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"stucco" Definitions
  1. a type of plaster that is used for covering ceilings and the outside walls of buildingsTopics Buildingsc2

344 Sentences With "stucco"

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Here one sees beneath the jaded stucco surface of power.
The kitchen has whitewashed stucco walls and ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling is a pastel rainbow of glossy stucco veneziano.
And stucco is used on the "face" of a house.
A lot of Redding houses—I live in a stucco home.
The exterior facade is a combination of stucco and carob wood.
A tidy subdivision of stucco homes is just across the street.
Owners employed stucco, adobe, stone, brick— whatever was handy—to attract guests.
" • Quotation of the day "These were all block and stucco houses — gone.
The 80-year-old white stucco home had hosted generations of officers.
"Well, they didn't have stucco back then," the substitute teacher said derisively.
The textured stucco walls are made from 107,000 square feet of leftover drywall.
They can also cause damage to the structure of plaster and stucco buildings.
The second hotel — this time made of stucco — lasted from 1901 to 1912.
In Mondadori's day, the pink stucco mansion housed a number of famous guests.
Italian influences are evident in the yellow stucco walls and red tile roof.
Outdoor space: The turf-covered back patio is enclosed by low stucco walls.
Alongside the gorgeous Venetian wall mirrors and stucco decorations, Förg's works seemed slight.
The lawn is immaculately manicured, the yellow-stucco front entrance nearly hidden by flowerpots.
INDOORS: The 1927 two-story stucco cottage was updated during the last 10 years.
"These were all block and stucco houses — gone," the former mayor, Tom Bailey, said.
"These were all block and stucco houses — gone," said Tom Bailey, the former mayor.
" Then her eye spotted a roach feeling its way over the stucco wall. "Op!
Side streets are lined with flower-shrouded bungalows, cottages on stilts and stucco villas.
The textured white stucco facade first looked to me like a typical Baronial estate.
On the coffered ceiling, garlands, stars and swoops of stucco harmonize in intricate patterns.
The exterior is part brick, part stucco with half-timbering, characteristic of the style.
Their home is a tile-roofed stucco mansion they bought in the late 1990s.
She moved into his daffodil-colored stucco house, at the base of a cliff.
The echo chamber had stucco walls painted red, with a layer of translucent orange on top—a really crazy paint job—and the stucco was melting and forming sound sculptures for my eyes while I listened to Clarice and Kat play that piece.
They decided not to add insulation behind the exterior walls because it would have meant drilling holes in the hand-applied stucco to blow it in, and the contractor couldn't guarantee that the stucco, which was original to the house, wouldn't be damaged.
Hidden behind a concrete-and-stucco fence, the house recedes to the point of disappearing.
Others are the crevices on stucco walls, a staple of homes built in these parts.
David A. Turpin created the school inside his nondescript stucco home southeast of Los Angeles.
Today, he lives in a small but tidy one-bedroom apartment in a stucco bungalow.
The hacienda is a constellation of single-story, white stucco buildings with fading red-tiled roofs.
This house, a stained stucco structure with a sharply pitched slate roof, was Mr. Greene's home.
Inspectors found damaged stucco and bricks on it, as well as eroded mortar around the masonry.
The building's stucco was beige, the cheap '90s carpet was beige, and the sand was beige.
They sit in stark contrast to the flickering fluorescents and tired beige stucco of old-school retailers.
Outside, the grounds feature beautiful gardens, a charming stucco cottage, a heated pool and a tennis court.
Tapit is brilliant white now, almost ghostlike, and blends in among the eight white stucco stallion barns.
The street was lined with drab stucco apartment buildings, whose uncovered staircases led down to carports below.
As the video begins, a wide-angle lens captures a quiet street lined with neat stucco houses.
On Monday, the street of stucco homes and Halloween skeleton decorations where Mr. Ortiz lived was quiet.
The exterior is conventionally Tudor: timber with stucco infill on the top half, brick on the bottom.
Some stucco consists of lime, sand and water, or Portland cement, which consists of limestone and clay.
We passed an empty pool gated with chipped rods, stucco structures, and patches of dry green grass.
A separate one-bedroom stone-and-stucco guesthouse near the pool includes a bathroom with multiple changing rooms.
Rows of half-finished houses have a magic-beanstalk feel to them, sprouting columns, balustrades and flowery stucco.
But that stucco is built on swamp, and there's a prehistoric element of Orlando that won't be tamed.
An inspection found that a small part of the stucco is damaged; this section has now been removed.
INDOORS: The two-story stucco house was completed in the early 1980s and updated about 20 years ago.
The red-tiled roof, interior courtyard spaces, arched windows and white stucco create a distinct Mission Revival look.
The architecture — flat-roofed houses in white stucco, accented with sea-glass greens and blues — is unmistakably Mediterranean.
Manufacturers say it's ideal for low-rise construction, a product that's stucco-like in appearance and toxin-free.
Located above an alcove were shreds of ornamented stucco, now in a T-shape, now in a circle.
Its builders have scattered gingerbread ornaments on exteriors made of brick, stucco, shingles, clapboards and recycled barn boards.
The stucco bungalow where Orson Welles puffed on his pipe between "Citizen Kane" scenes shimmered in the sun.
The apartment entrance walls are coral red and obsidian black, painted in the local style of stucco veneziano.
Scattered throughout are brick 1960s-era ranches and, of course, those townhouses, in stucco and beige-brick finishes.
INDOORS A frame structure with a stucco exterior and red-tile roof, the house was built in 219.
Intense humidity has obliterated most of the stucco walls, but the archaeologists managed to salvage some fragments for study.
Inhaling the ripe scent of a grapevine on her veranda, she scans the rolling green hills and stucco houses.
INDOORS The front entrance of the stone-and-stucco home takes you into a foyer with large coat closet.
The five-bedroom Paia Inn opened there in 0003 in a two-story, bougainvillea-fringed 1920s-era stucco building.
Its whitewashed stucco was crumbling, and the lack of other outsiders seemed to allow room for more sacred energy.
INDOORS The stucco-covered concrete house has poured-concrete interior walls and floor and an attached one-car garage.
