The Colonnades, Garden apartment building in Virginia-Highland, Atlanta, US

The Colonnades are two three-story red-brick apartment buildings at 734–746 North Highland Avenue, each holding 12 units, set perpendicular to the street around a landscaped courtyard. Overscaled white columns stand against the brick, and the boldly projecting roofs are tiled. The attic level is stuccoed and pierced with smaller openings than the two floors below.

Lucian Lamar Knight inherited land near Ponce de Leon Avenue and St. Charles Avenue and subdivided it in 1916. On two adjacent lots he built The Colonnades for $75,000. Knight was a historian, journalist and literary editor of The Atlanta Constitution, and founder and first director of the Georgia Archives.

The name comes from the overscaled white columns that stand out against the red brick. The AIA guide calls the complex one of Atlanta's best garden apartments, citing the Mediterranean-style shrubbery in the courtyard and the Italianate tiled roofs. The buildings are a contributing property to the Virginia-Highland Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Colonnades stand at 734–746 North Highland Avenue, two buildings set perpendicular to the street and framing a courtyard between them. The apartments are private residences, so the complex is seen from the public sidewalk and street; the columns, projecting tiled roofs and attic stucco read best from across North Highland Avenue.

The AIA guide calls some of the Colonnades' details prescient of postmodern architecture, decades before the term existed: broken pediments over the raised doorways and brick-and-terracotta frames around the square openings. The overscaled white columns stand against red brick, and the attic storey is stuccoed and pierced with openings smaller than those of the two floors below.