Arcades

Source: archidose.org

Town Hall, Logroño, Spain, 1980 designed by Rafael Moneo

The two long elevations facing this plaza are treated differently, one colonnaded and the other with punched openings, what Moneo further describes as a "way of understanding the city hall through its composition in relation to urban space."  -- A Weekly Dose of Architecture

Source: Foster + Partners

Capital City Academy, London, UK, 2003 designed by David Foster + Partners

A generous full-length colonnade embraces the sports field and relates the building to the surrounding landscape.  -- architect's web site

Source: e-architect.co.uk

Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany, 2007 designed by David Chipperfield Architects

manifests Classical impulses at the very moment in architectural culture when a formidable divide separates unreconstituted Modernists and diehard Classicists. Instead, the design harks back to Germany’s own Modernist heritage. -- Architectural Record, February 2007

Source: Keith Williams Architects

New Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, UK, 2011 designed by Keith Williams Architects

The 4,850 sqm building is in formal terms, a complex pavilion. Its composition is ordered by an 8m high colonnade in white cast Dolomite stone, which sets up a civic order to the main facade whilst mediating between the historic fine grain street scale and the larger volumes of auditorium and flytower.  -- ArchDaily

Source: archdaily.com

Tianjin West Railway Station, Beijing, China, 2011 designed by gmp architekten

Its curved roof is reminiscent of a large scale city gate and the long, stretched out concourse beneath of a classic place of transit. The portals of the eastern and western sides of the curved hall are symmetrically framed by arcades.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Andrés Valle Florsheim archdaily.com

U. Talca Library, Talca, VII Región, Chile, 2011 designed by Valle Cornejo Arquitectos

The facade design is a series of pillars that open to the exterior north side of the building. The facade both regulates the building’s direct sunlight and serves as a recognizable image, a face for the campus and the library. -- ArchDaily

Source: Leonardo Finotti archdaily.com

New Aveiro Train Station, Aveiro, Portugal designed by JLLA

....the architectural and urban solution was based on the idea of centrality around the station, its symbolism and its multiple functionalities. The new station functions as a public equipment that despite its prime functional constraint – railway line that runs through and divides places – can create a new identity for the city’s marginal zone and succeed to connect/link two urban areas: old city and marginal urban neighborhoods.  -- ArchDaily