The interior is a contemporary riff on Southwestern tradition, with stucco walls, but an open floor plan and clean lines.
It's the surviving pages of a 20-page book, made of stucco-coated bark paper folded into an accordion shape.
Tyler Barriss, 25, lived with his grandmother in a modest stucco home in the northwest Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth.
Petey lived across the brook from me in a white stucco house overlooking a golf course owned by Wellesley College.
A concrete structure clad in stucco, dark brick and cedar, it was designed by Sanders Pace Architecture of Knoxville, Tenn.
The house itself, with its Florentine facade, pale ocher stucco finish and shuttered French windows, has a Belle Époque feel.
Housing stock includes Tudors, Dutch colonials, Victorians, Cape Cods, ranches and stucco houses built mostly between the 1920s and 1950s.
Unlike many of its gray-brick neighbors, it has a stucco exterior, scored to look like prominent New England brownstone.
Souvenir-hunters pluck pieces of painted stucco decorations from the network of chambers or take away chunks of fallen sandstone.
During rehearsals, the troupe would lean against the walls to rest, leaving fingerprints and sweat in the stucco and plaster.
This house, a sleek contemporary with a stucco exterior and metal accents, is an anomaly, according to the listing agent.
A favorite of nineteenth-century Bavarian contractors, congealed worse is also a great substitute for stucco; plus, it's gluten-free!
Now the area is one of London's richest, lined with elegant stucco houses that are home to bankers, oligarchs and stars.
The couple were arrested after one of the siblings escaped from the family's stucco house in Riverside County and called 911.
A contemporary riff on neo-Classical architecture, it has a symmetrical Dryvit stucco facade, copper trim and a peaked steel roof.
Ms. Karner, who grew up in the Spanish-style stucco house, said part of her "was not surprised" by the discovery.
In the 18 years she had been living in her two-story brown stucco home, fires had never threatened her subdivision.
The three en suite bathrooms are similarly finished, with light turquoise stucco walls, concrete sinks, brass fixtures and walk-in showers.
After a 27133-minute drive, we stopped before a brick bungalow with a red-tile roof and an orange stucco facade.
Along with the casement ribbon windows, these balance the heavy gray stucco facade, creating a rhythmic pattern of solids and voids.
On the modest side of the spectrum is an 1860 stucco workers' house off Main Street ($375,000, with taxes of $6,607).
Round steppingstones lead to a sculptural shelter (cheese holes in the stucco-and-plywood structure pick up on the circle theme).
Alternatively, detached houses, like those along Edgehill and Netherland Avenues, come in Tudor and colonial styles, with stucco and stone finishes.
A wall finished in cedar siding runs from the edge of the driveway to the front door of the stucco house.
From England one can trace the dark polished wood paneling with pilasters and arches, antique mirrors, brass details and stucco ceilings.
"The Italian churches I found were for example decorated with beautiful frescoes, while French churches were decorated with stucco," he said.
With white-stucco walls and red-tile roofs, the striking, early 20th-century houses evoke the Mediterranean, which is no accident.
"colt 28 malt liquor vessel" (fine china) ceramic, stucco and neon 205 #PatrickMartinez A photo posted by @patrick_martinez_studio on Jan 5, 2016 at 8:06pm PST You can't get drunk from stucco, ceramic, and neon, but that frustrating fact doesn't make this new sculpture called colt 45 malt liquor vessel from LA-based artist Patrick Martinez any less refreshing.
Then there's the laptop body itself, which has a stucco feel that's good to grip and also great for keeping dirt off.
In 2007, they moved into in an L-shaped glass and cream-coloured stucco home on a craggy hillside overlooking the Pacific.
"So I had this beautiful white stucco home, and I paid for the house with residuals, which is really cool," he said.
The interior is contemporary and open plan but with hallmarks of traditional regional design, including ponderosa pine ceiling beams and stucco walls.
A steel structure clad in stone, stucco and glass, it was designed by Davis Sprinkle of Sprinkle & Co. Architects in San Antonio.
Aquarius is a more modest structure, a tidy stucco edifice with an enviable location and, for Clara at least, a rich history.
The picture of the Tudor-style house is in Short Hills, N.J, and the two-story stucco house is in Greenwich, Conn.
Many of the concrete and stucco homes had lost their roofs, and fat electrical cables snaked dangerously along the debris-strewn streets.
In 2016, Richard Cavill announced plans to raze the stucco building and put up a gleaming new 13-story mixed-use building.
They lived in a nondescript stucco house in the small, working-class city of Perris, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.
When he first heard about Dennis O'Brien's project, he thought it was stupid: a case study, in ugly stucco, of runaway development.
People often call Spanish-style houses "stucco houses" because of the plaster that is often used to build the homes' exterior walls.
He had recently moved to a cul-de-sac where every house has stucco walls, a ceramic tile roof, and bland xeriscaping.
Painterland was a bland three-story stucco and wood apartment building with seven rooms, with 27-foot ceilings in four large flats.
Excluding $121.2 million in warranty charges mainly related to older stucco homes and including some inventory writedowns, the company earned $1.15 per share.
These temples — often little more than stucco boxes crowned with miniature minarets — are the antithesis of the most famous mosques of the region.
Modern VarietiesToday, Portland cement is quite literally the glue that holds the world together, forming the basis of concrete, mortar, stucco and grout.
It was one of those streaky sunsets you only get in winter, the kind that bounces off the stucco and turns everything orange.
"I was leery of buying a stucco job or a siding job, because I was concerned about what they were hiding," she said.
The hotel restaurant, with stucco walls and Spanish tile flooring, has a communal feeling with long tables and colorful blankets on the seats.
Hot pink stucco houses tumbled down a country road, and a scattering of wire chicken coops backed up against freshly laid brick sidewalks.
The preschool was in a building that, with its white stucco and Spanish tiled roof, looked like an outdated resort in the Mediterranean.
The interior of the house was as I'd predicted—cushy, lime-green carpeting, yellow glass chandelier, gold-patterned wallpaper, and low stucco ceilings.
