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Decorated barn, Zalipie, Poland.

“Afghanistan”, images de Roland Michaud. Collection “Rêves et réalités”, Hachette. 1970.

Subterranean room in the House of Amphitrite

Roman Empire, Tunisia

(Roman Mosaics Across the Empire March 30–September 12, 2016, Getty Villa)

In the colossal, cathedral sized water tank beneath the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, several heads of Medusa have been used as pillar bases for the past 1.500 years. It is not entirely known where the heads came from, but they were believed to be taken from some other Roman ruin. The heads are upside down or sideways to inhibit the power of the Gorgon Medusa's gaze.

The water tank's existence was forgotten for hundreds of years, despite being beneath the Hagia Sophia. When it was rediscovered, explorers found fish inside of it.

Four marble columns knotted, located at the Trento Cathedral in Italy, 13th century CE.

I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée

They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe

“A Palestinian home in the Old City of Jerusalem decorated with Hajj painting - marks indicating Muslim inhabitants have made a pilgrimage. The house is painted with red and green 'spots' two of the colours of the Palestinian flag, the other colours being white and black. The drawing centre left are of the Kaaba (Cube) in Mecca and the Al Aqsa Mosque (Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem and possibly the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Jerusalem, April 1982.”

Photographed by Homer Sykes.

Japonya: Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka

thinking about her (old stockholm telephone tower in use 1887-1913)

"...some Stockholmers said that the [lines] were so dense they would obscure the sun," said the then 90-year-old Karl-Väinö Tahvanainen, who worked in the tower, in an interview with SvD in 2012 (x)

al-zidani mosque in tiberias, palestine. it was built in the 1740s and named for zahir al-umar, the ruler of the region at the time, who'd commissioned its construction.

since the 1948 palestinian nakba, it is abandoned. it remains the last standing islamic landmark in tiberias, and the occupying government does not allow its restoration.

Brice Portolano (French, b. Aix-en-Provence, France, based Paris, France) - Somewhere in the Bosnian forests, 2014, Photography

— Sarah Schindler, Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment