Arcade (architecture)
An arcade is a succession of arches, each counterthrusting the next, supported by columns or piers; or a covered walk enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides. In warmer or wet climates, exterior arcades provide shelter for pedestrians.
A blind arcade superimposes arcading against a solid wall.[1] Blind arcades are a feature of Romanesque architecture that was taken into Gothic architecture.
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In Gothic architecture, the arcade can be located in the interior, in the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory in a cathedral,[2] or on the exterior, in which they are usually part of the walkways that surround the courtyard and cloisters.
The idea of an arcade containing shops began in France in 1798 with the Passage du Caire created as a tribute to the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. It was appreciated by the public for its protection from the weather, noise and filth of the streets.[3] A year later American architect William Thayer created the Passage des Panoramas with a row of shops passing between two panorama paintings. Shopping arcades increasingly were built in the second Bourbon Restoration.[4] Upper levels of arcades often contained apartments[5] and sometimes brothels.[6]
Notable arcades [edit]
- Burlington Arcade, London
- Cleveland Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio
- Dayton Arcade, Dayton, Ohio
- Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan
- GUM, Moscow
- Çiçek Pasajı, Istanbul
- Galleria Umberto I, Naples
- Great Mosque of Córdoba
- List of shopping arcades in Cardiff, Cardiff
- Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Architecture of the California missions, U.S..
- Melbourne Block Arcade, Australia
- Nashville Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee
- Old Bank Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand
- Paddock Arcade, Watertown, New York
- Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda, Aragon Autonomous Community, Spain
- Royal Arcade, Melbourne, Australia
- Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France
- Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Silver Arcade Silver Arcade, Leicester, UK
- The Strand Arcade Sydney N.S.W., Australia
- The Passage St. Petersburg
- Victoria Quarter, Leeds
- Westminster Arcade, Providence, Rhode Island
- Mosque of Uqba, Kairouan, Tunisia
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References [edit]
- ^ James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner (2007), Essex. The buildings of England, Yale University Press, page 865
- ^ William Chambers (1973), Chambers's encyclopaedia, Volume 1, International Learning Systems Corp, p. 534
- ^ p. 174 Desmons, Gilles Walking Paris New Holland Publishers, 2008
- ^ p. 386 Ayers, Andrew The Architecture of Paris: An Architectural Guide Edition Axel Menges, 2004
- ^ p. 32 Benjamin, Walter & Tiedemann, Rolf The Arcades Project Harvard University Press, 1999
- ^ p. 88 Rabaté, Jean-Michel Given: 10 Art 20 Crime : Modernity, Murder and Mass Culture Sussex Academic Press, 2007
