Regional

Windcatchers, citadels, water works and village houses.

5 entries

Windcatchers of Yazd — Passive cooling towers channeling desert breezes into interiors.

Karim Khan Citadel — Hybrid palace-fortress built by Karim Khan Zand.

Masuleh — A village climbing a steep green slope, where the roof of each house is the street for the one above.

Arg-e Bam — The largest adobe complex in the world, a walled city and citadel on the Silk Road, being restored after the 2003 earthquake.

Shushtar Hydraulic System — Weirs, bridges, canals and water mills that turned the Karun river to irrigate a plain, in use since the Sasanians.