Geometric shapes are very typical design patterns here in Saudi Arabia. This is the ceiling of a theater of Effat University, a female institution for higher learning in Jeddah. I love how the cut outs and the lights make a pattern on the walls below it.
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Beautifully detailed!
Very nice image and unlike a lot of design in Saudi Arabia its authentically Islamic or Arab in design not a pastiche of the worst from Europe. (Just thin of that awful clock tower in Mecca.)
Hi William - Variations on this star pattern is very familiar in Middle Eastern art. It's quite attractive.
Hi Jerry - I have to agree. I like these traditional patterns much better than some of the modern stuff I have seen that has become so popular.
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