“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”, must have thought a person to change the world in…
Construction in India – Historically and traditionally, materials and labor have been emphasized as the two prime building cost components. Architects have spent their professional lifetimes judging the relative merits…
When we talk about India, 60 percent of Indians still live in villages, where the country gets its essence. Indian villages have a charming and alluring way of life. The…
All the world’s a stage. All the men and women are merely players. They have their entries and exits. Each plays a different character, but what holds drama is the…
Singapore’s Tallest Building 8 Shenton Way, a 305-meter-tall tower, with a design that was unveiled by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The mixed-use tower draws inspiration from bamboo woods to…
The book “Narrative Architecture” by Nigel Coates is the first book to directly address architectural storytelling. The development of narrative architecture results from an introspective examination of the client’s goals…
Design is arbitrary. Design is subjective, and there is just no way of getting around the fact, and architecture in many ways is the art of convincing people that one’s…
The stunning Temple of Edfu, erected in honor of the deity Horus and set on a hill overlooking the Nile, is said to be the best preserved of all the…
Everything starts and finishes in your head. You are controlled by whatever you grant power to. The narrative begins with the idea that philosophy and art profoundly impact one another…
Matilda House – For one, context is not necessarily responding to the building next door, but responding to the needs of the people and the project. It does not necessarily…
Stephen King House – In a distant land of Bangor, Maine, lives a man in the Red Victorian mansion, which teleports you to one of the most mysterious and creepiest…
Architects compress whole philosophies into a sentence: “Less is more” (Mies van der Rohe), “Form follows function” (Louis Sullivan), “Less is a bore” (Robert Venturi). This collection gathers 50 famous…