“At Perkins&Will, research is part of our DNA. We’re creators and curators of intelligence.” Reads the company’s website. “Our research improves lives, enhances places, and contributes to the common good,”…
Every child has daydreamed of sitting inside or on top of a white puffy cloud. As children, we imagined them to be more like fluffy hovering wads of white cotton…
Architects are now exploring the importance, necessity, and newer ways to allow sunlight into spaces; measures to control and regulate the quantity of light entering and its distribution. In the case…
A city or town that carefully preserves the ways of living developed in the past and passed on from generation to generation, through several customs, societies, practices, places, artistic expressions,…
Staggering numbers of random, predictable building typologies built wherever land was available by whoever got there first were characteristic of the early days in the Kowloon Walled City. Hundreds of…
An organically folded concrete façade and angled spaces encapsulated within, create this two-storied construction: Triose. Located in the beautiful Indian hilltop town of Lonavala, the entire frontage of the site…
Formerly known as the Thornhill Mayne Memorial, the beautiful sandstone building that houses the enormous Allahabad Public Library is situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a…
If you had to boil Indian architecture down to a single word, what would it be? Elegant? Complex? Showy? Grand? Weird? Well, it sure is all of this and more. From the…
Just below the foothills of the Dolomites, about halfway between Verona and Venice, at the edge of the fertile Po plain, lies Vicenza — a province in the Veneto region in northern…
Megastructures – The World’s Most Extreme Railway on YouTube is a story of the battle to construct a railway across one of the most unforgiving terrains on Earth. To lay…
In the last year, we have come across many dramatic changes in the job markets around the world; those who were in the process of a job search when the…
Despite India boasting rich architectural heritage and miraculous historic constructions, contemporary architecture in India has, by and large, looked westward for inspiration and direction, perhaps in search of “modernism”. In…