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 | Restoration Work Near Humayun's Tomb Uncovers Early Sunken Garden |
A large-scale revitalization effort underway on Humayun's Tomb and nearby sites in Delhi has led to the discovery of the oldest known sunken garden in India.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is leading the Urban Renewal Initiative in the Humayun's Tomb - Nizamuddin Basti of Delhi, India. Restoration work on the grounds surrounding Isa Khan's Tomb, located within the renewal project zone, reveal that the original garden around the tomb was a meter below the current level. This garden is decades older than the Humayun Tomb Gardens.
For details on the discovery and subsequent restoration work on the earliest known sunken garden in India, see The Hindu. You can learn more about the Nizamuddin renewal initiative at the project's website or its Facebook page.
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| Iraq Museum on Google Street View |
The National Museum of Iraq, reopened to the public since March 2011, can now be explored with Google Street View.
A team from Google took photographs from within the museum using Street View technology and specialized equipment for detail views of the artifacts. This was the company's first ever effort to photo-document the interior collection of an arts institution. The resulting product, freely available to all, offers panoramic views of the inside of the museum and its collection. Users can navigate through the museum's old building at their leisure and zoom in on high-resolution images of the artworks and cultural objects on display. The simulation is available in the Google Street View Gallery and on the Iraq Museum website, which has an extra feature that allows users to select which gallery they want to explore.
Learn more about the project by reading a firsthand account by Alex Starns, who took part in the initiative.
Photographer and source: Baghdadi, Wikipedia
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| Middle Ground / Middle East: Religious Sites in Urban Contexts |
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ArchNet is pleased to announce the video recordings of the Yale School of Architecture symposium "Middle Ground / Middle East: Religious Sites in Urban Contexts" in the Digital Library. Focused on the role of religious sites representing the three Abrahamic traditions in shaping contemporary urban environments in the Middle East, the symposium addressed questions such as:
- how has the persistence of religious conviction forced us to broaden our understanding of urban space in relation to social identity?
- how do religious sites today engage contemporary concerns regarding urban regeneration, economic growth, and cultural heritage within the region?
Recognizing that sacred buildings and sites are often representative of division, the symposium instead emphasized the importance of religious sites as an expression of a layering of religious traditions, inter-faith relationships, and long practices of learning and tolerance.
Each of the five symposium sessions is available in high and low resolution and features talks by architects active in the design of sacred sites with responses by scholars.
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