Not a palace in the European sense, Topkapi is a compound of gardens, workshops, government offices, courtyards and residences distributed among four courts.
Visits to both places yielded no sign of them, though the address provided by Hafiz Darya was home to the "Irisl Club" — a closed-off compound of gardens, reception halls and restaurants for Irisl company use.
The Sa'dabad compound of gardens and palaces, hidden among the peaceful woods and below the snow-capped mountains that overlook the Iranian capital, was built in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Silk Commissioner's residence showcases a vast compound of garden pavilions and ornamental rockeries, past which the scroll ends in a stylized bank of clouds.
Entering a nondescript gate we emerged into a six-acre compound of languorous gardens and ponds surrounding ancient temples and pagodas — an urban Angkor Wat whose exotic Technicolor setting could have been painted by Gauguin.
The house is a sprawling one-story pleasure dome, completely unlike any in which they were raised, set in a compound of manicured gardens whose sprinklers still spin two months after its former owner, Muatassim el-Qaddafi, died shortly after his capture by rebels.
El Rey Inn, 1862 Cerrillos Road, (800) 521-1349, fax (505) 989-9249, www.elreyinnsantafe.com, a white stucco Moorish compound, is set in five acres of gardens and courtyards.
Either a purchased commercial concentrate or a home-made compounded supplement consisting of garden and table refuse may be used.
A bird's-eye view of a luxurious compound of open-air rooms and gardens divided by diagonally gridded architecture fills the upper two-thirds.
It was only nine o'clock when the boat arrived at a neat compound of concrete-block buildings and gardens, where reserve officials and staff, some with their families, lived, surrounded by high, stout wire fencing.
The 173-acre compound includes gardens, courtyards, kitchens, armories, baths, fountains and a large collection of jewels, swords, carpets, paintings and art.
