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Recent Examples of peristyleThe best examples of this style are seen at the Getty Villa peristyle gardens — a peristyle is a courtyard framed by colonnades or rows of pillars — in Malibu.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
Campus wayfinding has been improved, the auditorium refurbished, the atrium reimagined, spaces for education upgraded, and a new archival display gallery added among other improvements.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
The bio-andy picked up voices somewhere inside the atrium.
This spring, across the nation’s auditoriums and quadrangles, members of the class of 2026 took their seats to receive remarks from distinguished guests.
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Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The bedroom, on a corner of the building, was the shape of an irregular quadrangle.
As soon as the game wrapped up, those guests shuffled out, and hours later were replaced by a rowdier group ordering shots at the bar, dancing to 2000s hits in front of the DJ booth and smoking vape pens on the outdoor patio.
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Katelyn Umholtz,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
Avoid putting your grill against the side of your house or under a patio roof or someone else's balcony, for example.
Authorities have worked in recent years to reduce the monkey population through sterilization programs and by relocating some animals to dedicated enclosures.
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Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
And if an enclosure isn't tightly secured, your chickens will escape and wander off without any regards for property lines.
Those arrested for criminal conduct must be held accountable in our court system.
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Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
24 June 2026
The court was also shown a surveillance video from a day before the hearing where Porter was seen attacking a juvenile court staffer and trying to escape.
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Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 June 2026
The 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.
Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
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CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
The 33-year-old, playing at TPC River Highlands for the ninth time, was in a bunker 80 feet from the 13th hole after his second shot on the 526-yard par-5.