Picture a Saturday evening in East London, sometime in the 1960s. The factories along the river have gone quiet. But beside them, under a great skeleton of steel, the lights…
On maps, watercolours and old sketches that show how Mumbai’s CSMT rearranged the city around it. A Station Is Never Just a Station Stand outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus on…
I pass this building every morning on my commute from Lalbaug to Lower Parel. It’s wedged between the bigger structures, narrow and exhausted-looking. The original brick is exposed in patches…
Why mountains demand a different kind of thinking, and what we lose when we ignore it The Ground That Doesn’t Stay Still I stood on a construction site in Himachal…
What Architects Can Learn from a Film About a World After Humanity A Moment Before the Ruins Imagine this: you are standing in a vast chamber. The ceiling is so…
The Pencil Still Has Its Place Last month, whilst conducting fieldwork at a major architectural practice in Mumbai, I observed something telling. In a corner office overlooking the buildings, a…
A Palace of Power, Waterfront Majesty, and Cinematic Immortality in Maharashtra The Krishna River Whispers History If you stand on the banks of the Krishna River near Wai in Maharashtra’s…
A Moment in Siena Stand in the Piazza del Campo on a late afternoon in autumn, and you will notice something peculiar. The space itself- not the buildings framing it,…