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unusual facts about Moorish architecture



Ely Jacques Kahn

As for ornamentation, Kahn, who earlier had been inspired by the abstract geometric forms of Moorish and Persian architecture, was, from the mid-twenties onward, highly innovative in adapting the new Art Deco style with polychrome cubist or zigzag motifs reflecting the Jazz Age.

Royal Hawaiian Hotel

The six-story structure had 400 rooms and designed in the Spanish and Moorish styles popular during the 1920s.


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Benjamin Bucknall

In Algiers Bucknall changed completely to neo-Moorish architecture, in which he built villas, notably in the El Biar district of Algiers.