Architecture isn’t just the aesthetics of walls, windows, structures or anything. It’s the design of well-being and livelihood. Architects design a home considering lots of aspects, such as sun position,…
Behind every wall and corridor, architecture hides a subtle but powerful dimension: the emotional and psychological impact of space on its inhabitants. While the visible elements like structure, façade, and…
Most of us believe that a room’s color, furnishings, or style influences how we react to it. However, our emotional responses to constructed settings start long before those outward features…
When the elevator doors open and you step into the world of Silo, you are not visiting another dystopian set; you are entering a skyscraper. Instead of a building serving…
Architecture has its own way of showing emotions and human perception, like a scene in a film. Every scene of a narrow corridor or a symmetrical framing of the façade…
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…
City economies and built environments around the world are being reshaped by the business park development. Typically located on the perimeters of metropolitan hubs, business parks are service-designed agglomerations of…
Curling through clusters of trees, within the dense urban fabric of Mumbai, the Micro Forest Trail at Malabar Hill, officially the ‘Nisarga Unnat Marg’, emerges as a quiet intervention that redefines…
Children are such busybodies; every place needs to be explored, every object to be touched and felt. Exploration is a large part of a child’s play. Colours become one of…
Rammed earth construction has been employed for thousands of years, and is one of the oldest and most sustainable methods in human history. Long before concrete and steel filled our…
After a long night of rendering, most architects or designers close their laptops with a sigh of relief. The visuals are crisp, the presentation plates are ready, and another deadline…
A Premise to Ecological Boundaries and its Integration What are ecological boundaries? A physical feature that demarcates levels or properties? Nature-oriented areas restricted from artificial development? Or envelopes that differentiate…