The rectangular pavilion on the top rests on a platform and is open from all sides with twelve arched entrances. Legend is that the twin courtesans would sing from this pavilion which the sultan could hear at the Bala Hisar Baradari. - Golconda Fort Complex & Surroundings, Hyderabad, India - ImageWrighter
The Baradari has two significant architectural elements. The first is that the sound of a clap from the Bala Hissar gate, the entrance, is heard here. Second, is the natural air conditioning created by the double walls with hollow spaces within. - Golconda Fort - Part 2, Hyderabad, India - ImageWrighter
A medieval Islamic settlement that offered every living comfort to its dwellers. Not just comfort, but the most advanced defence technology, acoustics, and waterworks that surprise engineers even now. Being an important diamond trading centre of the East, it catered to all kinds of travellers too. - Golconda Fort - Part 1, Hyderabad, India - ImageWrighter
Influenced by Persian and Turkish baths, the ghusl-khana is expansive with one large shrouding platform decorated with black basalt, and many cisterns. These cisterns supplied the baths with hot and cold water both. - The Qutb Shahi Tombs Complex Part - 2, Hyderabad, India - ImageWrighter