Incredible Architecture of Grand Mosque in Mecca In 2020

Saudi Arabia has started at the biggest extension ever of the most holy place for Muslims, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The Mosque will have to give place to 2 million pilgrims.There will be 400 000 square meters surface added to the Mosque. 

 

There will also be more places with shadow and the buildings will be connected to each other with bridges. There is no knowledge about the cost of this construction or when it will be finished.

The Great Turkish Mosque in Cologne, Germany

The Cologne Central Mosque (German: DITIB-Zentralmoschee Köln, Turkish: Merkez-Camii) is a building currently under construction and commissioned by German Muslims of the Organization DITIB for a large, representativeZentralmoschee (central mosque) in Cologne, Germany. After some controversy, the project won the approval of Cologne's city council.

The mosque is designed in Ottoman architectural style, with glass walls, two minarets and a dome. The mosque is proposed to have a bazaar as well as other secular areas intended for interfaith interactions. As the mosque will be one of Europe's biggest, it has been criticized for its size, particularly the height of the minarets. 

The 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m2) mosque will cost £15–20 million to build, aiming to house 2,000 to 4,000 worshippers. The proposed mosque will be funded by Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği (DITIB), a branch of the Turkish government's religious affairs authority, bank loans, and donations from 884 Muslim associations. Cologne's St. Theodore Catholic Church has also decided to fundraise for the mosque. The architect of the mosque is Paul Böhm, who specializes in building churches. via

The construction of the mosque faced a lot of criticism in the city of Cologne, one of the German cities were even start construction in 2009 and is now on the verge of completion of the final touches him.

The building of the largest mosque for Muslims in Germany and in this central area in particular has been criticism  where some people complain of high minarets and others are skeptical that it could become a nuclear reactor, and from there they want to become a monastery, but in the end became the central mosque in the city and decided to built the way Ottoman architectural style.

The designer of this mosque said that he is happy that he has had the opportunity to participate in the construction of this edifice unique to a unique group of people, "Muslims."

 

Watch How China combat Those Who Are Sleeping Under The Bridges

China has made a network of concrete nails under the bridges to prevent the homeless and those in need rest and sleep under it. A solution, in my opinion, costs a lot of many, which can help those poor people, instead of prevented them from sleeping under bridge , helping them to have their own house. 

I've read also that this project was made to prevent cars from turning to the other side through area under the bridge, this method is forbidden, so this is why they but these stones.

The Most Romantic Building In China

This house was built in 2007 in An Hui Province in China.This house was designed by Hefei University of Technology the design have the scale 50:1. the most incredible thing is the escalators and the staircase for the main piano building which are houses by the transparent Violin . This design displays various plans and development prospects for newly developed area.

Incredible Photos of The Pyramids of Sudan

When we hear the word pyramids come to mind immediately Pyramids of Giza.

Yes, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt is arguably the famous and the largest and pyramid Cheops is the only miracle of the Seven Wonders that still remain to this day even though it is built for more than 4500 years!

But in this thread will not talk about the Pyramids of Giza .. But we will talk about these pyramids which built in Sudan

These pyramids are known today as (Abajrawih Pyramids) this name is related to the Abajrawih village near the town of Shendi , about two hundred miles to the north-east of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. The scientific name is (the Pyramids of Meroe), one of a great kingdom called Nubian (Kush).

Kingdom of Kush, which dominated the southern part of the Nile Basin to the south of Ancient Egypt originated by a thousand years from birth almost, but they were not the first Kingdom in this region, but is an extension of the civilizations of Nubian oldest oldest civilization originated about three thousand years BC in the city (Karma) that its effects are still remaining near the border between modern Egypt and Sudan amaze the Archaeologists by its Featured planned.

