#islamic architecture

The Sheraton Hotel in Damascus by Lucio Barbera in 1978.

The hotel comprises a six-storey, compact U-shaped, building overlooking a series of descending landscaped gardens and a pool. These are all symetrically laid out along an axis which leads down to the center of Omayyad Square.

A monumental fountain is the upper focus of the axis, and is complemented at the lower end of the site by an oasis" of palms sheltering another fountain. The hotel rooms are arranged on the upper five floors.

Yemeni Hawk was inspired by Arabic Calligraphy which is an artistic way of handwriting based upon sharing a common Islamic cultural heritage.

A house in Kruja, Albania

1916

Posing in front of a teqe/ tekke/ zawiya in Tetovo, Macedonia. I believe this is the open-air structure of the  Arabati Baba Teḱe of the Bektashi order, built in c. 1538,

c.1914

Beautiful drawings by Rudolf Procházka, from his book In Serbian Captivity — about the life in Niš and escape to Albania 1914–1915

A minaret in the today’s city of Nis, Serbia & “a turkish house in Nis”

Stone Town, Zanzibar - Tanzania

Modern residence in Stone Town highlights Zanzibari architecture, a mixture of Swahili, Islamic, and European architectural influences.  

Ancient tiles, Uzbekistan.

Restored dome of the octagonal sanctuary in the shrine complex of Shaykh Abd al-Samad; originally Buyid, incorporated into Ilkhanid building ca. 1304.  Restored 1970s.  Natanz, Iran. 

Wazir Khan Mosque. Lahore, Pakistan. Naeem Rashid.