Architectural evolution is a two-fold phenomenon, where on one hand, settlements are expanding, and on the other hand, construction techniques are advancing. The Age of Steel paved the way for…
Architecture has the power to influence emotions, create safe spaces, and ultimately shape human connections. Therefore, when practised wisely with strategic focus on uniting communities, the built environment can reshape…
Origami comes to life in the Parisian streets at the Hexagone Balard, the Ministry of Defence’s headquarters. Here, architectural ambitions manifest in folded metal and shimmering glass. The building’s striking…
Architecture significantly consumes resources and pollutes the environment, leading to the degradation of Earth’s ecosystems. Combined with other environmental stressors, this jeopardizes the future habitability of our planet. Therefore, it…
Yasmeen Lari, one of the most renowned architects of Pakistan and a RIBA award winner, is known for her community-driven and participatory architecture. Her work is especially associated with resilient…
Net-Zero Building Net-zero, also known as carbon neutrality, is the act of cancelling out greenhouse gases produced by human activity, by reducing existing emissions and implementing methods of absorbing carbon…
Cities have long been understood as consumers, like vast engines that inhale natural resources, transform them into buildings, infrastructure, and commodities, and eventually exhale waste. But this extractive model is…
At a time when the gap between built space and the user needs is ever-increasing, with cities becoming more complex, one forgets how inhabitants are no longer passive users. Participatory…
“The city of Mumbai does not wake up in a hurry; it makes itself up.” As April reaches Mumbai, something magical takes place in reverse. With temperatures that cap above…
Architecture has always been one of the most powerful storytellers of human movement, of trade, migration, conquest, curiosity, and cultural exchange. While much of architectural history is narrated through the…
When Christopher Alexander, along with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, published A Pattern Language in 1977, they proposed something that architecture had long forgotten: that the built environment must grow…
Stood in striking isolation amidst the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Fort Jefferson is one of the most ambitious architectural feats of 19th-century America. Located within the Dry…