File:Basilica_di_San_Pietro_in_Vaticano_September_2015-1a.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Also known as exterior, facade, frontage, elevation, aspect
thumb|Carlo Maderno's monumental façade of [[St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City]] thumb|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.]] A façade or facade (; ) is the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French (), which means "frontage" or "face".
A façade is the front exterior wall or "face" of a building, derived from the French word meaning "frontage." It matters because it's often the most visible and architecturally prominent part of a structure, shaping how people perceive and experience the building.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
Show 4 more facts
- described at URL
- web.archive.org/web/20230624225034/https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/69712/7b787195604bf41371d39474aa62df5d/data/bbs-hr-fassaden-08-04.pdf
- Commons category
- Facades
- topic's main category
- Category:Façades
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (16)
Available in 62 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Aragonese
- Armenian
- Asturian
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Basque
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
Show 43 more
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Galician
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Ido
- Kazakh
- Latvian
- Limburgish
- Lithuanian
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian
- Malay
- nds_nl
- Nederlands
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Polski
- Romanian
- Scots
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- simple
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tatar
- Tiếng Việt
- Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Welsh
- Wu Chinese
- Yakut
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0