Mosques, as symbol of Islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of Allah the Almighty. There are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. Aesthetic value in Islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. Contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

Most colour studies focus on single effects; however, interiors are multi-coloured environments and contemporary users looking for more innovative schemes in interiors. Interior architects rely their own subjective experience instincts when they take up the challenge. This study aims to reveal semantics of paired colours walls different residential interior types (eg, living room) as a second p...

Very little has been published on the perceptions of architects who choose to practice interior design. That is, architects simply assume that they should engage in interior-design work. When asked why an architect practices interior design, a common reply is that architecture includes interior as well as exterior design or that being an architect implies one has the training and ability to des...

The Stone spectrum of a von Neumann algebra is a generalization of the Gelfand spectrum, as was shown by de Groote. In this article we clarify the structure of the Stone spectra of von Neumann algebras of type In.