A façade or facade is the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French façade, which means "frontage" or "face".
Carlo Maderno's monumental façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City
The façade of the Panthéon in Paris illuminated at night on 27 May 2015 for the admittance of Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay to the mausoleum
Façade of a 1st-century CE Roman domus in Pompeii, Italy
Part of the Central University Library of Bucharest (Romania)
Facadism or façadism is the architectural and construction practice where the facade of a building is designed or constructed separately from the rest of a building, or when only the facade of a build
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In the early 1920s, the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank tore down its head office, the Sweerts-Sporck Palace [cs] in Prague, and had it rebuilt behind the preserved façade on a design by architect Josef Gočár, visible in the background
An early example of facadism. The Old Commerce building at the University of Melbourne is the relocated facade of a Collins Street bank which was superimposed on the front of a "new" campus building in the 1930s.
The Olderfleet buildings on Collins Street, Melbourne were preserved up to 10 metres with a new heritage-sensitive tower design rising behind.
An entire Victorian era streetscape in Brisbane is preserved at the Uptown.