Tag: Architecture
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Jalis
Jalis Inside Isa Khan Tomb, New Delhi, India 2026 Inside Humayun’s Tomb, New Delhi, India 2026 Jalis, the stone screens with geometric patterns found in tombs and other buildings of Indo-Islamic architecture, can also be found in Hindu and Jain temples and palaces. The play of light and dark they create is a feast for…
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Niqab and hijab
Niqab and hijab Two niqabis and a hijabi at Isa Khan’s tomb. They choose for themselves or let their husbands or families decide how they dress in public, but they keep their smartphones close at hand, just like you and me. Photo of the week: Isa KhanTomb, New Delhi, India 2026
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Contrails
Contrails A quasi exhaustive description: contrails in the firmament, caught at three minutes past four between the church of Saint-Antoine and its mirror image in Salavre. Photo of the week: Église Saint-Antoine, Salavre, France 2025
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Kornhaus
Kornhaus In one photo, a giant crane appears to have placed a tall tower in position, while in another, a similar crane is dwarfed by the same tall tower. A play on perspective between giant cranes and the 118-metre-high Swissmill Tower in Zurich. Photos of the week: Kornhaus an der Limat, Zürich, Switzerland 2025
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Planks
Planks Motionless planks, lively as water. Photo of the week: Chalet-wood, Chesières, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 2025
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Saenredam’s St. Bavo
Saenredam’s St. Bavo In the Rijksmuseum, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery in London or the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, you can come face to face with an interior of the Great St. Bavo Church in Haarlem painted by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. He made at least 12 of them, each from a different…
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The Great St. Bavo
The Great St. Bavo The Great St. Bavo Church has stood in the old centre of Haarlem, just 20 km from Amsterdam, since 1520. Initially Catholic, it was taken over by the Calvinists in 1578 with some violence and accompanying destruction. The well-preserved Gothic building still serves as a Protestant church but is now mainly…
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Half-timbered
Half-timbered The beauty of asymmetry in the patterns of old half-timbered houses. Photo of the week: Half-timbered house (detail), Chamandre, Ain, France 2025
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La beauté a sa méthode
La beauté a sa méthode Each one in its own way: one of the oldest houses in Bourg-en-Bresse in the traditional style with stone, earth and wood construction elements, and the method of Jeanne Piaubert with its ‘unique treatment for divine skin and hair’. Photo of the week: La Demeure Hugon, Bourg-en-Bresse, France 2025
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