principal facade

principal façade

The architectural front of a building, often distinguished from the other faces by the use of better materials and greater elaboration of architectural or ornamental details; usually faces a street, but occasionally faces a mews or court.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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After following this path some way toward the main road to Paris, they came to another iron gate which led to the principal facade of the mysterious dwelling.
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On the principal facade, Sussex brick in a Flemish bond frames inlaid glazed terracotta, which recedes deeper still as a ribbed screen wall returns to form a generous sheltered porch.
In the company of friends: this is not a ubiquitous art space. Closer in nature to the Englishness of the Soane Museum and Kettle's Yard, Sandy Wilson and Kentish & Long have created a gallery that serves Modernism's Other Tradition
The unsafe rear elevation was removed, along with internal walls and floors, so the new building sits partially enclosed by the massive stone carapace of the remaining principal facade which has been cleaned of accumulated grime and restored.
College remodelling: This transformation of a former Victorian school into a modern apartment block preserves a local landmark and adapts the building's historic fabric to a bold new use
Here, the rotation of the church, the hidden position of the principal facade (and the purposeful geometrical misalignment with the projected siting of the future parochial school and priest's house), engender a contrast between the informal topographical structure of the surrounding city, and the more established patterns of an inherited monumental and symbolic language.
Ritual modification
An external gallery access to all floors, linked by other, straight staircases, runs across the principal facade, which faces east.
Bergerac veils
The building uses LED lighting with efficient controls, integrates high-efficiency thermal wheels, and uses variable speed pumping, while all principal facade materials were sourced from the local area to accommodate the regional environment.
LOM Architecture completes energy efficient bank project in Muscat
Previously having occupied the length of the urban block, all that remained of the 19th century former Turks' Barracks was a portion of the main entrance, which is now the Turkentor's principal facade. (Access is, however, through a rear vestibule flanked by a pair of smaller entrances.)
201 Turkentor
The principal facade reveals the operation of the building's section.
171 Helmond City library
These triple-height planted window boxes transform the principal facade into a glass greenhouse wall.
Shigeru Ban: Swatch headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
The form is essentially a response to the challenging topography - the difference in levels between a peripheral road and an adjoining park establishes the strong front-to-back configuration of the two principal facades. The changes in level also mean that most of the bulky volume of the internal arena is absorbed underground.
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