The Corniche Mosque, Jedda, Saudi Arabia (1986): one of a series of small mosques commissioned by the Saudi government and designed by the Egyptian architect Abd al-Wahid al-Wakil. He freely blends together forms, and even fragments of forms, to create plastic, sculpture-like structures. The results are always visually pleasing, but somewhat disturbing in their indifference toward the disparate, and sometimes clashing, traditions from which they were copied.

 

General view of the Mosque.   Detail of the plastic, sculpture-like domical roof.

 

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