Architecture Plan of Bab Al Bahrain from 1945

Double click for larger image.Reading through the Qatar Digital Library's massive digitised archives of British colonial......

The Forgotten Art of Bahraini Architecture (and Coral!)

The history of architecture in Bahrain, like many other aspects, is a neglected one. At present, the Kingdom is home to......

Russia's Mini-Jerusalem

A lot of the feedback I've received from the previous post about Jerusalem was the 'mini-Jerusalem' I had mentioned, so......

Singapore's Token Conservation

Ann Hills examines the reconstruction of Singapore's 19th-century buildings to accommodate tourism. Worldhistoryblogspot.blogspot.com......