Identifying feature
Arcade A row of arches carried on columns or piers (thick square supports), often forming a covered walkway along a building. Arcades are common on Roman, Romanesque, Renaissance and Spanish Colonial buildings.
a sign of these styles Ancient Roman c. 500 BCE–476 CE Round arches, concrete domes and vaults, and half-columns decorating huge public buildings. Byzantine c. 330–1453 A central dome floating over a square room, round arches, plain brick outside, gold mosaics inside. Italian Rationalism c. 1926–1943 White or stone-clad geometric blocks with regular grids of square windows, sometimes with plain repeated arches. Moorish / Mudéjar c. 800–1600 Spain's Islamic tradition: horseshoe arches, carved stucco, glazed tilework, and patterned brick. Ottoman c. 1300–1900 Cascading gray domes and pencil-thin minarets: mosque complexes stepping down like mountains over light-filled halls. Romanesque c. 800–1150 Fortress-thick walls, small deep-set windows, and round arches over doors and arcades. Southeast Asian Shophouse c. 1840–1960 Narrow terraced rows of two or three stories, shops at street level, with a continuous covered walkway in front. Spanish Colonial c. 1600–1940 White stucco walls, red clay tile roofs, arcades, courtyards, and wrought iron grilles. Venetian Gothic c. 1300–1500 Gothic gone lacy: pointed arches with an S-curved tip, four-leaf clover cutouts, and arcaded facades in pink and white. 
