The plans include building five new colonnades that don’t face the trafficway and would use modern construction materials to keep out sound while fitting the historic fabric.
—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
4 Mar. 2025
Elon Musk, second from the left, walks along the colonnade at the White House on Feb. 19, 2025.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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