February 2025. A small crowd gathers in the old city of Mosul to watch a tilted stone spire rise once more over the rooftops. Officials, UNESCO’s Director-General and residents who…
Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection of essays, edited by Marc Treib. The book investigates how built environments and landscapes record, store, and transmit human…
1. How societies shape the built environment Our global cityscapes are always an evolved manifestation of their history and culture. For example, Paris has both modern and historic buildings. The…
Bandra, alias Queen of Suburbs, is easily the heartthrob of Mumbaikars, and for good reason: it sits along the coastline and seamlessly blends modern lifestyle and popular culture. But beyond…
The Building with Two Birth Dates The most revealing feature of the Bofill Foundation HQ, Barcelona, Spain, is not its exposed brick or restored timber, but the uncertainty held within…
The Tomb of Salabat Khan II is a historic monument in the city of Ahilyanagar in Maharashtra. It is a simple and interesting building to understand architecturally. Historic buildings help…
Casablanca has been widely called the “Art Deco city”, since it has been an open air laboratory for architectural experimentations. But its history is more nuanced than this plain simplification.…
While architecture is often defined in terms of buildings, it also includes other important components that make up the city: interstitial spaces between buildings, including streets, ramps, walls, bridges, and…
I pass this building every morning on my commute from Lalbaug to Lower Parel. It’s wedged between the bigger structures, narrow and exhausted-looking. The original brick is exposed in patches…
The skyline of the city, the roads, the marketplaces, and the speedy development of the city have all been used to describe Mumbai. But there were times when the coast…
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…
The Citadel of Qaitbay is a Mamluk fortress located on the northern side of the Pharos Peninsula in Alexandria, Egypt. It was built by order of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay in…