A team of collaborating Italian architects is sharing with us their rather unusual spin on mosque design. The solar panel-covered "Wall-Dome" concept was the group's entry to the highly debated architecture competition to design the Central Mosque of Prishtina, Kosovo [...]. The team includes the architects Paolo Venturella, Angelo Balducci, Luca Ponsi, and Paolo Gaeta. — bustler.net
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oh my. it looks like you squeeze the squishy ball thus sending everyone praying inside flying straight into the mihrab which maybe the architects imagine is a vortex to a life thereafter or perhaps energizing the green walll? squish...shoot...squish ..shoot...
also, the mihrab is not an altar or an icon. yes, it marks a direction....but it isn't really the focus; , it usually is discreetly incorporated within the architecture ..discreetly, not discretely as here.
the architects have dealt with religion in a supermarket sort of way (here is your kibla wall and here is your prayer space...finito) here with no consideration to the resultant spaces inside or outside. too bad.
simply not a good solution to this problem !
I agree with TMZ.
that mihrab kiils me.
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