portico
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This includes an extensive £912,000 program to repair structural defects to Kensington Palace, including to strengthen load-bearing portico columns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In December, the board decided to rename the institution and new lettering bearing Trump's full name was affixed to the centre's front portico the next day.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Trump finally appeared on the portico of the Blue Room after 7 p.m. on Wednesday to welcome new interns to what the White House described as a “soiree” on the South Lawn.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
On benches under the portico, elderly women from the nursing home sat in pairs, in knee-length overcoats with oversized buttons, eating lozenges.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Its White City—a temporary demonstration of the grandeur of classical architecture, with Greek and Roman-style colonnades and porticoes arranged around a lake—had been designed by America’s greatest architects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Some of them even spent a night or two sleeping on tiled floors among its trickling fountains and delicate arched porticoes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
At a meeting in China on Wednesday, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the U.N. culture agency, inscribed the porticoes on the prestigious list.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
Front doors are set back several feet from the facades to create sheltering porticoes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017
Everywhere there were statues of lions—on top of pedestals, over doorways, on the porticoes of the largest buildings.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The entire city is filled with beautiful archways and pillars and covered porticos.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
We could tell it was Federal style by the symmetrical design with porticos supported by Ionic columns, fanlights over the doors and keystone lintels.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021
Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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