Before 1500 years, the pharaoh Tuthmosis III ordered to build the city of Nabta following the occupation of the territory of Nubia to be a center for the region south of Egypt, and remained north of the Sudan (which knew Bekkouche later) belonging to the ruling pharaoh of five centuries left, during which many of the effects such as a temple of the god Amon

In the year 1070 BC, The Pharaoh Deputy from the area of ​​Kush territory's the independence of the territory from the management of Pharaonic and took the Nabta (which is located a long side the current city Khartoum , 400 kilometers north of Khartoum ) as its capital, and the kings of Kush keep the traditional of Pharaonic by burying their kings in the tombs of the ownership of luxury in the form of pyramids, as like the form of the Egyptian pyramids in an area such Nuri

In the sixth century BC and after the Persian invasion of Egypt collapsed, trade between them and the city Nabta, particularly the gold trade, and the Nabta lost its vital role and lost more in the interest of the city at that time, which is the city of Meroe, which in turn became the new capital of the Kingdom of Kush . 

In Meroe, located on the east bank of the Nile River became the architectural style of the Pyramids of Kush which is more distinguished of his Pharaonic . They are shorter in length and with a narrower base so that the proportion of height of the pyramid to its base area is larger than those found in Egyptian pyramids

The archaeologists Divide area of Meroe to three main graves areas: north and south and west All of them include 34 king and 11 queen and hundreds of other members of royalty and footnote buried in fifty pyramid in this area were built during a period of more than a thousand of years from 720 BC to the year 350 AD.

 

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Skyscrapers In Dubai Soaked In The Fog

Dubai has been able in a short period to become one of the most distinctive architectural paintings in the world, It includes today a large number of distinctive skyscrapers that make it closer to the cities of the future, especially the annexation of the highest skyscraper in the world, Burj Dubai, up 828 meters.

How this modern city will look like when it covered by fog? To see the answer in these special pictures by the photographer Ian Boyle

Ian said that the fog covers Dubai heavily twice a year in March and August when the seasons change, so high humidity with fog covering the city in the morning makes it appears closer to the science fiction cities !

Huilo-Huilo, The Magic Mountain Hotel In Chile

Do you want to travel to Chile  then don't forget to visit the mountain hotel their. This hotel is located in Patagonia, in Southern  Chile. This hotel as a unique stunning architecture that differs from the other hotels you know. It has a waterfall in the top middle of the Huilo-Huilo biological reserve uniquely shaped hotel  with narrow swinging wooden bridge.

The Magic Mountain Hotel and Hotel Baobab are in the heart of the Huilo Huilo nature reserve. The architecture, combined with the forest setting and has four star international service.

Anasazi Pueblo Ruins by Rick Schafer

These Anasazi Pueblo People are one of the ancient people of Native American, they were lived approximately from the 12 century B.C.  These ancient peoples are known by there impressive pueblo homes, made of mud, stone, or carved into canyon walls, which are today called the Anasazi Ruins. You can find these ruins at many places in the American Southwest, including Mesa Verde National Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Dark Canyon Wilderness, and other sites predominately located in the states of Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. All of these ruins are sacred places and should be treated with respect when visited.

The 2010 Menton Lemon Festival in France

Menton is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic located on the Franco-Italian border, within the confines of the Cote d’Azur and the Ligurian Alps. It is well known for its warm micro-climate favorable to lemon, tangerine, and orange groves.

 

Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings

 If you are bored panda like me, you know that the best way to fight boredom is finding all kind of weird stuff.

And now, that you’ve found that page, you are just about to kill your boredom. Do you love architecture?

Strangebuildings.com has a wonderful collection of the world’s most unusual architecture and together with Bored Panda presents you an incredible list of 33 strangest buildings in the world, and best of all, it’s not just another random list, but it is based on 4.520 unique visitor votes. So don’t blame panda for this exact order, blame yourself for voting this way, or for not voting at all. (the voting took place here.)

Well enough of those boring talks, prepare your hand for scrolling down the list, while bored panda eats another bamboo leaf.

P.S.: if you want to find out more information about the building (date it was built, architect, interior shots) don’t forget to visit Strangebuildings.com.

1. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)

Endless Staircase

 Photograph by Philipp Klinger

This Amazing sculpture was designed by Olafur Eliasson. It’s a 9-meter high double spiral staircase made of steel located at the entrance of the KPMG office building in Munich, Germany. The stair is called Umschreibung (Rewriting), and was completed in 2004.

In my opinion it's a very amazing sport device, it's a real sport actions in which we activate and build our Muscles.

via Philipp Klinger on Flickr