Cities are increasingly regarded as living, breathing organisms that are influenced by local laws and situations while demonstrating global order at various scales and times. Cities are no longer simply…
A symbol is a concept that represents, stands for, or conveys another idea, visual image, belief, action, or material entity. They take the form of words, sounds, gestures, ideas, or…
Symbolic architecture has been used since antiquity to transmit certain sacred information in an associative way. Human beings like devoting meaning to all kinds of things, be it colours, flowers,…
Qatar National Library (QNL) building was designed and built by architect Rem Koolhaas and his subsidiary Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). The library is located in Doha, Qatar. It is…
Hafeez Contractor is one of the most recognizable names in Indian architecture and is well known for upgrading the Mumbai skyline along with its urban landscape. So, when it came…
The church of Archangel Michael was an orthodox church, situated in Warsaw, Poland. Recognized as symbols of Russian Power during the second Polish Republic, it was one of the military…
The war brought fathomable changes to Japan in the year 1945, the aftermath of the bombing had left the city flattened with destruction to property and to the life of…
A Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano is known for utilizing modern solutions in his designs, but he never limited himself in expanding his views that are seen in the…
When the Neo-classical masterpiece by John Russel Pope, The National Gallery of Arts in Washington D.C, needed a comrade expansion, one of the most celebrated architects of the twentieth century…
Through architecture, we seek to understand, and contest, what it means to be human. These man-made structures are an embodiment of every epoch’s socio-cultural values and beliefs. And yet, there…
As we all know very well, mizers usually go in pairs – those who are inclined not to trust such statements, this is readily confirmed by any preferenceist, and if…
Hidden deep within the lush vegetation in the serene village of Karuvannur, in the northern areas of Kozhikode, is the Kunnamangalam Bhagawati Temple. The temple’s rich history has been etched…
