Palace of the Roses
Location
Baghdad
Country
Iraq
Construction
1933
Project Status
Built
Building Type
Public building
Notes
The royal residence reflected an "eclectic European style" (Caecilia Pieri). It used architectural elements famous in English castles and villas in the suburbs and countrysides of England, such as circular towers, Greek columns, windows in the Romantic style, as well as bricks to cover the towers.
After the 1958 Revolution in Iraq, the residence was renamed Qasr al-Nihaya (the Palace of the End).
Sources
Caecilia Pieri
Shirin Ihsan Shirzad, Lamahat min Tarikh al-Imara (wal harakat al-mimaria wa ruwadaha), Dar al-Shuun al-Thaqafia al-Amma, Baghdad, 1987, pp. 135, 139
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