Columbus Circle

May 2005 – Nicolai Ouroussoff, chief architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote, "Representing a pivotal moment in architecture's eventual turn from mainstream Modernism, the Stone building's modest scale and concave facade are a gentle counterpoint to the new Time Warner Center's bland gigantism.

2003 Santa Fe flood

On 30 January 2004, nine months after the flood and under the administration of Jorge Obeid, a demonstration asking for government assistance to those affected by the flood ended with the burning of the government house's facade and several offices destroyed.

Acolman

To the back of the atrium area is the main church, with its rose/tan Plateresque facade reminiscent of the Colegiata de Santa María in Calatayud, Spain.

Alessandro Galilei

Galilei designed the façade of the main block of Castletown, the grandest Palladian house in Ireland, but returned to Italy in 1719 and was not associated with the actual construction of the house, which was begun in 1722 and carried through by the young Anglo-Irish architect Edward Lovett Pearce, who met Galilei in Florence while he was making drawings of Palladio's villa on his tour of Italy.

Amsterdam School

In German Brick Expressionism important expressionist buildings are excluded, such as the famous Einstein Tower in Potsdam by Erich Mendelsohn (white plaster) and the Philharmonie in Berlin by Hans Scharoun (yellow facade).

Architecture of Ilfracombe

The street facade, built in 1884 to designs by W H Gould, of the former Congregationalist Church is now 'The Lantern' community center, home of the Ilfracombe Farmers' Market.

Baltimore City Circuit Courthouses

Granite, quarried from Woodstock, Maryland, wraps the basement level and provides a solid base for the white marble-six story courthouse facade.

Baltiysky railway station

A glass panel on the façade still features the original clock, designed by Pavel Bure, a celebrated watchmaker to the tsar and the ice-hockey players' ancestor.

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

On a commission from Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, a local textile merchant, Leone Battista Alberti designed the upper part of the inlaid black and white marble facade of the church (1456–1470).

Bayambang, Pangasinan

The Church had 2-level Renaissance facade (with 6 ionic columns on pedestals running the whole height of the lower level).

Bernardo Rossellino

In 1433, Bernardo is recorded as being in Arezzo, employed by the Fraternita di Santa Maria della Misericordia to complete the facade of the Misericordia's headquarters.

Best Products

In the 1970s, Best Products contracted with James Wines’ "Sculpture in the Environment" (SITE) architecture firm to design nine highly unorthodox retail facilities, notably a tongue-in-cheek structure called the "Indeterminate Facade" in Houston, Texas with a severely distressed facade.

Birthplace of Alexander VI

From the original house where was born the Pope Alexander VI it's preserved the façade, with wide dovelaje door and inside a flattened arch of ionic columns.

Bishopsgate

--(Weinreb and Hibbert 1983: 127)--> The 17th century facade of Sir Paul Pindar's House, demolished to make way for Liverpool Street railway station in 1890, on Bishopsgate was also preserved and can now be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Bullock-Clifton House

In 1873, the Federal facade was removed along with the eastern portion of the house when the signature Italianate/Eastlake facade was built facing east towards the Bardstown Turnpike, which was by this time the focal point of the area.

Bundeswehr Military History Museum

Libeskind added a transparent arrowhead to the façade of the building, creating an outwardly visible expression of innovation.

Calea Victoriei

It was also long home to the Constantin Tănase Revue Theatre (as of 2006, relocated to the Lipscani district), and was the site of the old Romanian National Theater just north of Palatul Telefoanelor; the departed theatre's façade is replicated by the front of the Bucharest Novotel that opened in summer 2006.

Calheta de Nesquim

In 1948, new bells and a clock were added to the front facade, along with images of Santa Filomena and Santa Teresinha, due to the patronage of Lourenço Oliveira (a U.S. emigrant and former resident).

Candoro Marble Works

The building's facade features a hand-carved cartouche and floral motif and a wrought-iron door crafted by Philadelphia master blacksmith Samuel Yellin (1885–1940).

Carlo Giuseppe Merlo

He helped design the façade for the parochial church of S. Andrea Apostolo of Pioltello.

Carolina Rifles Armory

, Charleston, South Carolina, was a late 19th-century headquarters for a semi-private military group, but today only the façade remains, facing an annex for the Charleston Library Society.

Casa Cogollo

The constraints posed by a narrow space and the impossibility of opening windows at the centre of the piano nobile (because of an existing fireplace and its flue) induced Palladio to emphasise the façade’s central axis, by realising a structure with a ground floor arch flanked by engaged columns, and on the upper storey a tabernacle frame for a fresco by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo.

