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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.
Arcade most often refers to: Arcade game, a coin-operated video, pinball, electro-mechanical, redemption, etc., game. Arcade video game, a coin-operated video game. Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade video game's hardware. Arcade system board, a standardized printed circuit board. Amusement arcade, a place with arcade games.
Riwaq (arcade) Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries. Rueda Abbey. Categories: Arches and vaults. Architectural elements. Garden features. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Lombard band. A Lombard band is a decorative blind arcade, usually located on the exterior of building. It was frequently used during the Romanesque and Gothic periods of Western architecture. It resembles a frieze of arches. Lombard bands are believed to have been first used during the First Romanesque period, in the early 11th century.
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 ...
John Eisenmann (March 26, 1851 – January 6, 1924) was an architect in Cleveland, Ohio. As part of Eisenmann & Smith he designed the Cleveland Arcade in downtown Cleveland. He also designed the Main building for Case School of Applied Science, present-day Case Western Reserve University, where he was also the school's first professor of civil ...
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 ...
Specks Hof is a commercial building with the oldest preserved shopping arcade in Leipzig, Germany. The complex near St. Nicholas Church is an example of Leipzig's trade fair and trading buildings, which were built at the beginning of the 20th century.