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The Tilla-Kari Madrasa stands as a seventeenth-century educational complex situated on Samarkand's Registan square which features a central courtyard surrounded by vaulted arcades and an iwan that accesses a mosque with its interior surfaces adorned…

The funerary complex of Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand features a narrow processional corridor that contains mausoleums that display their exterior walls through intense turquoise and cobalt tilework. The complex follows a sequence of vaulted spaces and…

The dynastic mausoleum of Timur exists at Gur-e-Amir in Samarkand with its tall ribbed turquoise dome resting above a brick chamber which is accessed through a monumental iwan entrance. The interior design of the space features marble walls and…

The Shah Mosque in Isfahan stands as a large four-iwan congregational mosque which faces Naqsh-e Jahan Square from its southern position through its massive turquoise dome and its tall minarets and its ornate tiled entrance that faces diagonally…

The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque stands as a royal mosque which occupies a small space on Naqsh-e Jahan Square through its single cream-colored dome and its lack of minarets. The bent corridor leads visitors toward a domed sanctuary which receives its…

Ben’s Chili Bowl occupies a once-modest early-20th-century theater building whose architecture has evolved into one of Washington, D.C.’s most recognizable cultural symbols. Built in 1910 as the Minnehaha Theater, the structure’s brick commercial…

Ponce City Market is a vast early-20th-century industrial complex that merges the architectural language of American warehouse construction with subtle Art Deco flourishes, most prominently displayed in its central clock tower. Built in 1926 as a…

A modern museum building with climate control, built in seismic isolation systems to protect the cultural artifacts in its collection. All the ammenities of a modern building. Built in a way that can blend in with the Daibutsuden buildings…