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Restored historic apartment in the Mouassine Museum, Marrakesh, with examples of carved and painted decoration in wood and stucco. Traditional houses in Morocco are usually centered around a large internal courtyard, the wast ad-dar, and are characterized by a focus on interior decoration rather than on external appearance.
A riad garden in the Bahia Palace of Marrakesh, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A riad or riyad (Arabic: رياض, romanized: riyāḍ) is a type of garden courtyard historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb).
It has long been customary to decorate houses and palaces with large open spaces and gardens dominated by fragrant flowers, fountains, canals, wells, ponds, [2] frescoes with mythological scenes, and marble medallions (on walls), forming ornate but harmonious shapes with the intention to represent the Garden of the Paradise as imagined by the Classical and Muslim architects.
The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida is a grand example of Mediterranean Revival style. Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century.
The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (Spanish: Arquitectura neocolonial española), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. [1]
Mediterranean Style House may refer to: . Mediterranean Style House (116 Walnut Street, Nogales, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky.. Courtyards are common elements in both Western and Eastern building patterns and have been used by both ancient and contemporary architects as a typical and traditional building feature. [1]