The Refinery at Domino stands as a state-of-the-art office building on the edge of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, overlooking the East River. A walk through the bustling Domino District today makes it…
The arena of architecture has evolved through the centuries. Various forms and styles have been developed to suit contemporary design requirements. And so far, history has inherited a plethora of…
Adaptive reuse projects have become a defining strategy in contemporary European architecture, particularly focusing on transformation of post-industrial sites. As cities are dealing with climatic changes, resource scarcity, reduced land…
For centuries, the architectural brief for a public monument was simple permanence, heroism, and all about heights, something which was used as a symbolic representation or celebration of an individual…
For centuries, architecture as a profession was described as the creation of new, iconic structures on a vacant piece of land. However, during the 21st century, due to rapidly growing…
The book ‘Why Old Places Matter’ by Thompson M. Mayes is one of the few books that gives a voice to old places and tells its readers why they matter.…
With rapid urbanisation and increasing global warming, cities today face an unavoidable problem. They flood during storms and run dry between them. Contemporary construction methods and the approach to make…
Architecture has taken a turnabout from reacting to disaster resilience to actively participating in developing one. Water scarcity is an emerging climatic condition that requires drought-responsive thinking. Designing with drought…
Mother Nature, embodied by the Earth, was bestowed with beautiful dense forest-lands that reached approximately half of the land area, along with other very important landscapes such as deserts, glaciers,…
Rising along the northern coast of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Qal’at al-Bahrain is more than just a defence or military structure; it is a profound archaeological tell of an artificial…
India is witnessing a transformation in its urban face. The ever-expanding cities are striving to accommodate a growing population, rising economic aspirations, and increasing infrastructural needs. The dilemma is between…
Every kingdom and empire has seen its own share of giant walls and protective structures being built for the security of their kingdom. And the Western Chalukyas were no less…