He stood for a moment, framed in an arched trellis groaning with peach-colored roses, and took in a broad view of the horseshoe drive, which was paved with little interlocking geometric tiles.

Lu's most widely-publicized work involves his discovery of the girih tiles, a set of fundamental geometric tiles used to create a wide range of patterns in medieval Islamic architecture.

Details include geometric tile "scatter rugs" on the floor and tiled columns with luminescent German glass capitals.

Scaffolds hung down, laden with geometric tiles cut from fired river clay and glazed with gem-based tints imported from Hagal.

We met him in his studio, and he ushered us into a tranquil, whitewashed courtyard paved with geometric tiles.

A 1560s Koranic school magnificently decorated with carved stucco, marble and cedar and set around colourful patios of geometric tiles.

The perfectly named Gateway of Magnificence is the real highlight here, spiced up with some jazzy geometric tile work.

It might seem quaint to think that tangrams, simple Chinese puzzles involving rearranging small geometric tiles, could ever have filled that role in society.

The main entrance is through the lowest stage of the tower, which leads into a lobby whose floor is laid in a "classic Gothic Revival form" with encaustic and geometric tiles.

The aisles were laid with geometric coloured tiles adjoining the sandstone columns of the nave.