Abdullah Onar - Architect

Abdullah Onar - Architect 1929-2019
Member of Chamber of Architects (1956) & Rotarian - Cyprus

What a wonderful world it was! 🤩🥰🤩
25/04/2026

What a wonderful world it was! 🤩🥰🤩

21 Şubat 2019 dan bugüne eksilmeden hep özlemle🤍🤍🤍
20/02/2026

21 Şubat 2019 dan bugüne eksilmeden hep özlemle🤍🤍🤍

🤍🤍🤍 iyi ki 19 Şubat 1929 🤍🤍🤍
19/02/2026

🤍🤍🤍 iyi ki 19 Şubat 1929 🤍🤍🤍

11/02/2026

Venice appears to defy gravity, rising impossibly from water. But the real miracle isn't above the surface—it's hidden beneath.

The entire city rests on millions of wooden piles driven deep into the lagoon's soft mud over a thousand years ago. This sounds like architectural suicide—wood underwater should rot within decades. Yet Venice still stands.

The secret? Permanent submersion.

When wood remains completely submerged, oxygen can't reach it. Without oxygen, the microorganisms that cause decay cannot survive. The logs entered a state of suspended preservation, locked beneath the waterline.

But something even more remarkable happened over centuries: the wood didn't just survive—it transformed. Minerals from the lagoon water slowly infiltrated the timber's cellular structure. The organic material gradually petrified, hardening into something closer to stone than wood.

This accidental mineralization created a foundation of extraordinary durability. What began as simple tree trunks became a geological hybrid—part organic, part mineral—stronger than the builders could have imagined.

Medieval engineers understood material science intuitively, without laboratories or chemical analysis. They observed, experimented, adapted. They recognized that limitations could become advantages if manipulated correctly.

Venice represents ancient ingenuity at its finest: transforming abundant local materials and natural processes into solutions that outlasted empires.

Modern concrete structures crumble within a century. This wooden forest has supported an entire city for over a millennium.

Sometimes the most advanced engineering doesn't require advanced technology. Just deep understanding of nature's principles.

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1950’ler Kıbrıs olsa gerek… ama ne insanlar ne de mahalle tanıdık gibi… çok başka bir zaman ve mekan … babamı tanıyorum...
22/10/2025

1950’ler Kıbrıs olsa gerek… ama ne insanlar ne de mahalle tanıdık gibi… çok başka bir zaman ve mekan … babamı tanıyorum… önde kameraya doğru geliyor… cool bir yürüyüş 😍

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