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Recent Examples of peristyleThe now-familiar Olympic cauldron torch was added above the peristyle at the east end of the stadium.—Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 The cold room consists of a peristyle or porticoed court that is 10 meters (33 feet) long and 10 meters wide, with a large pool at the center.—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025 And for the next two nights, the Coliseum’s peristyle will be illuminated in blue light.—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 At least 10 peristyles have been attacked since 2021, according to Saint-Clou Augustin, a houngan.—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
This time out, MOA will set up its exhibitions at the former Madden Museum, the 10,000-square-foot atrium space at Fiddler’s Green, which now will officially be known as the Madden Gallery at the Museum of Outdoor Arts.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
8 Sep. 2025
The Gallery, spanning seven levels, is connected by a soaring atrium of floating cast medallion stairs.
People will be able to pick up their belongings left at the courtyard where the shooting took place early next week, the school said.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Sep. 2025
Livestream video of the event showed crowds of people running from the university's courtyard where the 31-year-old was speaking when the shooting occurred.
There, visitors come across soaring mosaics made from tiny golden tiles, murals of horses and sandy indoor quadrangles with palm trees sprouting up under vaulted ceilings.
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Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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.
No liquor, no food, just an enormous outdoor patio teeming with Carolina Blue, popular bands, students, alumni and celebrities.
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The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot on your back deck—thanks to a long blooming season.
The camera pans toward her to reveal a transparent glass shower enclosure located not in the bathroom, but prominently in the middle of the hotel room.
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Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
The zoo offers visitors the chance to see the animals in their natural elements at open enclosures, a travel website states.
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.
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