title: Sunken courtyard
text: # Sunken courtyard
  
  In architecture and landscape architecture, a sunken courtyard, sometimes called a sunken plaza, is a courtyard below ground level.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Sunken courtyard of Paramount Plaza, New York City
  * Sunken courtyard in a cave dwelling in Shaanxi, China
  * Sunken courtyard in Agha Bozorg mosque, Kashan, Iran
  