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2. Arcade (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Chemin de ronde - Wikipedia

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   A chemin de ronde (French, "round path"' or "patrol path"; French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də ʁɔ̃d]), also called an allure, alure or, more prosaically, a wall-walk, is a raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement. [1] [2] In early fortifications, high castle walls were difficult to defend from the ground.

4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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   A passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. Blind arcade or arcading: the same applied to the wall surface. Arch A curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight. Architrave A formalized lintel, the lowest member of the classical entablature.

5. Ponte dei Tre Archi - Wikipedia

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   As all other Venetian bridges, the Ponte dei Tre Archi is a pedestrian walkway. The Baroque style bridge was designed in 1681 by Andrea Tirali , [ 2 ] and is the sole three-arched bridge left in Venice.

6. Corbel arch - Wikipedia

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   Basic principle of the corbeled arch design ("false arch"). For the sake of comparison, a semicircular arch with wedge-shaped voussoirs maintained by a central keystone (" true arch"). A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch ) is an arch -like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in ...

7. Arches weighing 40 tons collapse along pedestrian walkway

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   An investigation is underway in North Carolina after decorative wooden arches weighing 40 tons collapsed along a pedestrian walkway in the city of Hickory. No one was hurt after the arches fell ...