0 a row of pillars supporting a roof, usually forming a porch to a building. -- serambi anjung
The central plaza was flanked by the government palace, the cathedral, the municipal plaza and a portico for merchant shops.
Roman artists focused on memorable urban objects actually experienced by viewers, including external walls, temples, porticos and colossal statues.
He gestures to the portico through which they are about to walk and looks back towards her.
In both cases, plans and elevations are symmetrical and each has a central tower, projecting two-storey porticoes with classical columns.
The yards, where the inmates spent much of their time, were to have a chimney to provide warmth and porticos where they could shelter in bad weather.
It was also a commercial centre: its porticoes provided shelter for a variety of vendors, whereas artisans and even the occasional dentist occupied the ground-floor apartments of its houses.
At some point it was transferred to the opening in general, becoming the flattened 'little portico', although to an extent, however dim, memory of its shrine symbolism would remain.
Their inner facades consist of a double-height portico with a projecting balcony running the full length of the wing and providing a shady walkway under the portico.