Iranian Architecture-معماری ایران
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Always after a long hour driving towards home a beautiful and light rain could cheer you up, right?! what a better things that pulling over for a moment and let the others pass you by their hurry ...
"Enjoy the moment and capture it ..."
This shot was taken Near Shiraz, Iran
Three shot using Photomatix Pro:
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BEO - Aurora dresses
FAGA - Serena Hairstyle
[the Skinnery] Antonia
HEAD EvoX AVALON
Ascendant - Medusa Nails
Dahlia - La Riviera - Shiraz Bottle
Dahlia - Leah - Earring - Gold Dust
Pure Poison - Ellie Pumps & Socks
Body - Legacy
The Pars Museum is a museum in Shiraz, Fars Province, southern Iran and is located in Nazar Garden.
The octagonal building was the place in which royal guests were hosted during the Zand dynasty of Iran. It was also used for holding official ceremonies.
It is also the burial place of Karim Khan Zand.
Colorful, by Mosque standards, the religious authorities at one point wanted this shut down because it was too brilliant and might distract the faithful in their prayers - fortunately cooler heads prevailed and the mosque survived...
Shiraz
For someone from a temperate climate, it looked a bit dangerous for book storage to use plastic windows, but with not much rainfall, it's probably a safe enough option.
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I was recently gifted a clock from Shiraz, Iran, which incorporates some of the historic Persian craft-art work. Here's a detail.
Radials:
The craft of Khatamkari has existed for more than 700 years and is still practiced in Shiraz.
Delicate and meticulous marquetry has been produced since the Safavid period. Khatam was so popular in the court that princes learned this technique alongside music and painting. Khatam means incrustation and Khatamkari refers to incrustation work. This craft consists in the production of patterns (generally star shaped) with thin sticks of wood (ebony, teak, orange, rose), brass (for golden parts) and camel bones (white parts). Sticks are assembled in triangular beams, themselves assembled and glued in a strict order to create a cylinder 70 cm in diameter, whose cross-section is the main motif: a six-branch star included in a hexagon. These cylinders are cut into shorter cylinders, and then compressed and dried between two wooden plates, before being sliced for the last time, in 1 mm wide trenches. Now sections are ready to be glued on the object to be decorated, before lacquer finishing. The trench can also be softened through heating in order to wrap around objects. Many objects can be decorated in this fashion, such as jewelry/decorative boxes, desks, frames or some musical instruments. Khatam can also be used in Persian miniatures.
Central blue:
Minakari. The art of "Minakari" or "Enamelling" is called "miniature of fire" as well as the decoration of metal and tile. Minakari or Enamelling is the Persian art of painting, colouring and ornamenting the surface of metals by fusing over it brilliant natural colours that are decorated in an intricate design. Mina is the feminine form of Minoo in Persian, meaning heaven. Mina refers to the Azure blue colour of heaven. The Iranian craftsmen of Sasanid era invented this art.
Nightingales:
Another feature is the alternating nightingales (bolbols). These have an association with Shiraz roses.
The Nasīr al-Mulk Mosque ( مسجد نصیر الملک) is located in Shiraz, Iran. Construction of the mosque completed in 1888.
The mosque extensively uses colored glass in its facade, and displays other traditional elements such as panj kāseh-i (five concaves) in its design.
You can find the other picture of this mosque here: www.flickr.com/photos/78339116@N08/8542906530/in/photostr...