Dread, Walking.

Robin, curious, what is this picture? looks like a pseudo-Ziggurat ... both ascending and falling. Mehrdad Iravanian has some similar architectural works in iran (assuming it is a building).

reza, this is the wonderful building of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (http://www.imarabe.org/), a favourite place to go for sugar-loaded thé vert a la menthe : designed after traditional arabic ramified patterns, each of these windows is an amazing photoreceptive machine, all the holes dilate to let the right amount of light in, the whole building is like a massively distributed eye ;)

Great ... according to what you said and what i see, it's also like a turkish steam bath (Hammam as in Farsi called too) with holes in walls and the ceiling. Yes, the patterns are obviously look Islamic, mostly the Islamic architecture during the Timurids. (do you know that these seemingly islamic patterns are heavily Masonic, corresponding to the same architectural works in Egypt and Isreal?)

for example this one:

http://www.trailmonkey.com/Europe/Turkey/istanbul/bath3cagologu_hamami.JPG

This is one of Mehrdad's landscaping works; will send you a larger picture later:

http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/khajo.jpg

ulp...sorry reza, I used the 'A' word again. Islamic patterns, right :)