The name of the area leading to a building's entrance

What are some names for the outside area of a building called, specifically the one leading to its entrance? I know the word "plaza" would come to mind but I'm thinking more of the steps, especially a wide circular-type layout of steps climbing to its entrance.

Solution 1:

How about perron? From The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms (1984):

perron: a flight of steps, usually double, with a platform and a parapet, forming the approach to an important entrance

From M-W:

perron: an outdoor stairway leading up to a building entrance; also a platform at its top

From Lexico:

perron: An exterior set of steps and a platform at the main entrance to a large building such as a church or mansion.

From Wikipedia:

In architecture, a perron generally refers to an external stairway to a building. Curl notes three more-specific usages: the platform-landing reached by symmetrical flights of steps leading to the piano nobile of a building; the steps themselves; or the platform base of edifices like a market cross.

A perron may be placed in front of the main entrance of a building or house, either as a single stone staircase or pair of such staircases leading up to the entrance and built in the Romanesque or Palladian styles and decorated with arches, balustrades and corbels.

Solution 2:

The general landscaped area in front of a building is called a forecourt:

[Merriam-Webster]
1 : an open court in front of a building

It may or may not contains stairs that lead to the building's entrance.

Wikipedia has a picture of the Bonn station forecourt, among a couple of others: