Travancore House was one of several residences established in New Delhi for the rulers of princely states during British rule.Travancore House occupies Kasturba Gandhi Marg, within the wider historic area…
Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, a revered Sikh shrine, is a peaceful oasis in the bustling city of Delhi. Its iconic golden dome shines brightly, drawing visitors from all over the world.…
Featuring Big Ben, in the background of the Houses of Parliament, lies a quiet and vacant street of London. Situated there is London’s most authentic Indian restaurant, Spice 6. Owned…
An Architectural Testimony of Faith, Structure & Devotion The Lotus Temple was designed by a visionary Iranian-American architect named Fariborz Sahba. It is located in the heart of India, its…
Over the last two decades, India’s population has grown rapidly. As of 2015, approximately 33% of India’s total population resided in cities, and by 2050, more than half of India’s…
Project Fuse arrived in 2020 with a deceptively simple proposition: that a piece of furniture could carry a philosophy. Founded in New Delhi by designer Aniruddh Ghosh, this young Indian…
The Red Fort Complex in Delhi, also known as Lal Qila and Qila-e-Mubarak, is a masterpiece of Mughal Architecture, unmatched in its historical and architectural wonders. Commissioned by Emperor Shah…
The 21-story, 91-meter-high Brutalist edifice, the Palika Kendra, is an unmissable feature of New Delhi’s skyline. The building, home to the headquarters of NDMC, or New Delhi Municipal Council, was…
Cities can be described as moulded on what can be seen. Streets, facades, people, skylines. However, there are forces that influence urban life that are not exactly visual. They come…
The sheer growth of the present-day city indicates that the Sarai Shahji Mahal was standing even before there was a city in Delhi, more than 300 years ago. Located close…
Urban Theory often arrives in abstraction, diagrams of flows, arrows of capital, and density compressed in numbers. Cities are not systems; they are lived stories. Critical imagination is a practice…
Indian cities are repositories of diverse layers of history that have been manifested in the architecture of the past. Examples of this are the havelis, industrial sites, colonial structures, religious…