Traffic is often treated as a surface-level problem. More vehicles on roads, longer waiting times at signals, and crowded junctions are usually answered with flyovers, road widening, or new lanes.…
Suburbia captures a complicated architectural and social contradiction. It is shaped as an escape from the noise and density of the city, a space meant for calm, privacy, and security.…
The world today is ruled by speed. Everyone around us is running, chasing behind big goals. The fast city life is the new normal. There is always rush, chaos, and…
Military architecture has played a crucial role in the world of architecture; it has historically reshaped structures by constantly evolving through technologies of warfare, shifting political ideologies, and changing understandings…
Are we designing riverfront projects to give precedence to rivers or to enhance social displacement? India’s riverfront projects possess large parcels of land, which have not only given rebirth to…
A firm’s brand is often synonymous with its building style in the traditional architecture market. We recognise a Doshi by its use of natural materials, or a Mies by its…
World Cities Day, observed on October 31, as recognised by the United Nations, is an opportunity to promote sustainable urban development around the world. On World Cities Day in 2024,…
While discussing education, this particular quote by Albert Einstein always comes to mind: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Education is…
Cities can be described as moulded on what can be seen. Streets, facades, people, skylines. However, there are forces that influence urban life that are not exactly visual. They come…
Chennai’s urban environment is shaped by recurring cycles of disturbance, including monsoon flooding, cyclones, extreme heat stress, water scarcity, coastal erosion, and large-scale displacement driven by infrastructure development. These overlapping…
Salone del Mobile, Milano has launched a new, multi-year strategy named Slone Contract, aimed at highlighting the growing field of contract offering for large-scale projects. This strategy is designed mainly…
The Soviet city was conceived as a spatial manifestation of ideology, but functioned in practice as an environment shaped by compromise, adaptation, and everyday use. Decades after the dissolution of…