For centuries, the fundamentals of architecture have been stability; buildings are expected to stand upright, offer clear visuals and communicate a sense of logical order through balance, symmetry and predictable…
In today’s period of rapid urbanisation, city landscapes are constantly changing to meet people’s growing needs. When a building no longer serves its original purpose, demolition is often the default…
People have seen many palaces, museum, heritage from the perspective of a perceived. Have people ever thought how does it feel as an user of the heritage? How does it…
Bandra, alias Queen of Suburbs, is easily the heartthrob of Mumbaikars, and for good reason: it sits along the coastline and seamlessly blends modern lifestyle and popular culture. But beyond…
The Building with Two Birth Dates The most revealing feature of the Bofill Foundation HQ, Barcelona, Spain, is not its exposed brick or restored timber, but the uncertainty held within…
The walk can be heard well before it comes into view. It is a little after nine in the morning, and the street that takes you to the Banke Bihari…
Architecture is closely connected to the place where it is built. A building in a hot desert cannot respond to its surroundings in the same way as a house in…
The Tomb of Salabat Khan II is a historic monument in the city of Ahilyanagar in Maharashtra. It is a simple and interesting building to understand architecturally. Historic buildings help…
Some places in a city stay with us without us quite knowing why. Not because the place was beautiful or that it held high value; quite the opposite, actually -…
Across the mighty Ganga in Bihar, near Mokama in Patna district, two bridges stand parallel: the nearly seven-decade-old rail-cum-road Rajendra Setu, and the new six-lane Aunta-Simaria Ganga Bridge. As age…
It is midnight in a city that won’t cool off; the trapped heat sends out waves that reflect how the architecture is working against the climate and environment. It’s not…
Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…