What should happen to industrial buildings when the industries that were present no longer exist? Cities evolve when urbanisation and industrialisation happen. While many industrial sites that are no longer…
Immersing oneself in art seen in a museum is a lost art. In today’s day and age, when digital media and technology have taken over, one art collective has utilised…
Makoko exists at the edge of convention. Located by the Lagos lagoon, in Nigeria, Makoko is an informal human settlement and is home to over 300,000 fishermen who struggle to…
Cities rarely remember themselves all at once. More than historical accounts, they quietly do so through their living fragments. A familiar street, a festival, an evening prayer, or a building…
Located near Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the House for Five Women presents itself as a modern-day approach to housing by TEN that is collaborative, sensitive towards its users’ needs, and…
Seif Palace sits on the Kuwait City waterfront as the working heart of the country’s government, home to the offices of the Emir, the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister.…
The Invisible Classroom On any ordinary evening in an Indian neighbourhood, learning unfolds in places we rarely recognise as classrooms. A child stands at the edge of a cricket pitch,…
The Same City, Two Different Experiences Now imagine a woman who leaves her workplace at half past eight in the evening. First, before going out of her office building, she…
Status update… feed….stories…..the metrics…. Notifications…. filters…..group chats This makes a new definition of a social network. While we now look for the digital feeds to ‘stay connected ‘, the pols…
“How India’s Military Architecture Shaped Urban Planning” Behind the tree-lined avenues and orderly streets of many Indian cities lies an unexpected story, one that began with military camps. Long before…
Nestled in the inner roads of Manipal, Karnataka, an open-air living museum lies in wait. Established in 1997 and still an active centre of heritage restoration, Hasta Shilpa offers a…
The Starchitect The birth of the ‘starchitect’ both within and beyond the built environment is often attributed to the modern architectural movement. With the rise of both digital and print…