The Old Bridge built by Ottomans to match the river's strength and beauty endowed Mostar with its symbol: The Stari Most. It was built in nine months at the height of the power of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificant, 1566, designed and executed by Sinan's disciple Hayruddin...
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Late l6th century. Hamam -Turkish public bath- does not have many similarities with Roman and Byzantine public bath. Baths located at the crowded and much used parts of towns. A bath included a centrally located anteroom (dressing hall), as a transitional warming-up space (tepidarium) and a bathing space (caldarium). 
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1902. The Gymnasium was constructed by architect Franc Blazek in Bosnia's Orientalist style, sometimes called the "Pseudo-Moorish Style." It was an architectural language conceived specifically for Bosnia, a style that could represent the ethnic diversity of an empire as a way of exhibiting its breadth and reach. 
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Mostar - Vukodol,
Old bishop's house with chapel.
It's placed in the south-east area of the town.
Built 1847.
It's destructed during bombing attack in april/june 1992.
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Late l8th/early l9th centuries; this site was most likely developed and reworked over a protracted period of time beginning in the l7th century. The Biščević House appears to be the former public quarter-or selamluk-of a prominent Ottoman house, formerly connected to the family quarters-or haremluk-of the Lakišić House. 
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The University Library building, originally constructed as a private home, underscores Mostar's official identification with the neoclassical style in the Austro-Hungarian period. However, in turning to prototypes in villa architecture the building's designer, Miloš Komadina, creates a more  residential, accessible building type.
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1906. The building was designed for the Croatian Cultural Society of Napredak. It is a multifunctional building composed of a basement and three floors. The masonry block has a cylindrical tower at one corner, roofed with a dome concluding with a lantern. Triangular pediments on both sides of the tower stress the corner. The roof is covered with French tiles.
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As Mostar's importance as a crossroads and commercial centre grew after the sixteenth century, a walled enclave was built to protect the houses and shops of the bazaar area. The walls were built on both sides of the Neretva River, and were made of random stones embedded in lime mortar.
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Buka watermill was one of these watermills along Radobolja River. It is built at the end of 19th century and destroyed at the end of 20th century. It was located in the north side of the Radobolja River near Orucevica Bridge. It was a one storey building and was stone masonry. 
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The Konak Housing Complex. 1900. This imposing masonry building combines apartments with large ordered windows and a massive commercial ground floor. The commercial space pushes up against the street wall of Maršal Tito Street in Mostar, while the residential floors are set back, protecting the spaces within from the noise and animation of the street, and affording them air and light. The articulation of the building fits squarely within Mostar's Neo-classical tradition, and places it with the large number of buildings constructed with the influx of capital and investment that accompanied Austro-Hungarian authority.
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Built before 1620. The Sevri Hadji Hasan Mosque stands at the center of the Donja Mahala on the west bank of the Neretva. It is the heart and binding force of one of the intimate and beautiful neighborhoods established in the Ottoman period. A hipped roof mosque constructed of finely cut stone with a slate roof, situated on a bluff. 
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 After 17th century. To come upon the ruins of the Alajbegović House on Maršal Tito Street is still a pleasurable surprise. It is an elegant, traditional two-level timber and masonry building, which brings this modern street a sense of its own history. Commercial on one flank and residential on the other, it is a courtyard dwelling whose secluded residential character is all but hidden from the important street it faces.
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