Placemaking Starts With People In architecture today, Placemaking has moved from being a conference buzzword to a design philosophy that genuinely matters. It is the point where buildings step aside…
Cities are often designed to keep people moving. Streets stay busy all day, pavements rush people forward, and many public spaces feel like places meant only to walk through. Yet…
Architecture is the Real Problem! Rising sea levels, increasing global temperature, loss of biodiversity, more frequent and extreme weather events, reduced air quality, natural resource depletion, and so many more.…
Hollywood’s favourite murder-mystery series, ‘Only Murders in the Building’, boasts an all-star cast, from main leads Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steve Martin), to guest A-listers such…
Cinema often explores emotion through characters and storytelling, yet it has always relied on architecture and space to shape how those stories are felt. The built environment becomes part of…
Jiayuguan Fort is not simply the western gateway of the Great Wall of China, it is the place where civilization pauses, inhales, and looks out at the infinite. Rising from…
Cities today are not merely built environments; they are confluences of movement, memory, aspiration and contradiction. Walk through any contemporary metropolis and the signs are unmistakable. Migrant kitchens reinvent neighbourhood…
Historical Background Co Loa Citadel, situated in the Dong Anh District of Hanoi, is one of the oldest relic sites in Vietnam, dating back to the 3rd century BC. It…
Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation is more than a monograph; it is a vivid exploration of how architecture evolves in response to climate, culture, and human necessity.…
There is a street in Dadar that I return to almost instinctively, as if something in it remembers me. It’s nothing spectacular: a few spice shops, cloth banners hanging loosely,…
How Cities Finally Started Building for Everyone For more than a decade, the housing story across the world has been a grim loop: skyrocketing rents, stalled construction, slow approvals, and…
For over a century, cement has led the construction industry as the foundation of modern development. However, as environmental issues grow and architects look for more sustainable options, a new…