She designed buildings in Ghana, Nigeria, Iran and Sri Lanka, and she wrote books on what she had learnt about architecture there. In London she did social housing, buildings for the Festival of Britain, and helped to establish the Institute of Contemporary Arts. After retiring from practice ...
The royal city of Fatehpur Sikri was once the capital of the Mughal era during Akbar’s reign. This royal city is one of the historical tourist places in India and once had palaces, public buildings, mosques, quarters for the king, the army as well as the servants. Further, the well pl...
They cleared out a large area for the construction, taking down several buildings of the Byzantine and the Early Ottoman periods. After that loads and loads of rock and marble were brought in. The name "Blue" was given to the mosque because of the huge (over 20 thousand!) number of whit...
The mosque was built in the 8th century and is considered one of the most important buildings left from the Umayyad period. The building was erected on the site of a Visigothic Christian church that had been damaged in the Moorish invasion of Spain. The mosque was later converted into a cat...
Her buildings are distinctively neofuturistic, characterised by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria. ...
sent a man named Yoel Goren to Buenos Aires to scout out the location that Hermann mentioned. Goren saw Germany migrants and swastikas painted on a few buildings, but he doubted Eichmann, a bon vivant with a taste for the high life, was living in this “wretched little house” in an ar...
less than 56 meters/184ft. The construction already caused many problems as the soil was soft, sandy and unstable. Already during construction, the builders tried to balance the leaning side with more columns on the other side, but the tower still leaned - like many other buildings in the ...
Entry to these are free except for a few that houses buildings of archaeological importance. Remember to get a road map so that you can roam around freely without panicking about your return.Top 5 Reasons to Visit Gardens of Delhi To Spend Some Time In The Heart of Nature Far from the ...
Surrounding Buildings: Includes housing for monks, a nunnery nearby, and guest facilities. Scenic Backdrop: Framed by majestic peaks like Ama Dablam, Everest, and Lhotse. Cultural Experience Mani Rimdu Festival: A 19-day festival culminating in three days of public celebrations featuring masked danc...
Another Chinese pilgrim was I-Tsing, who spent 10 years at this university and attests for 8 monastic buildings and over 300 apartments. Nalanda today is in ruins but still it imparts the scholarly look. The archaeological zone here is classified into a number of sites that include 11 ...