Great Colonnade at Apamea as part of the intersection. The colonnade was further intersected by side streets at regular intervals of . The colonnade passed through the center of the city and several important buildings were clustered around it, including the baths, the agora, the Temple of Tyche, the nymphaeum, the rotunda, the atrium church and the basilica. The street within the colonnade was wide and paved with large polygonal limestone blocks. On either side of the street a wide colonnade ran its full length. The columns were high and in diameter. They stood on square bases of on a side and high. The
Architectural firm China are hiring US and European firms to work on local developments. This is often coordinated or sub-contracted by architecture firms in these countries—in effect outsourcing work to the US and European firms. The recent market situation has led to an acceleration in this trend and a growing number of architecture firms in India and China are now outsourcing work to architects in the west. The long-term and widespread effects of these practices on architectural firms (in all parts of the world) remain to be seen. Architectural firm In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a