New Art Deco storefronts are replacing the familiar traditional white-column facades, and $47 million was spent on advertising this year, which has helped increase sales significantly, Mr. Kathwari said.

About 12 percent of urban funeral homes are now owned by chains, a change that remains hidden behind familiar local facades.

A bigger building, technologically wired for the new era of policing and with luxuries like air-conditioning, was built and the familiar facade restored.

Walking up to a Codman country house, we may come upon a facade familiar to us (though not precisely copied) from the plates of an English 18th-century compilation called the "Vitruvius Britannicus."

Ahead, St. Jude's was partially lit, and close by stood the Black Swan, with its familiar timber-and-whitewash facade and sagging roof.

As architecture, they are among the city's most familiar facades.

It had taken Annie, an outsider, to show her that behind the familiar facades one saw through one's windshield lurked some fascinating history.

From the box seats to the grandstands to the bleachers that curve down from the familiar Gothic facade of the roof.

The station was designed by Leslie Green and has his familiar facade of ox-blood faience with four round arched windows.

Spotting a familiar facade on Greenwich, he fumbled in his breast pocket and found the creased color snapshot Elouette had sent him the previous Christmas.