Château d'Issy

The sculptor Auguste Rodin repurchased the pediment of the garden façade, as well as the avant-corps columns; he set up these pieces at his property of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).

Church of San Francisco, Castro

The interiors are made of Rauli Beech and olivillo; however the facade, roof and exterior lining are sheets of galvanized iron.

Danube University Krems

The design for the new buildings is the creation of Architekt Dietmar Feichtinger, who places a new facade of steel, glass and aluminium opposite the industrial building from the previous century.

Embassy of France, Copenhagen

In 1769, the palace was acquired by Otto Thott, who had the facade towards modernized to the design of Nicolas-Henri Jardin in 1763–64.

Ferdinand Faivre

These included decorative groups for the Zurich Bank, for the Cairo Museum, the facade of the Royal Automobile Club in London and many buildings in Paris; among the latter was a figure of Abundance for the Ritz and the 1906 bas reliefs of the seasons for Madame Hériot's town-house.

Flamboyant

Église Notre-Dame, Louviers, Normandy, France (especially the south nave façade and porch)

Great Synagogue, Jasło

The Forest Hill Jewish Centre has recently announced plans to rebuild the façade of the Jasło Synagogue as the façade of its new building on Spadina Road in Toronto, Canada.

H. T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Work Building

The front facade is sheathed in decorative silver and black painted worked sheet metal in an Edwardian Classicism style.

Harbor Hill

White collaborated closely with Clarence Mackay's wife, Katharine Duer Mackay (1880–1930), and with her approval, based the main façade of Harbor Hill upon that of François Mansart's Château de Maisons of 1642, using a mix of other influences to finish the overall design.

Henry Phipps House

The entire marble facade was however stripped and shipped off to a field in Brookville, New York.

Indiana Limestone

New Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively uses Indiana limestone paneling on its exterior facade.

J. P. McCaskey High School

While the main building was subsequently extended, the original façade, lobby, and auditorium are set in Art Deco style.

Jane's Minstrels

Since the ensemble's beginning, Manning has championed Pierrot Lunaire and a number of twentieth century works influenced by it, ranging from Walton's Facade to Miss Donnithorne's Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies.

KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development

“KindHearts is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, which attempted to mask their support for terrorism behind the facade of charitable giving,” said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

La Gaîté Lyrique

The centre is on the site of the former Théâtre de la Gaîté, incorporating the facade, entrance and foyer of the original theatre.

Marton Varo

The facade of the Ave Maria Oratory church features Váró's 30-foot-tall sculpture of the Annunciation, depicting the Archangel Gabriel greeting the Virgin Mary with the words "Ave Maria" (Hail Mary), with his smaller depiction of Christ the Good Shepherd featured inside.

Maximilianeum

Due to statical problems the construction was only completed in 1874 and the facade of the Maximilianeum which was originally planned also in neo-Gothic style had to be altered in renaissance style under the influence of Gottfried Semper.

Neptune Pool

The pool's main axis centerpiece and north terminus is the façade of an actual Ancient Roman temple that William Randolph Hearst had purchased in Europe and imported to San Simeon.

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

Along the way, he stopped to work on the ornamental façade of the Château de la Mosson at Juvignac, near Montpellier, spending 18 months on the project.

Palace of the Fans

Designed in a neo-classic style reminiscent of Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Palace featured an extravagant facade, with 22 hand-carved Corinthian columns with elaborate details at the top, and opera-style private boxes in front of the covered grandstand.

Paul Pindar

Its façade was preserved and can now be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Robert Samut

On 26 May 1968 Dr. Giorgio Borg Olivier, then Prime Minister of Independent Malta, in the presence of the Governor General and Lady Dorman, of His Grace Mgr Michael Gonzi, and many other personalities, unveiled a marble plaque on the façade of the Lion House to commemorate the birthplace of Prof. Samut.

San Pietro, Perugia

The monastery is preceded by a 15th-century gate designed by Agostino di Duccio that leads to a monumental facade with three arcades, designed around 1614 by the Perugine architect Valentino Martelli: the first cloister is also by Martelli, with the second floor completed by Lorenzo Petrozzi.

Tuscan order

Giorgio Vasari made a valid argument for this claim by reference to il Cronaca's graduated rustication on the facade of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.

Velika Nedelja

Some Romanesque sculpture is preserved on the facade and the interior of the church.

Walden United Methodist Church

The stone belt courses amid the red brick facade and understated polychromy are also more distinctly High Victorian Gothic, showing the influence of John Ruskin's aesthetic theories and the Venetian Gothic.


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