A beautiful new tower of a hotel in the resort town of Las Catalinas, Costa Rica, by the architect Michael Imber. It has echoes of Spanish Colonial architecture but also reflects architecture found throughout the world.
You see similar projecting timber balconies in Cartagena, Colombia, for example.
These, however, are at Baltit Fort in Pakistan. Probably 15th century.
This example is at the Church of San Juan Bautista in Tenerife
Projecting timber balconies were once a mainstay of traditional architecture, in the new world and the old. Here are some Ottoman examples in Egypt and Crete
There's no shortage of examples in the Middle East, such as these in Aleppo and Jeddah.
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