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Guess the Architecture is a place for engineers to test their knowledge of world architecture. Each week the CR4 team will post a different piece of architecture from around the world. We're looking for guesses at where it might be, or some information regarding the structure in the comments below.

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Guess the Architecture for 3/19/2019

Posted March 19, 2019 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you guess this week's building?

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03/19/2019 2:22 PM

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03/19/2019 11:49 PM

The dome looks to be an observatory.

( will i get an off topic for my answer too ? )

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03/20/2019 12:51 AM

More like a mausoleum...

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03/20/2019 9:32 AM

The dome looks to be an observatory.

That's what I thought, too, but the line across the top is not an opening, I think, but the shadow of the pole on top of the dome.

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03/20/2019 11:32 AM

I think that's a ladder for cleaning the dome when necessary....

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03/21/2019 10:34 AM

"Modern Islamic architecture"

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03/22/2019 12:21 AM

I don't see how any of the replies so far duplicate the shape of the building in the original post. (Non-tapered walls of lower square part, different proportions of low/high parapets, wrong dome shapes, three inner arches not in original drawing, flooded versus unflooded foreground, etc.)

I hope all posters can properly identify their respective buildings, which may not all be the same one.

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03/23/2019 4:55 AM

I spoke of identifying the building. Why did you not do that?

This does look like the correct building, but the OP's sketch is a bit off (different proportion of lower/higher parapets, three inner arches obscured).

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03/23/2019 2:57 PM

Feel free to right click on the pic and google search it...

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03/27/2019 11:38 AM

Or just click on your SE's original correct answer.

I believe that this is the picture Maggie copied:-

Mazar-E-Quaid

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