Why buildings make us get lost The human brain builds a “cognitive map” as you move through a space, analysing how spaces connect, identifying distinct landmarks, and recognising the hierarchy…
In Ordino, at midnight, against the dark backdrop of the mountains, Jean Nouvel’s slate-clad sculptural houses at La Querola caught fire and burned in a violent blaze that destroyed almost…
For decades, a sustainable building was measured by what it avoided: fewer emissions of deadly gases, less water use and lower energy bills. As the climate crisis deepens, that standard…
A building with a unique shape sits between a neatly landscaped foreground and a sunny blue sky, the drama of size and shape finely captured across the glossy pages of…
Buildings rarely have only one life. But when an architect gives an existing building a new function, what happens to the lives that came before it? Old factories become galleries,…
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…
I pass this building every morning on my commute from Lalbaug to Lower Parel. It’s wedged between the bigger structures, narrow and exhausted-looking. The original brick is exposed in patches…
The role of architecture in films and television shows often goes unnoticed. The architecture dictates the narrative of many movies and series. One can easily guess the character’s mood or…
As architecture gradually descended into obsession with harmonised forms, unyielding permanence, rigid orders, Vitruvian symmetries, and the glass-curtained grids of modernism, an emerging mind from America’s suburbs rejected that discipline…
Tree of closeness: it’s the flat, corrugated iron roof welded onto the house to stop the water from leaking through in that one spot they knew about for years and…
Imagine a city without gaps, every void is filled and buildings are almost touching each other. Doors, balconies, and windows open into nowhere. However, nothing appears to be missing, the…