Frida Kahlo loved hot pink lipstick, the color of crushed hibiscus blossoms, of flor de Jamaica, of bougainvillea vines crawling over stucco walls.
But it was a rare stucco Spanish colonial with three tiny bedrooms that captivated the Burnses, who grew up elsewhere in Bergen County.
The roof, it turned out, needed to be replaced, the exterior needed new stucco and the original plumbing pipes had to be removed.
Mr. DiNardo lived 30 miles south of the farm with his parents in a four-bedroom stucco house with a pool in Bensalem.
Norwalk, California (CNN)Piled high with clothes and junk, a bedroom in this small stucco home looks like it belongs to a hoarder.
The three-level stucco house, which is listed by Luximo's Christie's International Real Estate, has seven bedrooms and seven-and-a-half bathrooms.
Bougainvillea overflowing against deep blue skies or any color stucco wall or in an alley spilling over a fence can make my day.
Just last week, the Lithuanian artist was hard at work painting a giant kid fixing crooked windows on a three-story stucco apartment building.
The stucco-covered club is reportedly anchored by steel beams to the coral foundation of Palm Beach island, enabling it to withstand storms repeatedly.
A stucco structure striped with tall, vertical windows, the house was designed to be light and airy, with play between indoor and outdoor spaces.
Outdated countertops, stucco walls and dreary furnishings plagued the charming one-story abode — and Fletcher and Rodgers didn't waste any time trashing the place.
Anyone who thinks Orlando is a stucco-built town with overly watered lawns and an abundance of drive-through fast food places is right.
The comedian, writer, and actress shared a photo on Instagram of the exterior of a rundown stucco building, and explained its importance to her.
The agents had just what Stephen Craig Paddock was looking for -- a 2,000-square-foot, two-bedroom stucco rambler on a cul-de-sac.
INDOORS: A stucco-clad brick structure attached to a similar house on one side, the house has three full stories and a garden level.
The 11,000-square-foot stucco and brick house features two stories, four bedrooms and a guest suite above the garage, according to Mansion Global.
Isabel Segunda, the bigger of the island's two towns, is a patchwork of gaily painted Spanish Colonial stucco buildings in various stages of dilapidation.
An exterior stucco wall, for example, was meant to look smooth but instead has the look of crumpled paper that has been somewhat flattened.
INDOORS Renovated and expanded in 2001, the stucco-on-masonry home received updated heating, plumbing and electrical systems, as well as a new roof.
I visited one of these Mexican schools in a pretty stucco building, though school wasn't in session, so I couldn't gauge the children's octolingualism.
They ranged from a three-bedroom 260 Tudor listed for $290,27, to a six-bedroom stucco house, built in 2199, listed for $210 million.
Some of the original white stucco remains visible on parts of the temple, built during the 1486-1502 reign of the Aztec emperor Ahuizotl.
The en suite bathroom has russet-colored stucco walls and Mexican tile squares on the vanity top and in the combined tub and shower.
Raphayet, Zaida and their two children move into a grand stucco villa that comes to symbolize both their worldly success and its grotesque absurdity.
Facing the street, the two-story stucco structure he created is largely opaque for privacy, with an entrance courtyard hidden behind a low wall.
Huanca also designed a three-story glass structure that interacts with the height and neo-classical stucco work of the 19th century, former Methodist chapel.
Visas and passports from 10 different countries were found during raids on the nondescript stucco building with the corrugated tin roof, the State Department said.
The nearest shopping is about 15 minutes north by car, with more in Santa Fe. INDOORS: The single-story stucco house was built in 1990.
The first thing you'll notice aren't the roads, which are evenly paved, but the hulking cream stucco structure beyond the roundabout near the airport exit.
From its low-slung, apricot stucco headquarters, a staff of 14 weavers — all women — work on 19th-century Jacquard looms to custom-make each piece.
Chun works out of the third floor of a two-tone stucco building flanked by palm trees, in prosperous Lakewood Ranch, a master-planned community.
Now the headquarters of the Detroit Urban League, the home embodies much of the charm of Tudor designs, with a blend of brick and stucco.
Above the fireplace, framed by a zinc wallcovering, a massive painted stucco relief of an eagle fighting an aquatic beast parallels the theme of war.
The Mother Emanuel I visited has been sitting grandly on Calhoun Street since 1892, its current white-brick-and-stucco facade prominent from blocks away.
CBGB was like a witch's house with its stucco exterior, swinging wooden doors and opaque windows smeared with layers of fliers and wheat-paste residue.
Before him was 105 Bank Street, a cracked white-stucco town house, where an obscure couple named John and Yoko lived between 1971 and 1973.
When I finally arrived, my partner's tears and the smell of burnt stucco let me know that someone had intentionally burnt down my restaurant overnight.
The property is on a quiet residential block in the Pimlico neighborhood, known for its elegant white stucco terraced houses, and is near two leafy squares.
And sometimes it was subtle, like in the way they fully bought into the Southern California American dream, with its peach stucco two-story tract homes.
Clare Minejam, who is a doctor, and Rania, five, and Rayhana, two, waved Moroccan and British flags as the couple stride towards the pink stucco building.
The Metropol's grandeur has been tarnished by time, but it's still just as fascinating, what with all the glass liberty domes, marble fountains, and golden stucco.
The microspines drag against the bumps in the wall and hang on using friction, allowing the drone to perch securely on materials like stucco or cinderblock.
Several employees have taken to changing out of their uniforms before heading out of the white stucco wall that surrounds the clinic to avoid being identified.
Savills The former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, lived at the white stucco-fronted house from 1991 until her death of a stroke aged 87 in 2013.
What a welcome given by the 44-foot-tall stucco snowman that stands along a Minnesota highway, with arms waving even in the middle of summer!
Lohan waxes poetic about Mykonos in a voiceover, while stock footage plays of white stucco balconies and ample bikini-clad butts diving into the turquoise ocean.
Phoebe Hearst also introduced Morgan to her son, the newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, for whom she designed the blocklong white stucco Examiner Building in 1915.
The imposing, white stucco Italianate house on North Broadway, just north of Main Street, was built in 1918 for Madam C.J. Walker, an African-American entrepreneur.
