Spaces, always an extension of architecture — a space where form and emotion merge, Shyam Benegal’s Zubeidaa (2001), adapted from Khalid Mohammed’s screenplay, is not just a woman’s tale suspended…
Inception of the Design Cobe, a studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark, recently unveiled a new design curated for a museum commemorating the life and work of the legendary Danish furniture…
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…
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…
“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…