The Palm Jumeirah

Now man can achieve the sea and make it home. The Palm Jumeirah is an artificial island created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government. It is one of three islands called The Palm Islands which will increase Dubai’s shoreline by a total of 520 km. The Palm Jumeirah is the smallest and the original of three Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and Palm Deira) under development by Nakheel. It is located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

Architect: various
Location: on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates
Date: 2001
Style: Postmodern
Construction: created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government
Type: artificial island

Dolmabahce Palace

Dolmabahce means “Filled up Garden”. Dolmabahce Palace built in 19th century is one of the most glamorous palaces in the world. It was the administrative center of the late Ottoman Empire with the last of Ottoman Sultans was residing there. The construction of the Palace completed in 13 years and cost five million Ottoman gold pounds (the equivalent of 35 tons of gold). After the foundation of the Turkish Republic in Ankara, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk transferred all government functions to the youthful capital but on his visits to Istanbul Ataturk occupied only a small room at Dolmabahce Palace as his own. He stayed, welcomed his foreign guests and made a practical center for national, historical and language congress and for international conferences.

Dolmabahce palace has a great meaning for Turkish people since the supreme leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had used the palace as a residence and spent the most serious period of his illness.

Designer: Garabet Balyan
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 1843-1856
Type: Palace

Blue Mosque

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and was the capital of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is one of several mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque has become one of the greatest tourist attractions of Istanbul.
The design of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is the culmination of two centuries of both Ottoman mosque and Byzantine church development. It incorporates some Byzantine elements of the neighboring Hagia Sophia with traditional Islamic architecture and is considered to be the last great mosque of the classical period. The architect has ably synthesized the ideas of his master Sinan, aiming for overwhelming size, majesty and splendour, but the interior lacks his creative thinking.

Architect: Unknown
Location: Istanbul
Date: 1609-1616
Style: Islamic Ottoman Turkish (considered the last great mosque of the classical time)
Construction: brick and stone
Type: Mosque

Duplex experience in Kabul.

Most of we know that Afghanistan is a poor country like us or below then us. Now the picture is change. Duplex house is now very common in Afghanistan; it’s the fashion there now. Kabul, Lisa Moriam, Majar-E-Sarif and other stat is now full of fashionable house like this. Those house is build after the Afghanistan wear, beside the Holland embassies. Those situated in capital of Afghanistan Kabul and it build in after 2003. Those building are establishing by private funding.

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This picture is from Korola posta, safarata Holland, kocha makdum, Shar-E-naw Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan. The style is Duplex house. Construction by Breakstone and types is Resident. My friend Roney helps me from Afghanistan.

Live in Kabul Hill

This is the picture of Afghanistan. Till now people are live in hill. Actually some lower middle and lower class people are live in there.
That situation is happen in rural area and undeveloped area in Afghanistan. Moreover Afghanistan has very few area is low land.

The country is full of hill. In this area people face some problem like insufficient supply of water, in summer its very hot, in winter its covered by ice or snow and difficult transportation facility. Moreover they are happy here.

Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame de Paris (French for "Our Lady of Paris", meaning the church in Paris dedicated to the Virgin Mary), often known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. While a major tourist destination, it is still used as a Roman Catholic cathedral (archbishop of Paris). Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered the finest example of French gothic architecture.

Architect: Maurice de Sully
Location: Parvis de Notre Dame. 75004 Paris, France.
date: 1163 to 1250
Style: Gothic
Construction: cut stone
Type: Church

Château de Chenonceau

The original manor was torched in 1411 to punish owner Jean Marques for an act of sedition. He rebuilt a castle and fortified mill on the site in the 1430s. Subsequently, his indebted heir Pierre Marques sold the castle to Thomas Bohier, Chamberlain for King Charles VIII of France in 1513. Bohier destroyed the existing castle and built an entirely new residence between 1515 and 1521; the work was sometimes overseen by his wife Katherine Briçonnet, who delighted in hosting French nobility, including King François L on two occasions.

Architect: Philibert Delorme
Location: Loire Valley, north-western France.
Date: 1521
Style: French Renaissance (mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance)
Construction: Stone
Type: Palace