Tracery...

Aljaferia Palace, Zaragoza, Spain

I have always been drawn to the delicate art of tracery and latticework in architecture. There’s just something so exquisitely wonderful about the desire to craft lace out of inherently solid materials...don't you think?

Grande Mosquée de Paris

Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott Building, Chicago

King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Doha Office Tower, Qatar - Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Nelson Garrido

The Royal Mansour Hotel, Marrakech

Relief pattern wall in the Alhambra

Are you as enchanted by these lacy works as I am?

Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

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