Plaza
noun
An open public area in a city or town where people can gather.
The city's main plaza was bustling with people preparing for the festival.
Often appears as...
- city plaza
- town plaza
noun
A shopping center or complex.
The new plaza has everything from a grocery store to a high-end fashion boutique.
Often appears as...
- shopping plaza
- office plaza
noun
An open public area in a city or town where people can gather.
The city's main plaza was bustling with people preparing for the festival.
Often appears as...
- city plaza
- town plaza
noun
A shopping center or complex.
The new plaza has everything from a grocery store to a high-end fashion boutique.
Often appears as...
- shopping plaza
- office plaza
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Gathering Spot
A plaza is often a focal point for festivals, markets, and community events.
Let's meet at the plaza to enjoy the open-air concert.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Significance
Many plazas are historical and may have monuments or be surrounded by important buildings.
The plaza is surrounded by the city's most historic architecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Central Location
Plazas are commonly located at the heart of a city or town, sometimes near a landmark.
The plaza is right in the center, next to the cathedral.
Pro Tip 1/3Gathering Spot
A plaza is often a focal point for festivals, markets, and community events.
Let's meet at the plaza to enjoy the open-air concert.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Significance
Many plazas are historical and may have monuments or be surrounded by important buildings.
The plaza is surrounded by the city's most historic architecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Central Location
Plazas are commonly located at the heart of a city or town, sometimes near a landmark.
The plaza is right in the center, next to the cathedral.
Pro Tip 1/3Gathering Spot
A plaza is often a focal point for festivals, markets, and community events.
Let's meet at the plaza to enjoy the open-air concert.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Significance
Many plazas are historical and may have monuments or be surrounded by important buildings.
The plaza is surrounded by the city's most historic architecture.
Pro Tip 3/3Central Location
Plazas are commonly located at the heart of a city or town, sometimes near a landmark.
The plaza is right in the center, next to the cathedral.
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Majora Carter: Greening...
If you're a mayor, you can do something about that. His administration narrowed key municipal thoroughfares from five lanes to three, outlawed parking on those streets, expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes, created public plazas, created one of the most efficient bus mass-transit systems in the entire world.
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9/11 'Survivor Tree'...
she's probably gonna really take off nicely because now she's going to be in fertile soil everything beginning soil it's got aeration got fertilization you know the whole plaza in essence is a rooftop garden it's a it's a six foot deep planter box she's gonna grow evenly just a little bulb on one side but soon
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A stealthy reimagining...
Given the vulnerability that public spaces pose from opposition, governments try to control them. The architectural brief we got discouraged large open spaces, presumably out of concern for public assemblies and social unrest. Our response was to make open meadows and plazas
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Democracy is not a...
best oscar we could have possibly imagined and now a news story is being written in our increasingly borderless world as protesters are translating and showing our film themselves in squares in kiev caracas and moscow and other squares middens plazas and piazzas
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Aziza Chaouni: How I...
which sits actually right on top of the river, which you can see here in dotted lines. This plaza used to be a chaotic transportation hub that actually compromised the urban integrity of the medina, that has the largest pedestrian network in the world.
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Greening the ghetto -...
expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes created public plazas created one of the most efficient bus mass transit systems in the entire world for his brilliant efforts he was nearly impeached but as people began to see
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Janette Sadik-Khan: New...
we've done it with paint and temporary materials. And the proof is not in a computer model. It is in the real-world performance of the street. You can have fun with paint. All told, we've created over 50 pedestrian plazas
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Why glass towers are bad...
gives the plaza a theatrical quality. It becomes a stage where the generations can meet. You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.
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Janet Echelman: Taking...
in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work. Historic Philadelphia City its plaza, I felt, needed a material for sculpture that was lighter than netting.
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9/11 Impact Anatomy PIPE...
penetrated the north tower they began by modeling the world trade center complex seven buildings on a 16-acre plaza in lower manhattan this would be a living model of the north tower from the inside out
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Majora Carter: Greening...
If you're a mayor, you can do something about that. His administration narrowed key municipal thoroughfares from five lanes to three, outlawed parking on those streets, expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes, created public plazas, created one of the most efficient bus mass-transit systems in the entire world.
Video examples
9/11 'Survivor Tree'...
she's probably gonna really take off nicely because now she's going to be in fertile soil everything beginning soil it's got aeration got fertilization you know the whole plaza in essence is a rooftop garden it's a it's a six foot deep planter box she's gonna grow evenly just a little bulb on one side but soon
Video examples
A stealthy reimagining...
Given the vulnerability that public spaces pose from opposition, governments try to control them. The architectural brief we got discouraged large open spaces, presumably out of concern for public assemblies and social unrest. Our response was to make open meadows and plazas
Video examples
Democracy is not a...
best oscar we could have possibly imagined and now a news story is being written in our increasingly borderless world as protesters are translating and showing our film themselves in squares in kiev caracas and moscow and other squares middens plazas and piazzas
Video examples
Aziza Chaouni: How I...
which sits actually right on top of the river, which you can see here in dotted lines. This plaza used to be a chaotic transportation hub that actually compromised the urban integrity of the medina, that has the largest pedestrian network in the world.
Video examples
Greening the ghetto -...
expanded pedestrian walkways and bike lanes created public plazas created one of the most efficient bus mass transit systems in the entire world for his brilliant efforts he was nearly impeached but as people began to see
Video examples
Janette Sadik-Khan: New...
we've done it with paint and temporary materials. And the proof is not in a computer model. It is in the real-world performance of the street. You can have fun with paint. All told, we've created over 50 pedestrian plazas
Video examples
Why glass towers are bad...
gives the plaza a theatrical quality. It becomes a stage where the generations can meet. You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.
Video examples
Janet Echelman: Taking...
in spaces of cities around the world. I'm going to share two directions that are new in my work. Historic Philadelphia City its plaza, I felt, needed a material for sculpture that was lighter than netting.
Video examples
9/11 Impact Anatomy PIPE...
penetrated the north tower they began by modeling the world trade center complex seven buildings on a 16-acre plaza in lower manhattan this would be a living model of the north tower from the inside out
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Mike D
American Musician
For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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George Vecsey
American Author
Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.
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Lawrence Halprin
American Architect
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
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Rob Dyrdek
Angolan Entertainer
DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.
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Renzo Piano
Italian Architect
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
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Raza Murad
Indian Actor
I own a flat in Ansal plaza in Shyamla Hills area and am also a member of Lakeview Enclave Welfare Society but I didn't know that there was a separate society of E-block.
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Ma Yansong
Chinese Architect
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
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Rob Dyrdek
Angolan Entertainer
In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.
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Mike D
American Musician
For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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George Vecsey
American Author
Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.
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Darin Strauss
American Writer
In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.
Quote examples
Lawrence Halprin
American Architect
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.
Quote examples
Rob Dyrdek
Angolan Entertainer
DC and Monster have always supported my vision for street skateboarding, from building skate plazas throughout the world to now creating the first-ever professional skateboarding league.
Quote examples
Renzo Piano
Italian Architect
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
Quote examples
Raza Murad
Indian Actor
I own a flat in Ansal plaza in Shyamla Hills area and am also a member of Lakeview Enclave Welfare Society but I didn't know that there was a separate society of E-block.
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Ma Yansong
Chinese Architect
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
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Rob Dyrdek
Angolan Entertainer
In Ohio, I built the world's first skate plaza.
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