There is something very special about Nepali architecture, which is hilariously not the architecture itself, but more the open space in between and how the buildings interact with it. I think the only comparable open space planning I’ve seen is the acropolis in Greece: sacred buildings of different height and shape gathered around a public open space, with the air flowing pauseless through and the light creating a timeless mystic atmosphere, where people meet and chat and all the religious iconography is melted inseparably within the buildings, which seem to have grown from the earth and show an incredible delicacy from the smallest details to the bigger picture of the edifices itself.
Kathmandu Durbar Square
Baktapur Durbar Square
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On the map, it seems like a scar in the urban tissue
Public fontain
Carved wooden door
Exquisit wood carvings are inserted like
jewels in the plain brick facades
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On the map, it seems like a scar in the urban tissue
Wooden façade of the Royal palace in Kathmandu Durbar Square
Wooden statues and carvings on the façade mixing
buddhist and hindu iconography
Other carvings always found around the temples
Showing a couple (probably Shiva and Parvati) as
The creation gods and depicting erotic scenes
The carvings where painted with colors, but in most temples they are gone
Metal ornaments on the roofs seem
like tissues hanging from the top
The pigeons on the roofs
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Carved wooden door
Exquisit wood carvings are inserted like
jewels in the plain brick facades
