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A façade at night, stacked with pointed windows. Most are lit amber from inside, many of them behind a diamond wooden lattice that shows dark against the light; a few are unlit, and one dark window holds a slim crescent.
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Glowing Windows

No. 3 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA façade at night, stacked with pointed windows. Most are lit amber from inside, many of them behind a diamond wooden lattice that shows dark against the light; a few are unlit, and one dark window holds a slim crescent.

What it meansOn the first nights of Ramadan every window in the street is lit late, for prayer, for guests and for suhoor before dawn. The one dark window with the moon is the reminder of why.

Where it worksGraphic and rhythmic, it reads as pattern from across the room and as a lit street close up. For a hallway, a stairwell or a bedroom.

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A long arcade of horseshoe arches seen straight down its length to a lit doorway at the far end. A lantern hangs from the crown of every other arch and throws a pool of light on the stone floor, the arches growing smaller and darker into the distance.Arcade at NightNo. 4
One cream candle standing on the sill of a pointed niche in a lime-washed wall. The niche is warm gold with the flame, and the glow softens the grey plaster around it and fades to shadow at the edges.Candle NicheNo. 5
A straight path at night, lined on both sides by lanterns on posts that grow larger as they come towards you. At the far end a dome and two slender minarets stand black against the indigo sky, with a crescent and stars above.Lantern PathNo. 6
A pointed window in a plum room at night. On the sill a round brass lantern burns beside a small dish of dates, and through the glass are the indigo sky, a crescent, a few stars and the dark shape of a dome with its gold finial.Lamp in the WindowNo. 7
Lanterns hung on a line above dark still water at night. Each lantern glows amber and its reflection lies below as a column of broken gold ripples, with a few stars in the sky above.Lanterns over WaterNo. 8
Hexagonal pierced lanterns hung in staggered rows on indigo, each with a small roof, ring and finial. Three patterns of piercing alternate, eight-point stars, a grid of dots and rings of small sparks, each lantern lit amber behind its brass and hung on its own thin rod.Pierced LanternsNo. 9
A tall façade of horseshoe-arched windows in tight rows. Roughly half are lit, each showing a faint lattice of stars behind the glass, and the rest are dark indigo, so the lit windows scatter over the wall like a chart of stars.Lit FaçadeNo. 10
Fanous standing on their feet in a row along a dark wooden ledge: hexagonal, tall and round-bellied, from knee-high to the small tin ones children carry. Their windows make one line of light across a plum dark room, and each throws a soft ring onto the shelf.Lamp RowNo. 11

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