It was once called the pearl of the desert. It was mainly used to serve as a venue for the annual Palmyra festival. The whole structure was made up of ashlar stones. Roman Theatre at Palmyra is a Roman theatre within the Syrian desert. The Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, London_©BBC Hulton Picture Library Illustration of the transept of the Crystal Palace_©Hulton Archive/Getty Images Osler’s Crystal Fountain at the Crystal Palace Sydenham_© 4. The towers made it through the hearth but were destroyed in World War II for fear that they were easy markers for German bombers. By the time the palace was losing money and declared bankruptcy by 1911 so the fountains were turned off so when the building caught fire in 1936, there was no water on hand to put out. It was surrounded by a garden and fountain.Īs the whole structure was mainly made of glass in 1866 it caught fire and destroyed the north transept. After the exhibition, this structure was permanently located in Sydenham in southeast London. To build this structure tons of timber and iron were used with 10 million feet of glass. In just over 9 months this 108-foot-tall building was assembled in Hyde Park. Joseph Paxton was inspired by the structure of the giant water lily so he created this design in just 10 days. Crystal Palace, LondonĬrystal Palace was an iconic building built in 1851 on World’s Fair-type expo. The demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992_©Sanjay Sharma/INDIAPIX NETWORK Rear view of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya before it was demolished_©Wikimedia Commons 3. After a 28-year dispute on 5th august, 2020 Hindus won and it was decided to build a Ram Mandir on that land. On 6th December 1992, it was demolished by Hindus due to this dispute. This mosque was demolished by ‘kar sevaks’ who claimed that on the land in which this mosque was built is the birthplace of Hindu god Ram. This mosque was built by Mir Baqi by the order of Mughal king Babur. But Babri was important because of its distinct style. Its architectural style has also been seen in Delhi Sultanate and Jamali Kamili Mosque. It follows the Indo-Islamic style of architecture.
Babri Masjid, Indiaīabri Masjid was a mosque built in 1528 -29 in Ayodhya, India. 6th-7th c C.E., stone, stucco, paint, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Buddha destroyed 2001 _©Carlos Ugarte, CC BY-NC 2.0 2. 6th-7th c C.E., stone, stucco, painted, 120 feet high, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, destroyed 2001_©Dr. East Buddha_©Pierre Le Bigot, NC-ND 2.0 East Buddha, c. Now the Bamiyan Buddhas are displayed there in 3D projections and the event is called “A Night with Buddha”. They began to destroy the structure with guns and artillery and when these supplies proved ineffective, they progressed to mines and a rocket. In march 2001 the Taliban began to destroy the two monumental Buddha statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley. These two Buddhas are just part of the structure all around the valley like stupas, smaller seated and standing Buddhas, and wall paintings in caves, spread in and around surrounding valleys. As these are great examples of a confluence of Gupta, Sassanian, and Hellenistic artistic styles, once they were the most important standing status within the world. In Buddhas of Bamiyan, there were two monumental statues of the 6th century carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley of central Afghanistan standing together. These buildings also have a lot to offer and hence it’s really necessary to know about them.
We are not able to see them as some of them got demolished due to purpose, whereas some became collateral damage, and some just got destroyed by time or nature. But isn’t it true that we lost lots of major things in our past? Yes, we do and here in the history of architecture also we lost a lot of valuable buildings throughout time. When we are studying architecture or researching about building here also it is very important to know every aspect of that. But is there any need for these talkings right now? Well, this theory applies to everything. But this is not right, one should always balance three of them together. Sometimes we are so into the present that we don’t care about the past and future, whereas sometimes we are so worried about the future that we forget about the present and past, and sometimes we are so into our past that we just leave our present and future.
One person is influenced by three phases of their life – past, present, and future.
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