Review of The Shining – The impact of architecture on popular culture can hardly be overstated. Every artform that directly interacts with the visual, spatial and sonic awareness of a…
“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…
An architect’s journey is treacherous, and it takes one to know one. However, it also is exceptionally romantic. The subtle behavioural cues of the human intellect and psyches they form…
“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 is a city with a diversified urban pattern. Distinct architectural marvels adorn this city like jewels, with their respective impacts on the urban population and their microcosm. From neo-gothic…
Osaka Castle, Japan – There is a lot to say about the people and culture of an archipelago of 6852 islands, some 3000 km off the coast of mainland China,…
“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. ……