There's certainly some similarities between this:
http://www.atwitsend.org/Resources/Ext%20Ste%20Maxime%208%2002%2010.jpg
and this:
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3365 

http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/SImon/SImon.html

http://www.lostdestinations.com/mnastry3.htm

these are the same one actually, just different pics.



http://www.netserf.org/Architecture/


this seems to be a decent assortment of references...when you can get a good view in the pics that is.


http://www.mont-saint-michel.net/ AHA... here's the monastery I was thinking about... It was a pretty cool daytrip if I recall. 

The Mont Saint-Michel is pretty bad ass, I ran around it once, some cool stuff, have to go back there some day with my cam. =) 

you had better. I want hi-res pics of every goddamn doorway in that place. 

Woo! bunch of referance and inspiration here! Thanks nitin, awesome stuff!

http://scampie.spawnpoint.org/egyptref/ 

/me prepares urltoys

thanks nitin for quality stuff (it's cool when fotos are taken by the gamer/designer ;)

thx scampie for hosting 

all i have to say is thanks!!!the catacombs tour was cool.i see your site is being worked i couldn't contact the guys direct....awesome 

nitin really took some inspiring shots. Some of the images from the start of the series in particular are really interesting; a kind of style I've never studied before, or even seen many pictures of. So thanks a lot, and nice job scampie for the hosting. 

Oooh, nice shots man, thanks for sharing! Saved them all for eventual future reference. =)
Damn, I wanna go to egypt too someday... Mind describing your trip a bit maybe, so we can know what some of this stuff is and all? 

Could you put the .zip nitin gave you in that folder please? Just something I can get friends at microsoft to partially download 1600 times. 

sure, when I have some more time and can be bothered, I'll outline some of it. 

thanks man,those are some cool picks,i haven't made it there yet!!!! 

I was thinking I'd put them all in one big Rar file and put that up. 

I'd download it a a few thousand times, too. 

I was thinking I'd put them all in one big Rar file and put that up.

As long as the file is compressed, and is singular, I'm happy. 

I'll go through the pics tonight and post a brief writeup of whats what. 

yes, gimme. =) 

:) 

601 to 615

These are from Cairo, from a section called Coptic Cairo. The building in pics 601-604 is a greek orthodox church. 609-610 are from the cemetery section of the church. 615 is the entrance, it's interesting because depsite being a church, it has quite an arabic influence.

652-702

This is the biggest mosque in all of Egypt. i believe its called the Sultan Hassan mosque. The scale is very very awe inspiring, if you look on pic 659, you can see people near the bottom of the entrance to give you an idea of the scale.

723-738

these are self explanatory but 727 give a good idea of scale.

761-767

this is the Red Pyramid. not located with the other pyramids and usually not open to people. However, it was sort of open when we went there. The outside climb is 20-25 m and then you descend down a 1.5 m by 1 m pasageway for 63 m. Pics 765-767 are on the inside, once your reach the bottom.

795-798

These are from Alexandria, a city north of Cairo on the Mdeiterranean sea. as the name suggests, it was as far down as Alexander the Great got. Therefore, the architecture here is more graeco-roman. A lot of the original city is now underwater.

824-825

this is Fort Quaitbey in Alexandria.

901-934

Luxor Temple.

936 - 966

karnak Temple. this is a massive complex with an absolutely humongous hall near the entrance that is filled with 100's of pillars. This felt very Duarendin like (from LOTR). Pic 956 gives a good idea of scale. however, the complex is in pretty bad shape and apart from the hall, it really isnt as impressive as some of the more well preserved temples we saw later.

972a-972f

This is the temple of Medinat Habu on the west bank of Luxor city. Not as many tourists visit this temple, but IMHO its far more impressive and well preserved than the more famous and popular Luxor and Karnak complexes.

972g - 972h

This is the Ramasseum, which is also on the west bank of Luxor. Not that original or well preserved but it was a few shots.

972l - 972q

The famous temple of Hatsheput (Serious Sam level 1). Its a very impressive sight as you're walking up to it, being built into the rockface. However, there's not much to see once you get there as it is being restored.

The Valley of the Kings is behind the mountain that this temple is built into. Generally, you take the road that goes around the mountaing to get to the Valley, but we decided to climb the mountain (both a good and bad idea since it was very tiring but it gave some fantastic views). Pics 972o - 972q are shots of the temple as we are climbing up. 972q is when we were directly above it and since it has no roof, it makes a great top down view.

1005-1036

The awesome temple complex of Abu Simbel. The most visited Eyptian site apart from the Pyramids. Its built into a rockface and is absolutely stunning in scale and detail. It has also been moved some 100 m in and 50 m up from its original site because it was too close to the water and was deteriorating. That is why the rockface that it is built inot looks more man made than natural. 1005-1017 are shiots of the temple of ramses II and 1017-1036 are shots of the temple of nefertiti, the wife of ramses II. The complex is located about 250 km south of luxor, approximately 20 km north of the Sudanese border.

1042-1051

the temple complex of philae, situated in the middle of a lake.

1052-1053

the temple complex of Kom Ombo, situated on a river bank.

1060-1068

the temple complex of horus. If anyone has played the UT1 map, CTF-Horus, Evil atje did a great job of sticking to the real temple's layout. I could almost navigate it without looking at a guidebook, simply because I'd played ctf-horus numerous times and know the layout.

1098-1107

The temple complex of dendara. Perhaps the most well preserved temple in Egypt and beacuse of that is quite an experience. Just having a roof makes it so much more awesome. Shot 1107 is from a crypt under the temple that had an entrance that you pretty much had to limbo under to get in. I'd say it was about 0.2 m high and 1 m across. It also features some very strange and unique hieroglyphics, as seen in pics 1103 and 1105. Even an non-expert like me could tell that they were nothing like the normal hieroglyphic in the other temples.

Anyway, that covers it I think. If anyone has any specific question, ask away. 

Thanks nitin, really appreciate this stuff. =)
Just added a little .txt with all this to my reference/nitin egypt/ dir. ;) 

no problem.

Also, in case you were wondering, there's heaps more to see than just the pharoanic stuff. We spent a few days on essentially a glorified sailboat on the Nile and 4 days or so through the Western Desert which is amazing because within about 500 km, it goes from a normal desert to a black desert that looks like the area surrounding Mount Doom from LOTR to a white desert that looks a bit like the arctic. 

unreleased architectural projects of soviet russia (30s-40s)

http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index.htm 

The best one is this arche above the bridge.. Impressive drawing BTW.. Thanks ! 

Here's some cool pictures from a somethingawful thread that a guy took while he was staying at a Zen Monastery in New York.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=4c2e4d7bb2ab23d2731acdb0b2a17815&threadid=1495601 

I asked some days ago where could I find some military textures..., and I found an incredible source of Military textures at http://www.combatmission.com/ ... There are no .map files (cause it's not Quake related...), but it's full of different military stuff (boats, jeeps, tanks, planes, etc..) that can be used to create prefab...
I downloaded a 1942 Willy Jeep example, and it's really interesting, while the textures are in bmp format, and sometimes not 1:1 scaled... There is a little bit of work to do.... Anyway, it looks interesting..
So enjoy !!