A stairway leads to the roof from a carved wooden door of the restored Shaikh Salman house in Muharraq, Bahrain. The door is typical of traditional Arabian Gulf architecture.

A shadow falls across an elaborately carved wooden door of the restored Shaikh Salman house in Muharraq, Bahrain. The door is typical of traditional Arabian Gulf architecture.

Detail of the elaborately carved plaster lattices in the walls of the restored Shaikh Salman house in Muharraq, Bahrain which allow the circulation of air to cool the rooms inside. Other alcoves remain where old lattices have not survived.