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Chefchaouen door, Morocco (by Gordon Laing)

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# architecture # morocco

downtown (by fotobananas)

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# architecture # new york

Handelskade (by Chaim Frank)

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# curaçao # antilles # netherlands # architecture # sunset

Seville (by CameliaTWU)

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# seville # spain # fountain # architecture

Rear Window (by Shane Vincent)

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# architecture # black and white # window

Nagahama Castle, cherry blossoms in full bloom (by Diary or Notes)

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# architecture # cherry blossoms # japan

The Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali, the largest mud brick building in the world, at sunrise.

The original mosque, dating from the 13th or 14th century, was a ruin when a French explorer reported seeing it in 1828, and was later demolished. It was only in 1907, by which time Djenné had become a French colonial outpost, that the mosque we see today was constructed on the site of the first one.

The climate in Mali—long hot, dry stretches broken by torrential rains—is rough on mud-brick architecture. Fissures and leaks quickly develop and grow. So every year since the Great Mosque was built, it has required a mud replastering, which the citizens of Djenné undertake as a festival event called the Crepissage de la Grand Mosquée.

The replastering has preserved the structure but also, over time, subtly altered it, rounding and softening its contours, giving it a molten, biomorphic look—the visual equivalent of Malian Islam, some say—insistently powerful without being harsh.

(Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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# architecture # islam # mali

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Palmenhaus Schonbrunn, Vienna (by Anomieus)

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# architecture # staircase # vienna # austria

kateoplis:

For Rent

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# architecture # france

The world’s highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge has opened to traffic in Hunan province, central China. The Aizhai suspension bridge links two tunnels 1,176 metres apart, carrying traffic 355 metres above the foot of Dehang Canyon. (Photo: Quirky China News/Rex Features)

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# architecture # bridges # china # dehang canyon # aizhai suspension bridge

1) The Tappan Zee Bridge, which is likely to be replaced soon, is being reimagined for alternative uses. (Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)

2) At a workshop at Cooper Union in Manhattan, students were redesigning the bridge for pedestrian use. This design from the workshop addresses the potential monotony of a three-mile linear park by breaking up the bridge into multiple zoned gardens. In this plan, two walls stretch from the lowest point to the highest point of the structure’s span. (Sean Gaffney, Karim Ahmed, Jinjoo Yang, and Genan Peng)

3) A sketch from Milagros Lecuona, a Columbia professor and a leader of the Tappan Bridge Park Alliance, also suggesting a casual pedestrian thoroughfare.

4) A digital rendering created for the Master of Urban Planning studio course at Columbia. (Greg Mirza-Avakyan)

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# new york # architecture # tappan zee bridge