The lower level is decorated as a Mexican-style bar, with stucco-like wall finishes, lounge seating, a fireplace and alcoves for storing wine and spirits.
The stucco buildings comforted me, and I was glad when a gate closed behind us and we headed quickly toward an pink mansion complete with guesthouse.
Its menu offers fresh vegetarian spins on Georgian classics, served in a colorful room of stucco walls and Persian-inspired paintings (lunch for two, 100 lari).
The backyard has a patio with two distinct sitting areas separated by stucco walls, a pool with a connected hot tub and sections of synthetic turf.
These materials remained intact on the top three floors, while the bottom two had long ago been stripped of iron in favor of stucco and granite.
Bertoldo's surviving work is limited to six bronze statuettes, five bronze reliefs, six medals, one polychrome statue, one terracotta frieze, and a series of stucco reliefs.
A mural will be painted along the western facade, on a stucco canvas that stretches 220 feet long, by an artist to be selected in January.
It had fallen on Gregory to raise Barriss, and he still lived with her in a tiny stucco home in the northwest Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth.
Flight attendant who fled security surrenders in suspected cocaine case The beige stucco house, the newest on the block, sits in a community of single-family homes.
Additionally, commonly used building materials found in older houses -- such as stucco, Sheetrock and joint compound, cement pipe and exterior home sliding -- may contain asbestos, Klug said.
"There will be far fewer tourists," she said, standing behind the wooden counter in the lobby of her hotel, with stucco ceilings, antique furniture and old carpets.
We walked through what had clearly been entire neighborhoods of fine homes with stone walls, palm-trunk rafters and intricate geometric designs in stucco around their entryways.
To the left of the staircase in the foyer is a formal living room with a number of original details, including a fireplace and textured stucco walls.
INDOORS This stucco house was designed by the architecture firm leeMundwiler, whose principals named it Cantilever House for the way part of it hangs over the driveway.
But then they paid $1,700 for installation, $500 for a painter to restore the stucco and paint, and $1,600 for an engineering plan required by the city.
Fifty years later, mega hectares of wilderness have been displaced by stucco communities as prissy about lawn maintenance as the golf courses, and Disney attractions, they border.
Mr. Rangr chose inexpensive materials, like a fire-rated stucco for the exterior, and Alaskan yellow cedar for the decks, windows and living room floors and ceiling.
It was once home to a wood and stucco apartment complex built in 1924 which collapsed onto itself in 2000, killing one man and injuring 36 tenants.
The prison was all square lines, tall stucco walls, razor wire, and, in the winter, it was surrounded by bleak open land and a hamlet of houses.
With thick stucco or stone walls and tiny window openings, they are mostly used to store tools — or, perhaps, a cot for naps on hot summer afternoons.
Dar Cherifa bills itself a literary cafe, and has a library for guests to peruse while hanging out amid the riad's meticulously restored tile and stucco work.
With thick stucco or stone walls and tiny window openings, they are mostly used to store tools — or, perhaps, a cot for naps on hot summer afternoons.
One recent Saturday night, a dozen groups of hikers arrived at Wassermühle Wardenburg, a white-stucco restaurant perched beside a pond and topped with a thatched roof.
The area has previously known conflict: Next door is the Clermont condo complex, whose tall, stucco-sided tower drew flak when it was built in the 1980s.
The ceiling apse is outfitted in gilded stucco, and the opulent materials used reflect the spare-no-costs attitude of the Vatican: colorful marbles, stained glass, gilded bronze.
Because it's landmarked, the gallery feels less like an art space and more like a home that happens to have interesting work displayed on its white stucco walls.
They have also rendered their vision in epic proportions, as at Coachella this year, with 31 giant stucco sculptures of imaginary plants painted in their signature pastel style.
The gym's exterior, clad in sunbaked, pale ochre stucco and bordering a vacant lot, is the ostensible subject of another 2016 painting, this one nearly eight feet wide.
In this show you'll find not only Tiepolo's preparatory paintings and drawings, but also vintage photographs of the completed frescoes, which were each embedded in involute stucco molds.
Flanked by a boxy, 17th-century church, crumbly stucco, and brilliant street art, the plaza allows its throngs to catch evening breezes that fend off the Caribbean heat.
Roman-era temples in Syria, museums in Iraq and ancient stucco buildings in medieval Yemeni ports have been marred by wars that have swept the region since 2011.
A neighbor of the DiNardos in Bensalem said Mr. DiNardo's grandfather and father, who goes by Tony, built all of the stucco homes on their cul-de-sac.
The paint textures range from a thick stucco (used mostly for sheep) to a thinned-down Impressionism (thatches of strokes that denote either grassy banks or overflowing water).
According to estate agency Wetherell, the property is known as the Little White House because of its white stucco façade, grand entrance and staircase and proximity to the embassy.
That's where he built a compound he called "Tama-Re," complete with two 40-foot plywood and stucco pyramids and a Sphinx on a former 476-acre game preserve.
The cozy main room is characterized by "warm but subtle tones of the walnut wood, beige leather and Venetian stucco" and features a wooden bookcase illuminated by recessed lighting.
Outside, in the gentle late fall air, Mount Laurel looks like an environment from the Sims—a flat suburban expanse studded with beige stucco big box stores and turnpikes.
Paddock paid $369,022 for the 3,000-square-foot, two-bedroom stucco house on a cul-de-sac in Mesquite, Nevada, a town about 82 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The large family room, which adjoins a smaller, more formal living area off the foyer, has a stucco fireplace flanked by French doors opening to the patio and pool.
A visitor today to this small community of about 22004,214 residents will find among the neat stucco houses and eccentric street art some obvious indications of its watchmaking attachment.
The owners, who bought the home in 2018, did extensive renovations, including giving the house a new stucco facade and adding new floors, bathrooms and tiling throughout the house.
The 10,000-square-foot house sits behind iron gates and a stucco-and-brick arched entryway, on nearly an acre of terraced lawns and tropical gardens with lush vegetation.
