Mani Ratnam’s OK Kanmani is usually remembered for its breezy romance, the easy chemistry of Adi and Tara, and Rahman’s music that somehow fits every mood. But when you look…
Awe is not just a movie; it feels like a maze of emotions living inside one building. Each and Every room holds a different life, a different mood, a different…
Hollywood’s favourite murder-mystery series, ‘Only Murders in the Building’, boasts an all-star cast, from main leads Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steve Martin), to guest A-listers such…
Cinema often explores emotion through characters and storytelling, yet it has always relied on architecture and space to shape how those stories are felt. The built environment becomes part of…
Cities today are not merely built environments; they are confluences of movement, memory, aspiration and contradiction. Walk through any contemporary metropolis and the signs are unmistakable. Migrant kitchens reinvent neighbourhood…
Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation is more than a monograph; it is a vivid exploration of how architecture evolves in response to climate, culture, and human necessity.…
In the canon of twentieth-century urban design literature, few texts have exercised as pervasive and enduring an influence as Gordon Cullen’s The Concise Townscape. Originally published in 1961 under the title Townscape and…
Undoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory talks about the most crucial challenges faced in the society of the 21st century: How can we make use of the large stock…
Reimagining Architectural Intervention Fred Scott’s pioneering work “On Altering Architecture” stands as a seminal contribution to the course of architectural theory that offers readers a comprehensive exploration of building modification…
When the elevator doors open and you step into the world of Silo, you are not visiting another dystopian set; you are entering a skyscraper. Instead of a building serving…
Some movies tell stories, while others create entire universes from scratch, resembling surreal oil paintings stitched together with a sense of madness. Tony McNamara’s “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos,…
Cities are not just recalled for landmarks, skylines, or famous landmarks, but for the imageability of any city, which plays an important role. Streets are where people move, congregate, and…