portico

The portico was self-contained; at the press of a button Colin turned it into a prison cell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Paper lanterns were laid across the courtyard, as they had been at a public viewing of Armani's body in Milan earlier this month, with the models walking under the portico.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

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

Double stairs that swept up to the columned portico.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

Back in Trinidad, we park on a quiet street of red-tiled rooftops and shuttered porticoes, where we’ll sleep later.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2018

Surrounded by columns, fountains, porticoes and an outdoor fireplace, it feels more like the Mediterranean than St. Louis.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2018

Some had domes and columned porticoes, like national monuments.

From "The Son of Neptune" 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

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

Once discharged, Saint Phalle moved to Spain, where the architecture of Antoni Gaudí — particularly his Parc Güell in Barcelona, with its undulating porticos and mosaic-covered benches — would decisively influence her later public works.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021

Once rioters were outside, D.C. police handled removing them from the external stairs, porticos and balconies of the Capitol.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 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