Great Colonnade at Apamea overhauled drainage system. Justinian's changes included erecting a monumental "tetrastylon" made up of four high columns with a meter-high capitals. The city, was however, later sacked by the Sasanians under Adarmahan. Great Colonnade at Apamea The Great Colonnade at Apamea was the main colonnaded avenue of the ancient city of Apamea in the Orontes River valley in northwestern Syria. It was built in the second century CE after Apamea's devastation in the 115 earthquake. The avenue, which runs for nearly , made up the city's north-south axis, or the "cardo maximus". The monumental colonnade is among the longest and most
Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments The Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments are three highrise apartment buildings in Newark, New Jersey. The 22-story towers were designed in the International Style by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1960, originally known as Colonnade Park. Soon after completing Manhattan’s Seagram Building, Mies designed the three towers near Branch Brook Park, north of Downtown Newark. The Pavilion Apartments are located at 108-136 Martin Luther King Blvd. and the Colonnade Apartments at 25 Clifton Avenue in the overlapping neighborhoods known as Seventh Avenue and Lower Broadway, Newark. Privately owned, the buildings were intended to