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2. Moorish architecture - Wikipedia

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   A riad (sometimes spelled riyad; Arabic: رياض) is an interior garden found in many Moorish palaces and mansions. It is typically rectangular and divided into four parts along its central axes, with a fountain at its middle. [54]

3. Fountain - Wikipedia

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   In addition to providing drinking water, fountains were used for decoration and to celebrate their builders. Roman fountains were decorated with bronze or stone masks of animals or heroes. In the Middle Ages, Moorish and Muslim garden designers used fountains to create miniature versions of the gardens of paradise.

4. Riad (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   [8] [9] Historically, the term referred to a type of interior garden common to historic Moorish architecture in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula) and North Africa. In particular, it referred to rectangular courtyard garden that is symmetrically divided into four parts along its central axes and typically has a fountain at its middle. [10]: 57 [8]

5. Islamic garden - Wikipedia

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   According to D. Fairchild Ruggles, it is "a magnificent site that evokes historic Islamic gardens in its powerful geometries, sunken garden beds, Mamluk-style polychromatic stonework, axial water channels, and playing fountains, all interpreted in a subdued modern design." As a modern park, it was built as part of a larger urban scheme ...

6. Generalife - Wikipedia

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   The Patio de la Acequia in the 19th century, before the installation of modern fountains. In the Nasrid period, the Generalife was an almunia (from Arabic al-munya, meaning "farm" [8]), a country villa that was used both as a private retreat by elites as well as a farming estate with agricultural functions.

7. Moorish Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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   The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for ...