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
Royal Automobile Club of Australia building casebook example of the features and aesthetic aspirations of this architectural style, as transposed from the United States to Australian - and here particularly Sydney - conditions. This aesthetic/architectural significance is enhanced by the relatively high degree of intactness of the building's major features and fabric, particularly on the main exterior elevations, including the face-brick and stonework, steel windows and doors, and the fine stone and wrought iron colonnade. Internally, key spaces such as the main entry hall with its marble floor and column cladding, the dining room with its coffered ceiling and lead-light glazed dome and major function and