Thursday, May 10, 2007

Wind Tower

Another one from the Sharjah Heritage area, United Arab Emirates. This is of a traditional building with a wind tower, the wind tower and lots of windows in the construction kept the houses very well ventilated and cool during the hot summer months of the desert.

2 comments:

  1. have never heard of wind tower before.....though am aware of Hawa Mahal of Jaipur, India ....very practical really

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  2. Yeah wind towers are a middle east thing very traditional, quite practical and the architecture is soothing to the eye.

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