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fa·çad·ism

also fa·cad·ism  (fə-sä′dĭz′əm)
n.
The practice of preserving the fronts of old buildings while demolishing the backs, often constructing modern interiors behind the old façades.
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Heritage advocates have frowned on the NCCA advice, calling it 'facadism' and 'illusionary heritage protection.'
Interiors will certainly change and there needs to be care that it is not a pastiche or just facadism, but a realistic attempt to rebuild communities, while also providing 21st century facilities," he said.
One upshot of this problem is the rise of 'facadism': the retention of the half-metre or so of stone at the front of a building, with the gutting of all its internal fabric to create more up-to-date spaces behind.
He said: "Facadism is not only an increasingly contentious and questionable approach to conservation, it is something that SAVE themselves have condemned elsewhere.
In the student housing category is this rather excellent example of facadism which can be spotted on London's Caledonian Road
I am also very concerned at the damage that would be done to the listed buildings.'' Coun Woodwark is unhappy about impact on residents and the appearance of the bedsits which he says would constitute "facadism''.
Among other undertakings, the group has produced an ongoing time line of urban issues from the era of the historical avant-gardes through Stalinism, late modernism, and the turmoil of the past twenty years, and researches phenomena such as the recent government-run "beautification" initiatives and the accompanying "facadism." These terms refer to the often superficial restoration and redevelopment of Georgia's main historic towns, the surfaces of which have been cleaned and polished while building interiors and public infrastructure have largely been left untouched.