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Arcade (architecture) An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Exterior arcades are designed to provide a sheltered walkway for pedestrians; they include many loggias, but here arches are not an essential element. An arcade may feature arches on both sides of the walkway.
This page is a glossary of architecture. A flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column. A sculptural embellishment of an arch. The subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts. The space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood screen ...
The Block Arcade is a historic shopping arcade in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [ 2 ] Constructed between 1891 and 1893, it is considered one of the late Victorian era's finest shopping arcades and ranks among Melbourne's most popular tourist attractions. Designed by architects Twentyman & Askew, the Block is ...
Cloister. A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church, commonly against a warm southern flank, [1] usually indicates that it is (or once was) part of a monastic ...
Arcades Project. View of an arcade (the passage Choiseul, located in the second arrondissement of Paris), as an example of the characteristic architecture of the covered arcades of 19th-century Paris. Das Passagen-Werk or Arcades Project was an unfinished project of German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 ...
Blind arcade. A blind arcade or blank arcade[1] is an arcade (a series of arches) that has no actual openings and that is applied to the surface of a wall as a decorative element: i.e., the arches are not windows or openings but are part of the masonry face. It is designed as an ornamental architectural element and has no load-bearing function.
Spirituality. v. t. e. A riwaq (or rivaq, Arabic: رواق riwāq or ruwāq[ 1]) is an arcade or portico (if in front of entrances) open on at least one side. [ 2] It is an architectural design element in Islamic architecture and Islamic garden design. [ 3] A riwaq often serves as the transition space between interior and outdoor spaces.
Villa Godi by Palladio. The portico is the focal point in the center with loggias used at each side of the structure as a corridor. In architecture, a loggia (/ ˈloʊdʒ (i) ə / LOH-j (ee-)ə, usually UK: / ˈlɒdʒ (i) ə / LOJ- (ee-)ə, Italian: [ˈlɔddʒa]) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but ...