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A façade or facade ( / f ə ˈ s ɑː d / ; ) is generally the front part or exterior of a building . It is a loanword from the French façade ( pronounced [fasad] ), which means " frontage " or " face ".

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26-561: Wells Fargo Plaza may refer to: Wells Fargo Plaza (Billings) , Montana Wells Fargo Plaza (Bloomington) , Minnesota Wells Fargo Plaza (El Paso) , Texas Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston) , Texas Wells Fargo Plaza (Phoenix) , Arizona Wells Fargo Plaza (San Diego) , California Wells Fargo Plaza (Tacoma) , Washington See also [ edit ] Wells Fargo Building (disambiguation) Wells Fargo Center (disambiguation) Wells Fargo Tower (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

52-587: A Billings landmark, underwent a major 30 million dollar renovation and was re-opened in March 2013 as a four star hotel. In 1942 it replaced the original 1902 Hotel which burned down in 1940.The Northern Hotel has two mechanical floors above the main roof deck that are not parapet if included the floor count of this building is 12. [REDACTED] 6= Rocky Plaza 129 (39) 10 1982 Residential Residential condominiums located in MidTown, it

78-525: A Georgian building, but the appearance is only skin deep and some of the interior rooms still have Jacobean plasterwork ceilings. This new construction has happened also in other places: in Santiago de Compostela the three-metre-deep Casa do Cabido was built to match the architectural order of the square, and the main Churrigueresque façade of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral , facing

104-608: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wells Fargo Plaza (Billings) (Redirected from Wells Fargo Plaza (Billings) ) [REDACTED] Billings skyline with the Beartooth Mountains in the background Rank Name Height ft (m) Floors Year Primary Purpose Notes Image 1 First Interstate Center 272 (83) 20 1985 Office The First Interstate Center

130-537: Is the location of the office of the Clerk of District Court, which provides administrative functions for the 13th Judicial District Court of Montana . [REDACTED] 9 US Bank Tower 104 (32) 8 1956 Office Bank and office building [REDACTED] 10 The Terrace 11 1972 Residential [REDACTED] References [ edit ] ^ "First Interstate Center" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from

156-713: Is the tallest building in Billings and Montana, and is the First Interstate Bank Corporate Headquarters. It is located in the Transwestern Plaza in downtown Billings. The Transwestern Plaza is a complex consisting of four office towers with a total of 35 floors, it is the largest commercial development in Montana. [REDACTED] 2 Doubletree by Hilton Billings 256 (78) 22 1980 Hotel It

182-419: Is the tallest building outside of downtown Billings. It is the tallest residential complex in the city. [REDACTED] 6= Sage Tower 129 (39) 10 1974 Residential Sage Tower is an 88-unit retirement complex. [REDACTED] 7 Liberal Arts Building 126 (38) 8 1972 Office MSU-Billings education building. It is the tallest education building in

208-598: Is the tallest hotel in Montana . [REDACTED] 3 Wells Fargo Plaza 176 (54) 14 1977 Office It opened in 1977 as First Northwestern Bank, which became known as Norwest Bank in 1983, and then the name was changed to Wells Fargo Plaza in 2000 after Wells Fargo merged with Norwest Bank. It is now the third tallest building in Billings and Montana, and is used primarily for office space. [REDACTED] 4 Cereal Food Processor Inc Building 141 (43) 12 1917 Office It

234-487: Is typically reached within minutes of the start of a fire. Fire stops for such building joints can be qualified, too. Putting fire sprinkler systems on each floor has a profoundly positive effect on the fire safety of buildings with curtain walls. The extended use of new materials, like polymers , resulted in an increase of high-rise building façade fires over the past few years, since they are more flammable than traditional materials. Some building codes also limit

260-666: The Montana University System . [REDACTED] 8 Yellowstone County Courthouse 108 (33) 8 1957 Office The Yellowstone County Courthouse is the main administrative building for Yellowstone County. It currently houses the Yellowstone County Elections Office, County Attorney's Office, and the Yellowstone County Financial Department, among others. In addition, it

286-522: The Plaza del Obradoiro , is actually encasing and concealing the older Portico of Glory . In modern high-rise building, the exterior walls are often suspended from the concrete floor slabs. Examples include curtain walls and precast concrete walls. The façade can at times be required to have a fire-resistance rating , for instance, if two buildings are very close together, to lower the likelihood of fire spreading from one building to another. In general,

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312-804: The French façade , which in turn comes from the Italian facciata , from faccia meaning 'face', ultimately from post-classical Latin facia . The earliest usage recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is 1656. It was quite common in the Georgian period for existing houses in English towns to be given a fashionable new façade. For example, in the city of Bath , The Bunch of Grapes in Westgate Street appears to be

