Created by Japanese designers S.Umekawa and PBS exclusively for Canon website, this is the paper model version of the Humayun's Tomb, also known as the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's wife Hamida Banu Begum in 1562 AD, and designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyath, a Persian architect. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent, and is located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India, close to the Dina-panah citadel also known as Purana Qila (Old Fort), that Humayun founded in 1533.
It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale. The tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993, and since then has undergone extensive restoration work, which is still underway.
Besides the main tomb enclosure of Humayun, several smaller monuments dot the pathway leading up to it, from the main entrance in the West, including one that even pre-dates the main tomb itself, by twenty years; it is the tomb complex of Isa Khan Niyazi, an Afghan noble in Sher Shah Suri's court of the Suri dynasty, who fought against the Mughals, constructed in 1547 CE. - Wikipedia
Criado pelos designers japoneses S.Umekawa e PBS exclusivamente para o site da Canon, esta é a versão em papel do Túmulo de Humayun, também conhecido como como Tumba do Imperador Mughal Humayun, o mais antigo mausoléu mogol de Deli e uma das mais extraordinárias construções históricas da cidade.
Foi a primeira das grandes construções do período mogol. O mausoléu foi mandado construir pela viúva de Humayun no século XVI em honra do seu marido. É declarado pela Unesco como parte do património mundial desde 19993.
A sua importância arquitetónica-paisagística é vista sobretudo no fato de ter fundamentado a concepção que une mausoléus a jardins. Assim, teria isnpirado o modelo para o Taj Mahal, em Agra. - Wikipedia
