A good courtyard garden design can turn a drab and uninviting space ... Water is a great thing to add to a courtyard garden, inspired by riad gardens and other Islamic gardens of the past.

By its strictest definition, a riad is an enclosed garden or courtyard. However ... Although fundamentals of riad design have been highly canonised within Islamic architecture through the ages ...

For a large number, it is the courtyard houses ... south of Marrakech. Its riad-like interior, bursting with ethnic-chic, has already graced the pages of several style magazines.

“Claudio could be a bit of a pharaoh,” quips Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami, a friend of the artist and head of the Manhattan architecture, interiors, and landscape firm Sardar Design Studio.

A riad is a traditional Moroccan home in which all the rooms are built around an interior courtyard ... But the new design incorporates many traditional Moroccan elements, including Moorish ...