The design of these facades is very striking and unlike that of any other building in the world.
Some of the houses have traces of paintings on their facades.
A wealth of earlier building history is hidden beneath Georgian facades.
On occasions of festivals or pageants the balconies, the bridges, the boats, and even the facades of the houses, were hung with rich Eastern carpets or patterned textiles in gold and coloured silk.
Even his classical facades, to a purist, showed inattention to detail.
