A lovely 1855 mosque in Ortaköy.
Balboa Highlands, Granada Hills, California, by Joseph Eichler.
Built with trees felled on-site, a 650-foot-long elevated pathway connects the cabin to the nearest road.
Men meeting at the Fatih Mosque in Amsterdam photographed by Dick Barendsen.
The Essalam Mosque in Rotterdam photographed by Christian van der Kooy
The El Mouhssinine Mosque in North Amsterdam photographed by Dick Barendsen.
The Mevlana Mosque in Rotterdam, photographed by Christian van der Kooy
The House Café evokes colonnaded patterns of mosques, albeit in a secular manner.
Living room, Balboa Highlands, Granada Hills, California, by Joseph Eichler.
Site of the Western Mosque in Amsterdam photographed by Christian van der Kooy.
This previously abandoned granite 18th century farmhouse in the Scottish Highlands was restored and extended by Moxon. The larch and red metal clad addition references the gabled roofline of the original structure and is connected via a glass passageway.
The interior courtyard is a simple cave-like space with slits and fractures along the Qiblah wall that allow daylight into the prayer hall.
Emre Arolat’s 2012 design for the Sancaklar Mosque outside Istanbul challenges the Turkish capital’s ubiquitous soaring domes and patterned minarets. Instead, the firm built the 13,000-square-foot mosque into the side of a hill and clad it in natural stacked slate.
The scene on the balcony of the famed Pierre Loti Cafe near the sacred Eyup Mosque.
Devout Muslims and Western-style tourists congregate outside the Blue Mosque in the Sultanahmet district.
The home faces farmlands, a reservoir, and highlands in the distance.
The restaurant occupies three historical buildings formerly used as a working pier. The half nearest the Embarcadero were the ticketing and baggage rooms--now the lobby and bar--and the room nearest the water was the waiting room (now the dining room, shown here). Photo by Eric Laignel.
Mosque Detail, Djenne, MaliPhoto courtesy Museum for African Art.© Enid Schildkrout
Although the exterior of the Blue Mosque (technically the Sultan Ahmed Mosque) is gorgeous, many say that it’s not Sinan’s masterwork: the sightlines inside are obscured by a number of columns. This is not a problem for the magnificent Hagia Sofia (in background), which sits directly across from the Blue Mosque in Sultanahmet Square.
The bathrooms saw the least significant changes. In the one nearest to the master bedroom, the shower and tub are original. White oak paneling provides continuity between the newly renovated spaces.
A top-down view of the balcony that shows the nook on the west end nearest the kitchen, a flight of stairs that leads to the upper music room/office and a third flight of stairs that leads to the roof.
The mobile cabin can be transported by truck. Guests can enjoy outdoor yoga sessions during the summertime, or visit Den Oever, the nearest town that's within walking distance.
North Haven locals nonplussed by Bobbie Callahan and Ed Hayes’s unusual retreat lit upon its cinematic qualities, calling it “the Strand” after the nearest movie theater on the mainland.
In terms of exterior ornament, the crown has to go to the Hassan II mosque. Built right on the edge of the sea—over the top of what used to be a grand public bath—this mosque was completed in 1993 and was designed by French architect Michel Pinseau for King Hassan II. It's the biggest mosque in Morocco and only one of a few that non-Muslims can visit.
The home is located in The Highlands, a neighborhood designed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1907. The community is made up of 107 homes spread across 400 acres, and it includes walking trails, tennis courts, a community swimming pool, private beach access, and more.
Sandstone facade of the mosque.
The entrance courtyard of the mosque.
The master bath of Highlands Ranch features twin Duravit cabinets with concrete sinks, all lit from above by an automated skylight. SGS' design provides passive cooling when coupled with the garden-level windows. The ocean view shower provides a seamless indoor/outdoor bathing experience.
The Sancaklar Mosque is a privately funded mosque built on the outskirts of Istanbul for the clients’ extended family and the local community. As you can see above, this structure by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture has been radically imagined.
Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Project for the Competition for a National Mosque of Baghdad, 1982, Baghdad, Iraq
You arrive at the Barn Gallery via a meandering driveway through native woodland of Fir, Pine and Alder. Twelve species of Bamboo and several different ornamental grasses integrated with wildflowers will become more evident as the natural landscaping matures. The Bamboo nearest to the house is in spiral galvanized pots fabricated from the left over culvert used for the pre-filtration tower located near the rain storage tank.
When Greg Steinberg and Alexandra Becket, designers and owners of ModOp Design, conceptualized the renovation of their 1939 home in the Moreno Highlands in Silver Lake, their goals were to open it up to the lake's spectacular views and to create a vibrant, modern aesthetic—and to do it all on a budget. To add natural vibrancy and variable depths of color, they used tile selections from Heath Ceramics' Modern Basics line for the kitchen backsplash.
A Counterspace design for a mosque in the Johannesburg suburb of Brixton added a colonnade to a building that had originally been a Dutch Reformed church.
Autoban’s graphic whimsies, where silhouetted animals interact with furniture, also allude to the decorated surfaces and colonnaded patterns in mosques.
A villa in Leuven, Belgium, has an unusual new roof over its garden extension. Instead of being flat on the underside, the steel structure varies in thickness from about 2 inches to 18 inches (with an 8-inch layer of insulation on top). As the ceiling dips, the floor drops: The living area is four steps below the rest of the room. Fix lights from Lucide hang from above. The Highlands sofa is by Patricia Urquiola.
Brio glass mosaic tile Highlands blend.
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