Color — Al-Shaheed Monument “Martyr Monument “

In the eighties of past century this color was widely used in wide variety of applications such as interior and exterior of buildings, and printed materials. Here we can see that it was used in the ceramic tile cladding of Al-Shaheed monument ( Martyr’s Monument ) In Baghdad, the outer shells are constructed of a galvanized steel frame with glazed turquoise ceramic tile cladding which was pre-cast in carbon fiber reinforced concrete. the tiles are five different shades of tiles, which are used in the five holy shrines in Iraq.

The monument is located on the East side of the Tigris river, near the Army Canal which separates Sadr City from the rest of Baghdad. A museum, library, cafeteria, lecture hall and exhibition gallery are located in two levels underneath the domes.

Here you can distinguish the different shades of turquoise used in the monument.

also known as the Martyr’s Memorial, is a monument in the Iraqi capital Baghdad dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq war. The Monument was opened in 1983, and was designed by the Iraqi architect Saman Kamal and the Iraqi sculptor and artist Ismail Fattah al-Turk. During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s government spent a lot of money on new monuments, which included the al-Shaheed Monument.

A monument designed by Iraqi architect Saman Asaad Kamal and the dome designed by the Iraqi sculptor Ismail Fattah al-Turk in 1983 and is located in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on the Rusafa side of Baghdad.

This monument was built in memory of the Iraqi soldiers who were killed in the Iran-Iraq war. However, Iraqis today generally consider it a commemoration of all the martyrs of Iraq.

The aesthetics of this monument is represented in the optical deception of these two domes, where the person coming from the beginning of the street sees that the two domes appear as one closed dome, and as we get closer, they begin to gradually split into two halves, signaling the emergence of something, and this thing is the Iraqi flag that rises to the top. The two domes are located on a circular platform with a diameter of 190 meters, and below it there is a museum. The height of the two domes is 40 meters

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shaheed_Monument

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