East of Chatfield Road is Armour Villa, the oldest and most diverse of the historic districts, with open-porch Victorians, stucco-walled 1930s colonials and the occasional raised ranch.
Some of the buildings have — had — facades with elaborate stone corbels, internal marble staircases and palazzo-style apartments of room after room with four-meter-high stucco-detailed ceilings.
After traveling from Germany with Mr. Maas and his entourage on Friday, the painting was solemnly unveiled at the ceremony in the grandiose Stucco Hall of the Pitti Palace.
INDOORS A planted courtyard leads to the front door of the house, which is clad in stucco and cedar siding and has a mix of metal and green roofs.
Within Chinatown's gridlike layout, you can spot a few examples of the low-rise Italianate brick or white stucco and corniced buildings that predate a devastating fire in 1900.
Outside my vacation condo in Hollywood, I climbed into the old white BMW I'd bought from my mother and headed to my aunt's small stucco home, in South Central.
Push through the heavy front door, and it's instantly L.A.—white stucco walls, palms, gray marble tables, geometric planters, and a host in a tiny-patterned button-up shirt.
After another hour of scenic equine touring, it was time for lunch at the finca, a simple farmhouse near the mountaintop with white stucco walls and dandy blue trim.
The sculptures consist of four geometric forms covered in textured black stucco; each is around the average height of a standing adult and embedded with a single LED light.
The homey old-world scene is set by red and white checked tablecloths, stucco walls dotted with copper pots and pans and, most of all, the friendly staff and owners.
This legacy is evident in the walls of the theater, which feature stucco replicas of Mayan nahual figurines; it even has doors fashioned to look like those of a temple.
Usually it's set in a big, stucco mansion—the woman is wearing heels, the man is the hero: He takes the woman, takes the pleasure, and barely speaks a word.
He grew up in a modest one-storey house with a crumbling stucco facade in what locals say is one of the roughest neighborhoods of the provincial capital, Santa Clara.
In the central Lafayette district of Tunis, dozens of people stood patiently queuing in the Rue de l'Inde primary school in a whitewashed stucco courtyard under sky blue wooden shutters.
These details, along with other artisan-made elements like the stucco, moldings and tile floors, and the quite basic wood chairs, give a sense of being transported back in time.
Moreover, Lautner's progressive architecture stuck out uncomfortably from the neighbors' clapboard and stucco piles ("Everyone thought we were rich," Ms. Maxwell-Smith said), and the place was rife with quirks.
David Milch, the television writer, lives with his wife, Rita Stern Milch, on a peaceful block in Santa Monica, in a cozy stucco bungalow camouflaged by a lush cottage garden.
Home is a room in a motel called the Magic Castle, one of many garishly painted stucco-clad palaces whose names represent either false advertising, honest aspiration or brutal irony.
The exterior features classic Mediterranean characteristics like a red tiled roof, white stucco exterior with ivy clad entry, oversized transom French doors, copper gutters & downspouts and spacious tiled patios & balconies.
The khachkar would have shimmered as light and shadow played on its lace-like surface, making the deep-carved stone appear as opulent as the woodwork and stucco of great palaces.
York declared that his armed compound — which featured two 40-foot plywood and stucco pyramids and a Sphinx — was a sovereign nation and refused to follow local, state and federal laws.
The bungalow had its own pool, behind tall pink stucco walls, with one living wall of succulents in a color scale of oranges, teal, light blues, dense greens, limes, and yellows.
When I entered the dining room one afternoon, my expectations were low: Though the pumpkin-colored stucco walls and tables covered in checkered plastic tablecloths were immaculate, the place was empty.
He and Rankin rent an apartment above the reception desk in the Belmont Hotel, a former stucco motor lodge reborn as a kind of bohemian citadel, with a view of downtown.
Yountville was California's first, established in 1884 on a sprawling, idyllic site that now consists of stucco and red-tile-roof dormitories, a library, a swimming pool and a golf course.
"This is my palace," he said after a recent lunch service at 703nd Street Pizza, the old-school Greek diner on the ground floor of his four-story, white stucco building.
THE ARCHITECTS LEFT the shell of Christiansen's main house mostly intact, restoring its pink stucco facades and laying a new roof of yellow, green and burgundy ceramic tiles made in Morocco.
Then, on your left, you'll see the stucco facade of an apparently anonymous edifice — an ocher two-story rectangle overlooking a simple walled garden and lawn, the lake just beyond them.
The vast costume rental wardrobe, one of the largest collections of vintage clothing in the country, has a three-unit-wide stucco facade airbrushed with murals of ghosts and mythical creatures.
The old British line is still visible here and there, cutting past stucco buildings and eucalyptus trees before disappearing into a tunnel through the chalk cliffs that mark Israel's northern extremity.
Blake's house was a low rectangle of sugary-pink stucco in a tidy gated community called Marrakesh Country Club, which doesn't allow garage sales, so emptying an estate there presents challenges.
The building—which is located in Newark, Ohio, about 6003 miles east of Columbus—is made of clay and stucco; the 80-foot-high handles alone took 18 months to build.
At the leafy Country Club in the east of the capital, two men along with their caddie were playing golf on May 7th across the road from an elegant white stucco mansion.
After picking up our luggage at the hotel, we drove south through the khaki, stucco and mauve Miami suburbs and an Everglades landscape that, from the highway, was a blur of shrub.
On the way back, I came upon a low-slung, '70s-style office building made of tan-brown stucco, with a sign that read, intriguingly, "The Planetary Society," in a swooshy font.
Later he pulls up a photo of himself as a young man standing in front of his apartment building, behind him a stucco wall with a small window covered in security bars.
This structure was expanded in the 1940s and again in the 1990s, but it retains its original Tudor Revival features, including slate roofs, timbered-and-stucco exteriors, arched doorways and fanciful chimneys.
"The missing pieces are important, to show what happened to it," Ms. Lippi said, referring to the new sand-colored stucco that she has treated to look like a 17th-century canvas.
In a neoclassical room, portions of the stucco fell from the ornate barrel-vaulted roof and an ancient Greek sculpture had its legs cut off from the window glass and wooden frame.
