Hong Kong's Portico is located in a Citibank office block on the fringes of the Central financial district.
But try telling that to the ravers who pour out of Portico at six on a Sunday morning.
When I went out to the portico, the ramp rats were less circumspect.
Before long, the portico was packed: tour bus groups, foreign sightseers, summer campers.
Kenya will be added to the Portico virtual assistant service later this year.
Start at the portico walkways that surround the iconic Piazza San Marco.
Once through the giant neo-classical portico, however, the auditorium is quite cosy.
"Once they're in the door, they're in their element, " says the chief of security that night at Portico, Jonathan Mills.
But there is a further aspect of this portico so crucial to its mix of lightness and solidity: its relative thinness.
Just a week after the party at Portico, customs officers seized more than 12, 000 tablets from a 37-year-old resident returning from Amsterdam.
Enter the mosque (through a portico inappropriately arabised by ogee arches) and it becomes apparent that three of the six are false.
The theater was severely damaged, and video showed the main portico with glass doors, drywall and twisted steel beams scattered across the interior.
The ceremony was held on the North Portico of the White House, and the president received a bit of help of his daughters, Sasha and Malia.
The half-dozen columns supporting it recall those around the belfry outside, while a tall curtained arch framed by giant pilasters and entablature echoes the portico facade.
When Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated, on the East Portico of the Capitol, Taney administered the oath, and Lincoln, in his address, confronted the crisis of constitutional authority.
Pass the Verona Canal, where gondolas effortlessly glide by, on your way to Campo Santo Stefano, a square that leads to a number of secretive Baroque courtyards and portico arches.
The 1763 building was originally a prominent cultural landmark with an entrance decorated in classical portico, a ceiling cupola and a series of gilded columns leading to a hidden courtyard.
From her perch in the rooms above the garage, Husna watched the guests emerge into the portico and continue speaking to Harouni for what seemed an interminable period before driving away.
Il Portico (Via del Portico d'Ottavia), alongside the broken portico of an ancient Roman market, offers traditional Roman-Jewish cuisine, such as the flattened, fried, tender-on-the-inside carciofi alla giudia (artichoke Jewish-style).
It's the Jesse Helms Center, set up nine years ago as a shrine for the North Carolina Senator in an old white neoclassical home with a wide portico and fluted columns.
Built in 1891, it exudes the genteel grandeur of a bygone tourist age, with a White House-grade portico, iron bedsteads primly clad in sheets, and an unapologetic absence of TV and air conditioning.
However museum officials were accused of "dereliction of duty" by English Heritage after it was revealed contractors used the wrong kind of stone to build the South Portico feature of the London museum.
The vestibule before it for gathering and circulation is a horizontal rectangular volume, while the front portico is a temple form with open walls (a perfect balance of voids and mass), serving as a transition space from the exterior green to interior enclosures.
Across a courtyard (featuring bronze statues of father and son, Bush 41 and Bush 43), the George W. Bush Institute is far more stately, adhering to a stricter, symmetrical layout, complete with a columned portico entrance where a replica of the White House lantern swings.
WSJ: Bricks and Immortality | George W. Bush Presidential Center | By Julie V. Iovine
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