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      This Crescent Moon Tower boasts a 33-storey down-turned half moon on the banks of the Caspian Sea. It is designed to accommodate a children’s library, a conference facility, a restaurant, multiple cafes, and an open-air observation platform. Though it was just a proposal, there’s a big possibility that it will be built immediately. It is said to be completed by the year 2015 along with its sister project...

JODHPUR CITY    The empty hills of the Thar Desert are a spectacular setting for the Rajput fortress city of Jodhpur. The forbidding 15th century Mehrangh Fort, perhaps the most majestic fort in the whole of India, looms over the city from the top of the hill. Its walls, up to 36 m (120 ft) high and 21 m (70 ft) wide, seem to sprout out of the hilltop- an extention of the rock on which they are built. The Mehrangarh is a massive...

FALLING WATER IN PENNSLYVANIA GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE, PENNYSLYVANIA S.C. JOHNSON RESEARCH TOWER, WISCONSIN HONEY COMB HOUSE IN STANFORD WRIGHT'S RESIDENCE IN ILLINOIS ...

BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA Buddhist architecture emerged slowly in the period following the Buddha’s life, along with the Hindu temple architecture. The major features of this style are stupas or topes, stambhas or lats, chaitayas, viharas or monasteries. Though primitive Buddhism rejected any form of image worship, they represented Buddha by means of symbols like stupa, bidhi tree indicating enlightment, wheels of law, as first sermon as...