A good Public space design aims to create an architecture that is not just responsive to the context but also transformative. ‘Transformative over time, function, and user.’ Transformative architecture is…
“Space is a social morphology: it is to experience what form itself is to the living organism, and just as intimately bound up with function and structure” – Henri Lefebvre.…
India is a vast country offering a tremendous variety in urban life, with different cities and towns having their unique public places that have developed over the last many years.…
Lost Spaces In A City Our cities are trapped in a positive self-reinforcing cycle of growth; essentially, cities grow due to the increase in opportunities, which in turn increases their…
Dubai has always been known to push the boundaries when it comes to infrastructure development. With structures like Burj Khalifa, Burj al Arab, The Palm Atlantis, or the Dubai mall;…
Urban Design sites are mainly public spaces, designed to please the users aesthetically and functionally. Dubai is a metro city that is moving at a fast pace and the city…
“Let this be a new town, symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation’s faith in the future” -Jawaharlal Nehru about Chandigarh. The…
The city of Agra-a heritage gem of India situated at the banks of the Yamuna River a destination of the golden triangle circuit of India(Along with Delhi and Jaipur).Often known…
Narrow alleyways, crumbling building facades, fading wall paint, and downtrodden heritage of Chennai’s Georgetown narrate interesting stories that unravel parts of the forgotten history, culture, and architecture of Chennai. Georgetown…
Chernobyl is a city in northern Ukraine that went through an apocalyptic event in 1986. It shook the entire world with the explosion of the Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl…
The lack of decision making of politics and governance in a time when major societal changes occur at an increasingly faster pace and the dissatisfaction with the decision process makes…
With the development from a village to a town; a town to a completely urbanized city there is a succession of the notion that is seen to be manipulating the…