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Recent Examples of parvisThe western façade, giving onto the parvis, the open area before the cathedral, was not completed until around 1240, and the upper gallery of the nave and the two towers on the west façade were finished between 1225 and 1250.—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 Apr. 2019
More than 1,000 employees circumnavigate the bustling fifth floor Tempus office around an atrium that Lefkofsky said was a spiral parking ramp before the building — a National Historic Landmark that once housed the country’s oldest mail-order firm — was converted to tech space 25 years ago.
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Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
Inside, a floor-to-ceiling curved atrium featuring a central light well will enhance that rocky effect.
The witness said survivors were placed in a courtyard, where hospital staff incited others to beat them.
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Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Taking inspiration from 16th-century outdoor sculpture courtyards, this (indoor) exhibition explores the range of figurative human sculptures in the Walker’s collection.
The cultural venue is set on a public plaza on Heydar Aliyev Boulevard, a main throughway in Baku that connects the international airport to the old city.
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Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
The majority of the park is outdoors and lands themed to different studios are accessible from a central plaza at the end of a street that looks like Hollywood Boulevard with a hint of New York City.
Her arguable masterpiece follows the vain Leonora Eyre over and around a fraught love quadrangle with a widowed antiques dealer, his nephew, and some other motley souls.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
With the arrival of Amaya, an odd quadrangle emerges between her, Austin, Ace, and Chelley.
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