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Inside the art-filled, modernist "Razor Home" overlooking the Pacific Ocean. ☀️🌊

This architectural masterpiece was designed by , one of Architectural Digest's Top 100 Designers. Constructed from white, polished concrete and floor-to-ceiling glass, this magnum opus suspends the boundaries of ordinary living and commands amazing uninterrupted views of the ocean, open sky and natural landscape.

The superstar couple worked with AD100 designer, , to craft their “Dreamland.”

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📍Agra. India

If I have to choose one building in the world with the most impressive architecture and details, it would undoubtedly be Taj Mahal. 🕌

The Taj Mahal is a dream, with meticulous symmetry across its long and wide diameters. The sole exception to this otherwise uniform aesthetic scheme lies in the gravesite. Mumtaz Mahal’s casket is located in the exact centre of the palace crypt, but it is Shah Jahan’s grave—introduced to the mausoleum following his death in 1666—that rocks its artistic equilibrium with a west-of-centre resting place.

Architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, led a team of 20,000 artisans in the development of the Taj Mahal. 💪🏼About a thousand 🐘🐘 also handled the transport of heavy building materials during the 20+ yr. construction project. 🏗

The placement of the Taj Mahal’s four minarets, the 130 ft. spires at the edge of the platform, was not an aesthetic choice but a strategic one. In order to protect the crypt of Mumtaz Mahal, Lahauri tilted the towers slightly so that they would fall away from the rest of the Taj Mahal, preventing the grave from incurring any damages.

Countless beautifully printed lines of Muslim scripture line the walls of the Taj Mahal by calligrapher, Amanat Khan Shirazi.