Name: Why glass towers are bad...
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Description: and they are choking our cities and killing off public space. We tend to think of a facade as being like makeup, a decorative layer applied at the end to a building that's effectively complete. But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep. Let me give you an example

Jack Canfield

When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

American Author

Sam Taylor-Johnson

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

English Director

Remy Ma

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

American Musician

Irving Penn

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

American Photographer

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

American Writer

Lionel Richie

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

Jeff Gutt

I think the most important thing is not trying to fake anything, 'cause I think people can see right through that - they can always see through a facade.

Nigel Barker

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

English Photographer

Bryan Callen

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

American Actor

Eva Green

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

French Actress

Often refers to the main or front entrance of a building, designed to impress.

Architectural Focus

Can indicate a building's importance or heritage in a community.

Cultural Significance

Describes the visual appeal or design aspects of a building's exterior.

Aesthetic Appeal

Used when someone hides their true emotions or thoughts.

Emotional Disguise

Might aim to make a good impression or conform to social expectations.

Social Impressions

Can be a defense to hide vulnerabilities or insecurities.

Protection Mechanism

 and they are choking our cities and killing off public space. We tend to think of a facade as being like makeup, a decorative layer applied at the end to a building that's effectively complete. But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep. Let me give you an example

Why glass towers are bad...

 and, in fact, it is seeking protection from the sun. We first proved that all apartments would have sufficient daylight through the year. We then went on to optimize the glazing of the facades to minimize the energy consumption of the building.

Why great architecture...

 It's not a big deal to add a second foil in the production process, but then the facade element contains the solar cell and can produce electricity. Besides looking nice, these integrated solar cells come along with two more important benefits.

A printable, flexible,...

 So if you go back into the parking, into the corridors, it's almost like traveling into a parallel universe from cars and colors, into this sort of south-facing urban oasis. The wood of your apartment continues outside becoming the facades.

Bjarke Ingels: 3...

 devices the life cycle is 10 years okay then we can put these kinds of devices container move into your house through the facade change nowaday modern cities interior bodies just like using refrigerator mix with the washing

The new generation of...

 architects love to hate it a one redeeming feature is its lifted up off the ground and it's got this void and it's God an empty core kind of in the spirit and that facade very much corporate and federal style and around

A giant bubble for...

 Venus is known for its exceptional brightness in the night sky. But behind this facade is a world of storms and infernos unlike anywhere else in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun,

Venus 101 PIPE National...

 of historical more legitimate claim to the land and the water and the space it does you know but but there's a funny thing that I noticed in Cairo and that is that on the facade of the Cairo Museum

The Lost Kingdom of...

 that we don't fit inside our boxes, either. And the truth is that nobody actually fits in a box, because they don't exist. This binary, this false male-female facade is something we constructed,

The way we think about...

 facade that I'm I'm actually gonna be able to be able to get out of this and I could be facing years my life death like cuckoo

Facade

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