Materials for the building's exterior were chosen with careful precision.

The building's plans were drawn in the early 1960s, before student activism prompted a concern for safety, but the Fleming Building's narrow windows, all located above the first floor, and fortress-like exterior led to a campus rumor that it was designed to be riot-proof.

On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.

During its conversion into the MSI, the building's exterior was re-cast in limestone to retain its 1893 Beaux Arts look.

The columns, like the exterior walls and façades, are inclined slightly toward the building's interior.

The building's exterior uses Pennsylvania Blue Marble, which, due to the manner in which it was cut, has begun to deteriorate from the exposure to the elements of weak parts of the stone.

The new building's exterior is laced with symbolic images of music.

In 1995, French urban climber, Alain " Spiderman " Robert, using only his bare hands and feet and with no safety devices of any kind, scaled the building's exterior glass and steel wall to the top, almost falling in the process.

The 2003 fire was contained to the building's exterior and the museum suffered minimal damage, primarily cosmetic.

It is distinctly recognizable through its giant movie reel and film strip on the building's exterior.

Ionic columns were then added to both curved walls, giving the extensions an architectural and visual unity that had been lacking and producing the building's exterior as it is today.

The results of this reconstruction can still be seen on the building's exterior today – the dome was rebuilt using Irish Ardbraccan limestone which is noticeably darker than the Portland stone used in the original construction.

1908-10 building's location, set off from the more active center of Yale's campus, lends privacy to Berzelius ' members, and its unadorned largely blank exterior conveys to outsiders the deceptive sense that nothing much happens inside-a strategy arguably more effective at discouraging prying eyes than the unmistakable ' stay out ' message architecturally conveyed by the monumental buildings of others of Yale's societies, such as Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head.

The building's exterior consists of Spanish pink granite with a copper pyramidal top and gold peak.

The Quincy Street view, however, reveals ondulatoires on this studio's exterior curve, which interfere with the building's curve less than the brise-soleil do on the opposite side.

After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders Room exterior ; while most of the building's exterior was designed with stainless steel given a matte finish, the Founders Room and Children's Amphitheater were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels.

In its modern incarnation as the Tate Modern, the building's exterior is featured at the beginning of the premiere episode of Ashes to Ashes.

Another common theme in Brutalist designs is the exposure of the building's functions — ranging from their structure and services to their human use — in the exterior of the building.

The Zeo Crystal guided them to a portal, which takes them deep underground to the heretofore unmentioned Power Chamber, in which the building's exterior matches that of the Command Center.

This building established Rogers's trademark of exposing most of the building's services ( water, heating and ventilation ducts, and stairs ) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered and open for visitors to the centre's art exhibitions.

Scaffolding covers the southeast side of the rotunda ( architecture ) | rotunda during the restoration of the building's exterior.

The building in its present state is stately and pristine, but there are no exterior signs of the building's Jewish past ( such as stars of David ).

Generally, the building's floor space and yards become larger and more elaborate through time, as is the modernisation of exterior construction and facade.

Another trick is to cool the building's thermal mass at night, and then cool the building from the thermal mass during the day.

An anemometer is installed on the tip of the building's mast ; the anemometer sits at 378 m ( 1, 240 ft ) above sea level.

Base isolation is a collection of structural elements of a building that should substantially decouple it from the shaking ground thus protecting the building's integrity and enhancing its seismic performance.

On the opposite side is the " survivor tree ", part of the building's original landscaping that survived the blast and fires that followed it.

All that is left of many of the volumes are tantalizing titles that hint at all the history lost due to the building's destruction.

The building's sides are glass and charcoal-painted steel ; the floor, of brick, is not flush with the ground but sits 10 inches above.

The building's northern aisle is all that remains.

The effect is pronounced on the right side of the building's roof, where a long blue streak is visible.

The building's first phase was designed by British architect Sir Denys Lasdun and is one of his few works outside the UK.

The building's base is approximately.

* The building's façade is covered in crushed quartz, giving the building its pure white color.

* The building's foundation is thick and was the result of a 24-hour continuous concrete pour.

Les Invalides (), officially known as L ' Hôtel national des Invalides ( The National Residence of the Invalids ), is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose.

This is distinct from a material's insulative value, which reduces a building's thermal conductivity, allowing it to be heated or cooled relatively separate from the outside, or even just retain the occupants ' thermal energy longer.

The annexation is to be used for a drug rehabilitation center ; the building's current occupants demand that the hospital find them replacement housing before the building is demolished despite the building being condemned sometime before.

It is usually known as the Royal Society of Arts for brevity ( and on the building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts — see photograph ).

On the RSA building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts words ( see photograph ) are engraved, although its full name is Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Los Angeles SWAT members Jack Traven ( Keanu Reeves ) and Harry Temple ( Jeff Daniels ) are able to sneak inside the shaft and rescue the hostages before the bomber is aware, and then track the bomber to the building's basement.

Much of the building material is exposed in the building's interior.

It is estimated that compared to a concrete framed construction, the timber structure saved the equivalent in carbon production as nine years of the building's operation.