Chaoticantiromantic - Suren.

Although located in the heart of Chongging, one of China's mega cities, Luohan Temple was constructed over 1000 years ago. Its ancient corridors lead to worn stone depictions of the Buddha while its wooden halls wafts with incense and are adorned with hundreds of local colourful deities.

Max Benirschke, design for a dining room, ca 1904

modern architecture is nice and all, but it's growing so minimal, there's not much personality in the designs anymore. I'm speaking as an Iranian who has seen many, many different traditional architecture styles all over my own country.

in more central parts, there were beautiful, intricate stained glass windows. not only the stained glass, the woodcarving art used to make the window frames was just so beautiful. they on themselves provide the privacy necessary for a room and the colorful glasswork provides both beauty for the interior and soothing mental effects from color theories.

I'm not saying "modern architecture / minimal architecture bad." it's just that in my eyes, we're stripping away beauty and personality from buildings for both convenience and budget problems.

photo on the left is the outer view of the sash window in The Arg of Karim-Khan / Karim-khan Citadel. (Shiraz)

photo on the right is the inner view of the stained glass lattice sash window in The Dolatabad Garden. (Yazd)

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“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

tiddles the church cat

Petra, Jordan

Are we just boy best friends if I regularly picture us going on little adventures together to the tune of the Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack or am I going to have to terms with something soon… ?