Building a new mosque is often a hot-button topic in Germany. Euro-Islam architecture is paving the way to bridging the cultural gap. German mosques are rarely impressive and grand. Islamic houses of ...
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This austere stack of limestone ...
Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th Imam of Nizari Ismaili Muslims, died February 4. He was 88. The Aga Khan’s eldest son, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, has been designated the Aga Khan V.
The project has several buildings with different scales ... forum and exterior windows inspired by the mosaics found in Islamic architecture. This social housing scheme has a complex history ...
The Burj Khalifa was the most significant building of 2010 Dubai's meteoric ... Smith was also inspired by examples of Islamic architecture; in particular, the 9th-century Great Mosque of Samarra ...
But is it true that Romanesque architecture’s debt to Muslim ... not only Romanesque’s overwhelming stylistic debt to Islamic building, but also the presence of superior Islamic workmen ...