The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its groundbreaking conception of “The Sail”, an immense congress complex and high-end hotel that will occupy a very convenient location along the Seine…
The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Prize for landscape architecture, judged by a seven-member jury of landscape architects and urbanists, selected the Mexican firm Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano…
Imphal: Where Architecture Learns to Listen The first thing that strikes you about Imphal is not its skyline or its monuments. It is stillness. A kind of silence that seeps…
Saltburn: Architecture of Excess What happens when beauty becomes unbearable? Saltburn (2023), directed by Emerald Fennell, is not just a story set inside a mansion; it is a story built…
Devdas, with over 13 remakes in Indian cinema, is one of the most adapted literary works crossing across multiple languages and cultures. Written as a semi-autobiographical book by Sarat Chandra…
Few cities have the charm that enchants, and fewer that deeply stay etched in the very recesses of our memory. Nestled in the ancient civilization of Egypt, and lying along…
“There’s always three incarnations of a story: the story that is being told, the listener’s interpretation, and the version the listener retells in the future.” — Tarsem Singh, interview with…
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…
Where Land Meets Stillness Along the western coast of India, the sun glides gently into the Arabian Sea, its fading light weaving through crowns of coconut palms. In Gokarna, time…
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…
Tarsem Singh’s The Fall (2006) unfolds like an architectural dream, a tapestry of landscapes, monuments, and mythic spaces that blur the line between imagination and memory. Set in the silent…
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…