Called Wild Bank, the 1907 six-bedroom stucco house with a terra-cotta roof sits on a bluff overlooking Manhasset Bay and has a beach, a deepwater dock and a tennis court.
Inside a bright blue stucco house with a living room filled with children's toys on Monday, Guillén's father and brother alternated between laughter and tears as they reflected on his life and death.
Then for much of the 19th century, it was known for the Regency architecture characterized by wide streets lined with horse chestnut trees and elegant townhouses with stucco facades and wrought-iron balconies.
So this is how I find myself on the longest day of the year outside an anonymous, doorless recording studio in North Hollywood, heat rippling off the industrial stucco expanse of Vineland Blvd.
Tracking a bounty, the Mandalorian crosses a desert ridge and stares down at a stucco compound that could exist in a Spaghetti Western were it not for the alien desperados wandering its grounds.
"These were all block and stucco houses — gone," said Tom Bailey, 235, a former mayor of the city, gesturing to a flat beachside plain riddled with junk piles and a few bent trees.
In 1907, Charles W. Clinton, a later owner who was an architect, expanded it with a pair of wings, clad it in stucco and decorative timber, and replaced the roof shingles with slate.
Size: 2150,2003 square feet Price per square foot: $2200 Indoors: The main entrance to the house is separated from the street by a white stucco wall accented with brick and a wooden gate.
"We will see what happens," said Mr. Justino, 62, who works in the construction machinery business and has lived in Fleetwood since 1986, when he bought a stone-and-stucco house for $250,000.
At the center of a row of elegant yet uniform white stucco townhouses, hers has double front doors painted a rich canary yellow and a rainbow's assortment of flowers in the window planters.
Courier Square (Columbus and Meeting Streets) is a massive complex of residential lofts made to resemble an old brick factory, with an adjoining five-story office building made of white stucco and stone.
The exterior is mostly covered in a soft pink-tinged stucco, with brass plating running along the edges to lend definition, while the top floor is clad in an African hardwood called afzelia.
They say their coatings, which can take the form of paint, plaster or stucco, absorb and release heat to maintain a constant temperature, saving up to 30 percent on heating and cooling costs.
The reason that is, frequently you're in old construction with lots of brick and stucco, and second, there's just a ton of interference because there's so many people stacked up on each other.
And the reason for that is, frequently, you're in old construction with lots of brick and stucco, and second, there's a ton of interference because there's so many people stacked up on each other.
I just wanted to be able to celebrate that, not just showing the dusty stucco Mexico, but some of the new cool architecture, the new feeling, the energy that you have in border towns.
The stadium was first opened in 1957, and its historical facade — adorned with semicolumns, bas-reliefs, sculptures and stucco details in the Stalinist, neoclassical style — was eventually given protected landmark status, surviving multiple renovations.
To some, Toronto's Galleria Mall is a "time warp"—a memory cave made of stucco and yellowed tile, a baseball card vending machine, and run-down rides shaped like speedboats and video game characters.
"She could do any style, castles for Hearst up at Mount Shasta, Italianate, stucco, little cottages and Craftsman buildings," said Lynn Forney McMurray, the daughter of Morgan's longtime secretary, Lillian Forney, and her goddaughter.
There, about 20183 feet below, is the reason: The town was built on a grid of wide streets, and its stucco townhouses, terraced up the side of a hill, have garden spaces in front.
Outdoor space: A set of doors in the dining room lead to a Spanish-tiled patio with space for an outdoor dining table and a low stucco wall that has built-in bench seating.
Opinion MYSORE, India — It's an unseasonably hot winter day in this southern city, and the midmorning sun is turning the crumbling yellow stucco of the 100-year-old City Central Library a shade paler.
I heard Spanish being spoken in front of Ray's building, an eerie artifact of the "dingbat" era of Sun Belt architecture, an aging stucco box perched over the garage where he parked his Mustang.
For years, Germany and Egypt have hotly disputed the rightful location of the stucco-coated, limestone Queen, with Egyptian officials claiming that she left the country illegally and demanding the Neues Museum return her.
If you're painting a stucco wall with all sorts of texture and depth, you need a roller with a thick, deep nap that will work its way into all of those nooks and crannies.
One of its buildings, at 521 West 3453th Street, also in Midtown, was issued a $500 fine in 2017, after inspectors found damaged stucco and bricks, as well as eroded mortar around the masonry.
Every time I visit or walk by the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club, I can't help but think this landmark historical hotel looks as though it's made from pink meringue (sorry, it's stucco).
Bordered by private residences, Virginia Park is an urban experiment, a place where the inhabitants of grand ­stucco-fronted mansions and down-­market apartment buildings can lay claim to the same rose garden and playground.
Amid the strangler figs and oaks dripping with Spanish moss, Suarez added a two-story "Secret Garden," as it is now known, where succulents and cactus flowers bloom in pots built into the stucco walls.
They were not armed, so there was no nuclear detonation, but the conventional explosives in two of the bombs blew up on impact, scattering pulverized plutonium over a patchwork of farm fields and stucco houses.
But the interiors of this one had somehow survived mostly intact, with ornate stucco moldings, marble fireplaces, wooden paneling, wrought-iron stair rails and parquet floors made in the traditional way, without a single nail.
"I lived that," she said one day when I met her at her office in the suburbs of Miami, a one-story stucco house that serves as the headquarters of the Nora Sándigo Children Foundation.
California records show that Mr. Turpin had received state approval to run a private school, the Sandcastle Day School, at the family's home, a one-story stucco house in a subdivision built in recent years.
In 1993, York moved his followers to Eatonton, Georgia where he built a compound with two 40-foot plywood and stucco pyramids and a Sphinx on a former 476-acre game reserve he called Tama-Re.
Beyond the entranceway, though, the show feels less like a library and more like a landscape of totemic ruins: a series of tall, white, stucco-finished columns dot the space and connect from ceiling to floor.
INDOORS: The stucco house, a neat, orderly take on a storybook cottage, was designed by Georgius Young Cannon, a Salt Lake City architect whose designs include renovations to the Beehive House, where Brigham Young once lived.
