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30-Apr-2014

domed ceiling at Khāneh-ye Borujerdihā / خانهٔ بروجرد

Kashan / کاشان‎

Borujerdi House was built in 1857 by architect Ustad Ali Maryam, for the bride of Haji Mehdi Borujerdi, a wealthy merchant. The bride came from the affluent Tabatabaei family, for whom Ali Maryam had built the Tabatabaei House some years earlier.

It consists of a rectangular beautiful courtyard, delightful wall paintings by the royal painter Kamal-ol-molk, and three 40 meter tall wind towers which help cool the house to unusually cool temperatures. It has 3 entrances, and all the classic signatures of traditional Persian residential architecture, such as biruni and daruni (andarun). The house took eighteen years to build using 150 craftsmen.

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Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)21-Dec-2014 08:30
What absolutely beautiful image! V
Paolo
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