Now, that's what I call architecture

Chand Baori in Abhaneri, India:


The walls are staircases down to a well.  Not suitable to my local geology, unfortunately.

I find it hard to resist clickbait like "20 places you didn't believe could exist."  Here's another, a fairy-home in Romania.  Lately there's been a rash of links to eye-popping waterfalls in that part of the world.  You have to wonder how this one didn't show up in the Lord of the Rings:



China is unimaginably big and various.  If this site were in the West, we'd have been seeing images of it more often than we see the Grand Canyon, but it's a first for me:


2 comments:

  1. The walls are staircases down to a well. Not suitable to my local geology, unfortunately.

    Just don't let the pumps fail, T.

    Eric Hines

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  2. Funny, that step-well was one we used as an example of an interesting underground architectural space in studio discussion and exercises dealing with siting. Good stuff.

    The worlds a big place, still, no matter what anyone says.

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