Colonnades

piazza in Vatican City

300px|thumb|upright= 1.5|The cloister at Salisbury Cathedral, England

thumb|300px|right|Colonnade at the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg palace in Germany

major square of Budapest

archaeological site

thumb|300px|The restored Stoa of Attalos in Athens, with busts of historical philosophers.

thumb|Reconstruction of a Roman peristyle surrounding a courtyard in Pompeii, Italy

Moscow Metro station

ancient stoa in Athens

thumb|right|Illustration from ''I quattro libri dell'architettura|The Four Books of Architecture by [[Andrea Palladio, translation by Thomas Ware published in London, 1738]] thumb|The sequence of expanding intercolumniations, showing Pycnostyle ( I = 1.5D), Systyle ( I = 2D), Eustyle ( I = 2.25D), Diastyle ( I = 3D), and Araeostyle ( I = +3.5D) In architecture, intercolumniation is the proportional spacing between columns in a colonnade, often expressed as a multiple of the column diameter as measured at the bottom of the shaft. In Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture, intercolumni

style of architecture designed during the reign of Edward of Great Britain (1901-1910)

building in Schwanthalerhöhe, Upper Bavaria, Germany

principal colonnaded street and ancient ruin in Palmyra, Syria

east façade of the Palais du Louvre

cultural property in Vitoria, Spain

Grade II* listed building in Cardiff. World War I and II memorial in Cardiff, Wales

In Classical architecture, a pteron (, 'wing') is an external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple. The pteroma or peristasis is the passage between the columns and the wall in a temple, the peristyle that in an inward-facing courtyard or garden.

colonnade in Karlovy Vary, Czechia

{| style="border-collapse:collapse" cellpadding="0" |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Yakushu-ji|x200px |style="border:1px solid black;"|alt=Kibitsu Jinja|x200px |} Two examples of kairō , , is the Japanese version of a cloister, a covered corridor originally built around the most sacred area of a Buddhist temple, a zone which contained the kondō and the tō. Nowadays it can be found also at Shinto shrines and at shinden-zukuri aristocratic residences.

architectural element