But, along with 19 other cream, taupe and rust stucco houses that cradle the landscaped playgrounds here, it is actually something else: a large-scale testing ground for an energy system of the very near future.
Up the road in Benton City, high above the modest stucco bungalows that skirt the base of Red Mountain, is the glamorous Col Solare, a joint effort of the Italian wine giant Marchesi Antinori and Ste.
The custom-built, concrete-and-stucco structure was designed by Roger Valerio Architecture, a prominent local firm, and received national recognition when it became a Cemex Building Award finalist in 24, the year it was completed.
A stucco artist named Bortolo Cabianca embellished the panels with frames and cherubs, many of which lost their penises when the villa was sold to the parish church in the 1950s and used as a kindergarten.
Their mother said she only recently repaired the broken windows and smashed stucco on their house, caused by thousands of pucks sailing high and wide of the net that the boys set up in their carport.
In the months I lived there with her, I walked with my dog through the manicured neighborhoods, passing the gated communities in Sunset Hills, returning to her community where all the stucco houses look exactly the same.
It was a two-story white stucco bungalow with a red tiled roof, Venetian blinds, a mowed lawn, a paved driveway and carport, a front door that wasn't used, a guest bedroom downstairs, and three bedrooms upstairs.
The work of Italian artists, including the architect Sebastiano Serlio and the master woodcarver Francesco Scibec da Carpi, the Galerie François I combines masterly frescoes, life-size stucco figures, elaborate wainscoting, delicate painting and gold leaf detailing.
"I know that no parent in my neighborhood is going to be opening the door for anyone doing a survey," said Mr. Morio, 32, a stucco plasterer helping to erect a multimillion-dollar home in Los Angeles.
Each of the 16 sculptures, made from a mix of clay, stucco, fingernail polish, and perfume, highlights various figures of yore, some with overt queer identities, many without — from the goddess Freyja to the French scholar Héloïse.
Size: 21126,025 square feet Price per square foot: $89 Indoors: Stucco walls and ceilings and hardwood floors and molding lend character to the interiors, which are notable for their pointed archways edged in rough, contrasting-color plaster.
Size: 28530,398 square feet Price per square foot: $397 Indoors: One passes through gates that remain from the McCormick estate (along with the original, functioning lampposts) to approach this gabled brick-and-stucco house with timber trim.
But it also has something to do with how the town has chosen to define itself: A self-consciously Alpine aesthetic dominates here, complete with snug, peak-roofed cottages, their white stucco facades adorned with wooden latticework.
"This was the leap from classical design to modernism; from the age of walnut to the age of celluloid; from the America of brick-and-iron cities to the America of stucco-and-glass suburbs," Port writes.
Those beautiful views were actually made up of the typical markers of Southern California suburbia — miles of stucco tract housing, taco shops, lifted trucks, and garage kickbacks where Bud Light in a can is the drink of choice.
The 1928 house, built as a weekend getaway for a wealthy ranching family, features many of the details that can be spotted in nearly all of Keaton's homes: colorful Spanish tiles, wrought-iron railings, and white stucco walls.
The ocean-front lot has an 8,000-square-foot stucco mansion with seven bedrooms, and eight full bathrooms, along with a swimming pool, said broker Ed Petrie of Compass, who declined further comment because of a confidentiality agreement.
A new book, "Käthe Kollwitz: The Sculptures — Catalogue Raisonné (Part One)" (Hirmer), by Annette Seeler, documents Ms. Kollwitz's work in bronze, zinc, plaster, stucco and stone, including tableaus of fatherless children and of female mourners with fists skyward.
The story is too good to be true, but, supposedly, years later, during a trip to Florida he was so repelled by the cookie-cutter pink stucco Mediterranean Revival mansions that he exclaimed: "I shot the wrong architect."
"To make the stucco they used to cover the buildings and pave the roads, they needed charcoal, so imagine how many trees they needed," she said as we looked down into the reservoir that was now a cave.
Instead of the traditional beige- or gray-painted stucco cladding of the local vernacular, the exterior of the three-story apartment building is covered entirely by aluminum and steel panels that open and close hydraulically, like massive petals.
The site's fabric posters adhere to (and can be peeled off) smooth surfaces such as untextured walls, glass, ceilings, tile and finished wood surfaces (avoid surfaces like stucco, concrete blocks, brick, unfinished wood, canvas or freshly painted walls).
Whipped by strong winds, the flames quickly spread to nearby stores, a popular coffee shop and several apartments and then burned its way through the beloved Sag Harbor cinema with its sleek stucco facade and iconic neon sign.
They awoke on Wednesday shocked to find that their neighbor, a man who liked to tinker with his motorcycle in front of his neat beige stucco house, had been accused of being one of America's most notorious serial rapists.
But Watch Dogs 2's San Francisco is, like the city, a smorgasbord of styles, from the modern glass behemoths in Silicon Valley to the stucco of Palo Alto to the row homes in the heart of San Fran.
The seller Ronald Stasny told the Journal that before putting the ranch on the market, he put "millions" into renovating the gray stucco, four-bedroom home by putting a spa into the bathroom and remodeling the kitchen and porch.
The nearly 15,000-square-foot, 26-room chalky rose stucco villa that he visits at least a dozen times a year — far more than any of his other vacation homes — stands on a slight rise overlooking 19853 groomed acres.
The eye-catching white stucco spikes and balconies of the building (there's a hotel attached) look almost Grecian standing out against the water, and the museum stays open until the spectacular sunset over the sea is finished each day.
WALK after dark past some of the immaculately maintained white stucco houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and automatic security lights all click on at the same time: a sign that many of their owners are absent.
The key to the design is the use of interchangeable adhesives on the drone's base: microspines for digging into rough materials like stucco, carpet, or rubble, and ridged silicone (inspired by the morphology of gecko feet) for grabbing onto glass.
Entering the whitewashed stucco interior, Scully's "Opulent Ascension" (2019), a ten-meter-tall sculpture constructed of narrow, vividly colored horizontal bands, rises under the great dome over the crossing, midway between the entrance and the high altar, lit from above.