338-2641: The United States Tallest buildings by state Tallest buildings by pinnacle height Tallest under construction, approved, and proposed buildings Timeline of tallest buildings Tallest demolished buildings Akron, OH Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo, TX Anchorage, AK Arlington, VA Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Baton Rouge, LA Bellevue, WA Billings, MT Birmingham, AL Boise, ID Boston Buffalo, NY Camden, NJ Charlotte, NC Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Springs Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Corpus Christi, TX Dallas Dayton, OH Denver Des Moines, IA Detroit El Paso, TX Fort Lauderdale, FL Fort Lee, NJ Fort Wayne, IN Fort Worth Grand Rapids, MI Hartford, CT Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS Jacksonville, FL Jersey City, NJ Kansas City, MO Knoxville, TN Las Vegas Lexington, KY Long Beach, CA Louisville, KY Los Angeles Lubbock, TX Madison, WI Manchester, NH Memphis, TN Metairie, LA Miami Miami Beach, FL Midland, TX Milwaukee Minneapolis Mobile, AL Nashville, TN New Brunswick, NJ New Haven, CT New Orleans New York City Brooklyn Queens Staten Island Newark, NJ Norfolk, VA North Hudson, NJ Oakland, CA Oklahoma City Omaha, NE Orlando, FL Paterson, NJ Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Providence, RI Quad Cities Raleigh, NC Richmond, VA Riverside, CA Rochester, MN Rochester, NY Sacramento, CA Salt Lake City San Antonio, TX San Diego San Francisco San Jose Seattle Spokane, WA Springfield, MA St. Louis Saint Paul St. Petersburg Sunny Isles Beach, FL Syracuse, NY Tacoma Tallahassee, FL Tampa Toledo, OH Tucson, AZ Tulsa, OK Tysons, VA Virginia Beach, VA Washington, DC Washington metropolitan area Wichita, KS Wilmington, DE Winston-Salem, NC Worcester, MA Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Billings&oldid=1242400839 " Categories : Lists of tallest buildings in

364-752: The United States by populated place Lists of buildings and structures in Montana Buildings and structures in Billings, Montana Hidden categories: CS1 maint: unfit URL Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use American English from August 2019 All Misplaced Pages articles written in American English Use mdy dates from August 2019 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2013 Facade In architecture ,

390-401: The façade of a building is often the most important aspect from a design standpoint, as it sets the tone for the rest of the building. From the engineering perspective, the façade is also of great importance due to its impact on energy efficiency . For historical façades, many local zoning regulations or other laws greatly restrict or even forbid their alteration. The word is a loanword from

416-472: The façade systems that are suspended or attached to the precast concrete slabs will be made from aluminum (powder coated or anodized) or stainless steel . In recent years more lavish materials such as titanium have sometimes been used, but due to their cost and susceptibility to panel edge staining these have not been popular. Whether rated or not, fire protection is always a design consideration. The melting point of aluminum, 660 °C (1,220 °F),

442-478: The finest hotel in Montana' " . The Billings Gazette . Retrieved July 8, 2013 . ^ Falstad, Jan (February 18, 2012). "Northern Hotel financing comes through" . Billings Gazette . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . ^ "Northern Hotel" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Rocky Plaza" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from

468-601: The original on January 28, 2013 . Retrieved March 1, 2013 . ^ "Liberal Arts Building" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on April 9, 2013 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Yellowstone County Courthouse" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on April 9, 2013 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "County Departments" . Yellowstone County . Retrieved March 1, 2013 . ^ "US Bank Tower" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from

494-426: The original on April 9, 2013 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Sage Tower" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties in Montana" . Yellowstone County Department of Commerce. Archived from

520-479: The original on November 2, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Wells Fargo Plaza" . Skyscraper Source Media . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . ^ "Granite Tower" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ Falstad, Jan (March 10, 2013). "The new Northern: 'It will be

546-519: The original on October 10, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "The Terrace, Billings | 229158" . Emporis. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013 . Retrieved May 2, 2022 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) v t e Lists of tallest buildings in the United States Tallest buildings in

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572-578: The original on October 24, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "First Interstate Center" . Skyscraper Source Media . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . ^ "Crowne Plaza Billings" . Skyscraper Source Media . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . ^ "Crowne Plaza" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012 . Retrieved February 25, 2013 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link ) ^ "Wells Fargo Plaza" . Emporis GmbH. Archived from

598-600: The percentage of window area in exterior walls. When the exterior wall is not rated, the perimeter slab edge becomes a junction where rated slabs are abutting an unrated wall. For rated walls, one may also choose rated windows and fire doors , to maintain that wall's rating. On a film set and within most themed attractions, many of the buildings are only façade, which are far cheaper than actual buildings, and not subject to building codes (within film sets). In film sets, they are simply held up with supports from behind, and sometimes have boxes for actors to step in and out of from

624-431: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wells Fargo Plaza . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wells_Fargo_Plaza&oldid=1070330283 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

650-531: Was the tallest building in Billings from 1980–1985. Upon completion, it was declared the tallest load-bearing brick building in the world by the Brick Institute of America, and the facade contains 2.3 million bricks. This building is a rarity for its time in that it is built using the facade system of applied masonry, which was usually used in the facade construction of buildings pre- World War II It

676-434: Was the tallest building in Montana until 1977. [REDACTED] 5 Granite Tower 130 (40) 11 1975 Office It was the tallest office building in Billings from 1975 to 1977. It is primarily used for office space; including the offices of the designers, Harrison G. Fagg and Associates. [REDACTED] 6= Northern Hotel 129 (39) 10 1942 Hotel The Northern Hotel,

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