piazza

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piazza

1. a large open square in an Italian town

2. Chiefly Brit a covered passageway or gallery

Piazza

A public open space or square surrounded by buildings.

piazza

1. A public open space or square surrounded by buildings.

2. A term occasionally used for a raised porch or veranda in French Vernacular architecture or in American Colonial architecture and derivatives (especially in the South); often supported by columns or posts.

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Bosses at the centre arranged for inflatable fun houses and bouncy castles to be put on the Piazza from June 4 to 7, during school half-term.

More cash for hospice group

You enter at a middle level, looking up and down into a glass-roofed atrium used both for vertical circulation and as a winter garden in the months when the piazza is covered with snow.

Office of the future: this humane and environmentally responsive complex of work spaces for Norway's leading telecom company is an inspiring and enlightened vision of corporate life

Despite the harsh reactions to the gossip, Buzinski said the Piazza and Koufax affairs could one day open the door to a more tolerant pro sports world.

Koufax strikes out: the legendary left-hander's reaction to gossip is another reminder of how homophobia still dominates the pro sports world. (Sports)

A long glass and timber wall inclined, like those of airport control towers, to reduce reflections, separates piazza from atrium, so depending on your angle of observation and that of the sun, external and internal spaces flow together visually.

Central focus: now near completion, this mixed-use building boldly combines three very disparate elements, shopping mall, university and office tower, to try to create an urban and social centre in the middle of sprawling suburbs

Timothy Piazza's father, James Piazza, recalled how he was speaking to a Rutgers University student that very morning.

Timothy Piazza's Father Recalls 'Eerie Coincidence' On Day Of Son's Death

Under the curving fins will be a large stepped sandstone pedestrian piazza on which is to be a glazed foyer.

Moving image: a remarkable filmic addition is made to Sydney. Unlike most cinemas, it promises to add to the jollity of urban life

The brothers were charged in connection with the death of Timothy Piazza, who died during after a night of hazing at the Beta Theta Pi house in February.