Diwali is often described as the festival of lights. Yet, to see it only as a visual spectacle is to miss the many other ways it reconstructs the modern Indian…
Held from 13 April to 13 October 2025 on the artificial island of Yumeshima in Osaka Bay, Expo 2025 Osaka brought together approximately 150 countries and international organisations under the…
Spaces, always an extension of architecture — a space where form and emotion merge, Shyam Benegal’s Zubeidaa (2001), adapted from Khalid Mohammed’s screenplay, is not just a woman’s tale suspended…
Inception of the Design Cobe, a studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, recently unveiled a new design curated for a museum commemorating the life and work of the legendary Danish furniture…
In the heart of Lower Manhattan, a bold architectural signal rises from the site of the former towers: the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. Conceived as much more than a…
The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its groundbreaking conception of “The Sail”, an immense congress complex and high-end hotel that will occupy a very convenient location along the Seine…
The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Prize for landscape architecture, judged by a seven-member jury of landscape architects and urbanists, selected the Mexican firm Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano…
Imphal: Where Architecture Learns to Listen The first thing that strikes you about Imphal is not its skyline or its monuments. It is stillness. A kind of silence that seeps…
Saltburn: Architecture of Excess What happens when beauty becomes unbearable? Saltburn (2023), directed by Emerald Fennell, is not just a story set inside a mansion; it is a story built…
Devdas, with over 13 remakes in Indian cinema, is one of the most adapted literary works crossing across multiple languages and cultures. Written as a semi-autobiographical book by Sarat Chandra…
Few cities have the charm that enchants, and fewer that deeply stay etched in the very recesses of our memory. Nestled in the ancient civilization of Egypt, and lying along…
“There’s always three incarnations of a story: the story that is being told, the listener’s interpretation, and the version the listener retells in the future.” — Tarsem Singh, interview with…