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Heritage Architecture

A 5,000-year-old craft under threat

By Mara Budgen

The konaklar were designed to be in harmony with the rest of the neighbourhood (Credit: Xantana/Getty Images)
Heritage Architecture

Turkey's extraordinary Ottoman mansions

By Soumya Gayatri
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Heritage Architecture

India's 10,000 forgotten mansions

By Soumya Gayatri
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Heritage Architecture

Italy's ancient homes for dodging taxes

By Victoria Abbott Riccardi
The Greek Island homes hidden from pirates (Credit: Percy Ryall/Alamy)
Heritage Architecture

The clever homes hidden from pirates

By Luke Waterson
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Heritage Architecture

A perfect town deep in the desert

By Fiona Dunlop
Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings (Credit: Miroslav_1/Getty Images)
Heritage Architecture

Iceland's 1,000-year-old turf homes

By Luke Waterson
Stadels: The age-old barns that fed the Alps (Credit: Nicolas Sedlatchek)
Heritage Architecture

The genius barns that fed the Alps

By Sarah Freeman
Brochs: The mysterious circular symbols of Scotland (Credit: Loop Images/Getty Images)
Heritage Architecture

Britain's mysterious circular towers

By Chris Griffiths
(Credit: Itxaso Zuñiga Ruiz)
Heritage Architecture

The round homes that can last centuries

By Itxaso Zuñiga Ruiz
Kath kuni is recognisable by its layered interlocking of deodar wood with locally sourced stone, without the use of mortar (Image credit: Tarang Mohnot)
Heritage Architecture

India’s ancient quake-resistant homes

By Tarang Mohnot
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Heritage Architecture

The floating homes of Lake Titicaca

By Stefano Montali
Mud houses in Sanaa in Yemen
Ancient Engineering Marvels

Yemen's ancient skyscraper cities

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
Today, only 36 seaweed-roofed houses are left on the island (Credit: Thomas Kyhn Rovsing Hjørnet/Alamy)
Heritage Architecture

The 300-year-old homes of the future

By Karen Gardiner
Today, there are only 10 master tavillonneurs in Switzerland (Credit: Fribourg Region)
Heritage Architecture

A craft kept alive by 10 Swiss masters

By Molly Harris
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Heritage Architecture

Where people live between boulders

By Lidija Pisker and Carlos Pinota