There is a particular kind of grief that has no name in urban planning textbooks. It is the grief of watching a neighbourhood park quietly disappear—first surrendered to a parking…
World Trade Center Biotic is a mixed-use complex, sophisticatedly designed by a Brazilian Studio Architects Office. Gathered beneath a single pavilion, multiple programs such as offices, residential units, a hotel,…
Social housing is about more than the shelter itself. It’s about the little things. A place to drink coffee and watch nature. A place to sit down and read a…
Theaster Gates grew up on the South Side of Chicago, helping his father with the family roofing business, hauling buckets of tar and learning early that almost anything broken can…
When we walk through cities and developing areas, it’s easy to spot temporary façades along the pavements, usually accompanied by the sounds of construction just beyond the advertisements for upcoming…
Who is Pattaya? To outsiders, Pattaya appears as an epicentre of pleasure. Neon lights, crowded night markets, and illuminated streets stretched along the coastline illustrate the vibrant nightlife the city…
Imagine arriving in Shenzhen for the first time. At first glance, it seems to be an extremely modernised city, with glass towers everywhere, elevated highways, endless construction and newfound technological…
My hometown, Mombasa, is a small coastal city in Kenya and one of the most popular destinations on the coast of East Africa. When it was in its early years,…
Rethinking What We Call ‘Informal’ Galleries, craft studios, cultural centres, and digitally driven innovation hubs are the most visible and celebrated forms of the creative economy in policy and media.…
Indian cities seem to be organised on paper, zoned, regulated, and systematically organised. However, the lived experience tells a different story. An individual is walking on a damaged footpath, a…
‘A passage between Realms’ “Originating from the Japanese turii, meaning gateway leading to heaven. Its Sanskrit synonym for a door is Dwara, from the word Dwi, meaning ‘two’. This refers…
Contemporary global challenges are increasingly shaped by issues of global sustainability, rapid urbanization, and industrial growth. These interconnected forces intensify major environmental problems such as climate change, energy shortages, and…