piazza - a public square with room for pedestrians; "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place"
plaza, place
public square, square - an open area at the meeting of two or more streets ...
piazza: an Italian public square; in 17th and 18th century England it came to denote a covered arcade surrounding a square.
pier: a mass of masonry serving as a vertical support. If cylindrical it is called a pillar or column.
Piazza
- an open space, sometimes square but more usually rectangular, surrounded by buildings. Used in Scotland to describe the arcaded walk under 17th century and earlier, buildings.
piazza - an American term for a broad veranda
pier - point foundation, such as may support a column, or porch
pilaster - a flat form of a pillar or column applied to a wall and used as decoration ...
Piazza d'Italia by Charles Willard Moore, New Orleans.
Perhaps the best example of irony in Postmodern buildings is Charles Willard Moore's Piazza d'Italia (1978). Moore quotes (architecturally) elements of Italian renaissance and Roman Antiquity.
Piazza bassa: A casemate set in a flank of a work from which artillery was used to enfilade the curtain and to cover the ditch.
Piazza Novona , Rome, Italy
St. Peter's, Rome, Italy ...
Site: Piazza San Marco
Date: 11th century and later
Exterior view #1
Exterior view #2 ...
piazza, plaza, place, platzPiazza, Plaza, Place, Platz, deriving from Italian, describe a public open space surrounded by buildings.
concourse : a hall in a pedestrian precinct, or a piazza
concrete : A mixture of sand, cement and aggregate (stone or gravel) that may be reinforced with ferrous metals.
An earlier name for it in America was piazza. The French colonists called it a galerie, the Dutch a stoep (Americanized as stoop), the Spanish a portal, in Italy it is a loggia.
Nighttime view of the lighted Roman Pantheon from Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, Italy ...
The nude, muscular hero holds the bloody severed head of Medusa high in the air as he looks over the Piazza della Signoria, the main square of Florence.
Baroque church façades were frequently designed in relation to the piazzas on to which they looked rather than the church interiors that they fronted. Often, whole new towns were built on formal principles.
 See also: Architecture, House, Classical, Renaissance, Palace
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