The pool occupies the onetime machine room, an inspired stroke of aquatic architecture that trades industry for indolence.

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Inspired by both Mughal and Moorish mosque architecture and paved with floral marble from - count them - 28 different countries, the mosque has a trifecta of superlatives.

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What probably inspired the most reverence in me was not the architecture but the sheer emptiness of Corvara.

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Art isn't fraught, and we'd rather be indirectly inspired by our collection than directly stimulated by other works of architecture in books.

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The Introductory Gallery, for example, is paved with a design of white and gold marble inspired by decorations at the Taj Mahal, a masterpiece of Islamic architecture.

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