The Architect · Yusuf · Istanbul
Hagia Sophia
This is the building. A 1,500-year-old dome that still teaches every architect how to make stone float.
Justinian's 6th-century dome — the engineering leap that made the room feel weightless, later a mosque, now again a working one.
— Yusuf, The Architect
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