Authorities have said the ordeal came to an end when one of the children, a 17-year-old girl, crawled out of their brown stucco-and-stone house through a window and called 911 to report the alleged torture and imprisonment.
In addition to the castle's fortifications — including a stone keep with 10-foot walls largely intact — an eminently comfortable, early-19th-century cream stucco Regency house stood within the bailey wall, with long views down to the serene estuary below.
By 23:2111 PM, the scent of oozing Cheddar and 22015s country tunes on an 8-track player waft from the doorway of a stucco building on a silent residential street that's a five-minute walk from the Pizza Foundation.
Westchester | 4 bedrooms, 2 baths A 95-year-old, semidetached, stucco-sided 223,711-square-foot house with a fireplace in the living room, a kitchen with a tile backsplash and a formal dining room, on about a tenth of an acre.
Technically, it's all a collage: The figure is ink on paper, mounted on wood; the machete's knobby handle, which protrudes from the piece's surface, is fluid acrylic mixed with stucco; and the bed's drapery is colored paper marked with powdered charcoal.
The architects added expanses of glass for taking in the views, balanced with enough wall space for displaying art, and kept the material palette to a minimum: polished concrete floors, Carrara marble counters, more stucco in the showers and white paint.
London Wall, which bought the mansion for 9.5 million pounds about three years ago, is planning to put the stucco-fronted property on the market in the next two weeks after converting it from multiple flats into a single residence.
His stucco expert was a Venetian named Eugenio De Luigi, who created the satiny finish by applying the plaster with tiny spatulas, not much bigger than a butter knife, a labor-intensive process that could take days to complete one wall.
As in previous shows by Ms. Harrison, bulky, contorted forms are pigmented with low-gloss paint that looks like stucco, and then equipped with strange tackle: a soccer ball, a synthetic wig, an image of George Washington or Marilyn Monroe.
Previously known as the Soldiers' Home and nowadays referred to as President Lincoln's Cottage, after its most illustrious occupant, the stucco villa sits on a 221-acre tract that, since the 21877s, has served as a retirement community for war veterans.
From the outside, it resembled "an igloo made of stucco," writes T's arts editor, M.H. Miller, but inside, "the artist had planned for a number of revelations," among them colored-glass windows that would bend the light in varying ways.
On the walls, digital frames display photographs of abandoned buildings' interiors: a clothesline, the elegant curve of a marble staircase, stained glass, the diamond blur of a wire fence in the foreground, two abandoned wine bottles, lanterns, and an elaborate stucco ceiling.
After handing over the keys to the White House to President Trump on Friday, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama retreated to this stunning 11,000-square-foot stucco home in the Palm Springs area of Southern California for a little time off.
The industrial arts exhibit influenced a wave of architects to deviate from the formal Beaux-Arts style popular at the time to a style that was punctuated by features like colorful terra cotta, stucco, decorative crowns, zigzags and flat roofs with parapets.
COST $29,357 a year in taxes BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate _____ 27 Chelsea Drive, Livingston 13 WEEKS on the market $2,349,000 list price 33% BELOW list price SIZE 5 bedrooms; 5 full and 2 half-baths DETAILS A stucco contemporary with an elevator.
Long Island | 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths A 78-year-old, 1,583-square foot, stucco-sided, Tudor-style house that has a living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room, and a kitchen with cherry cabinets, on about a tenth of an acre.
Fritz Blakolmer, an expert on Aegean art at the University of Vienna, argues that the seal stone is a miniature copy of a much larger original, probably a stucco-embellished wall painting like those found at the Palace of Knossos on Crete.
Fifteen hundred years ago, kings and priests would have performed their ceremonies here — coronations, perhaps, or sacrifices, though no one knows for sure — looking out over a city of 50,000 people with stucco-paved roads, called sakbe, radiating out from its center.
The Italian Renaissance Revival villa that houses the Peace Gardens is sandwiched between a Polish shrine to Pope St. John Paul II and a low-slung stucco apartment block that looks like the scene of a murder in a 153s noir film.
Everyone I spoke with said they never thought their laid-back suburb — with its quiet neighborhoods of ranch houses and its stucco strip malls — would be the site of a school shooting like the ones they'd seen so many times on the news.
The next thing he saw was the hospital, a big clean white stucco box of a building that had secondary boxes attached to it, a succession of them lined up like children's blocks all the way out into the parking lot in back.
The 18 stucco-walled suites and villas were also renovated — but the décor (spare but charming, with vintage botanical prints, rattan furniture and floral-patterned textiles) still feels wonderfully retro — and the Jareckis are helping to restore the damaged coral reef just offshore.
Nine miles north, clad in a modest stucco, is the second building—the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Centre, where migrants who have been released from detention can rest, shower, change clothes and have a hot meal before their onward journey further into the United States.
Ms. Diaz said she and her son and daughter, Eduardo, 17, and Monic, 12, have been unnerved by the gunshots, ambulance sirens and yells of drunks that animate the night around their blue stucco home in northeast Las Vegas, perpetually strung with Christmas lights.
In his otherworldly ceramic sculptures, which are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, pastel stucco planes converge with glossy half-moon shapes, suggesting animal tails, chewed-up wads of gum, bare tree limbs, erect genitalia or excrement — sometimes all at once.
The 6,577-square-foot, white-stucco house was built in 1970 in traditional Spanish finca style around an older structure that dates to 1790 and is thought to have been a monastery, said Inge Van Knippenberg, an agent with Prestige Properties, which has the listing.
But the district, the Cities of London and Westminster, with its rows of white stucco townhouses and crowded housing projects, may now become a parable on the left for why Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a commanding position less than two weeks before the election.
The main house has a stucco-and-glass exterior topped by a metal roof with a large overhang in front, which allows sunlight inside in the winter (where it heats a concrete floor equipped with a radiant heating system) but provides shade in the summer.
International Real Estate 2500 Photos View Slide Show ' A RIVERFRONT HOUSE NEAR DOWNTOWN CALGARY $216 MILLION This two-story, stone-and-stucco house is in the established Elbow Park neighborhood of Calgary, the largest city in Alberta Province, Canada, with a population of 2500 million.

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