“We wanted the hotel to look authentic rather than like a traditionally spooky movie hotel. The hotel’s labyrinthine layout and huge rooms, I believed would alone provide an eerie enough…
“We designed a compact, directionless, self-contained building with flexible use potential.” – Marlies Rohmer (Architects) In its purest form, architectural space is a volume created by any carefully placed object…
After five years in architecture school and a few more in practice, architects learn a lot about their built environment, the infrastructure market, and life. On this journey, one learns…
“With 400 architecture colleges which have an approximate intake of 60 students, we produce around 24,000 graduates per year. This is only 20% of the national requirement” -The Times of…
“There is a slow yet steady awakening among students towards architectural journalism” – The Hindu An architect’s journey is treacherous, and it takes one to know one. However, it also…
“An experimental prototype that is always in the state of becoming, a place where the latest technology can be used to improve the lives of people.” – Walt Disney, on…
“Liverpool not only tells the story of its importance as one of the World’s great ports or about its cultural influence, such as with the Beatles phenomenon. It also serves…
“A bird with one body but two beaks, pecking itself to death.” – Anonymous, c. 1500CE. There is a lot to say about the people and culture of an archipelago…
“The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” – Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City There has always been speculation about the possible…
“In the elder days of Art, builders wrought with greatest care, each minute and unseen parts, for gods are everywhere.” – Henry W. Longfellow The first evidence of any human…
“Lying deep in the Namibian desert is a place time forgot.” – Great Big Story It is 1956, across a vast expanse of the desert, only a ghostly few figurines…
“There were details like clothing, hairstyles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. ……
