The Organic Skeleton: The Manifesto of Biomimicry Santiago Calatrava’s work emerges from a rigorous interpretation of dynamic forms, where the living world and the kinetics of inanimate objects serve as…
Every festive season in Pune, queues spill out of sweet shops: people balancing boxes of sweets and savouries, negotiating tiny counters, calling out orders over the din of frying ghee…
In Indian cinema, very few films evoke the quiet charm and the rhythm of Mumbai’s middle class as gently as the 1976 Basu Chatterjee-directed Chhoti Si Baat. The film is…
Trail to the History of the City Steeped in heritage and culture, Nagpur, or as it is affectionately dubbed, the ‘City of oranges,’ offers to the visitors and locals, enthralling…
The age of cities has traditionally been described as the age of conquest of nature — sweeping rivers out of the way, concrete poured atop floodplains, and infrastructure constructed as…
Rome’s Stazione Termini has not just been a transportation hub, it serves as a symbolic linkage between ancient Rome and its modern metropolitan era. It was initially opened in 1950…
Walk through almost any global city today, from Dubai to Delhi, from Nairobi to New York, and you’ll notice a strange déjà vu. The glass gleams the same way, the…
Gensler, the name that sketches the sky and redraws the city street, doesn’t just design buildings; it choreographs the human drama within them. In 2025, Gensler continues to stand as…
Human beings aren’t the only ones who breathe; spaces tend to breathe too. In the clustered Newari settlement, courtyards are the lungs that make the entire space breathe. It reflects…
Bombay (then) has always been an idea, a figure of myth and desire, more than it has ever been a physical construct. Home to Bollywood (Indian Hindi cinema based in…
A City That Forgot to Breathe Every city hums at a different rhythm. Some pulse with urgency, the sharp hiss of brakes, the glow of screens, the blur of bodies…
Imagine feeling unwelcome in any space. Imagine having to constantly stay alert in one’s everyday negotiations for one’s safety. Imagine the chaos that erupts when one does something a little…