Placemaking Starts With People In architecture today, Placemaking has moved from being a conference buzzword to a design philosophy that genuinely matters. It is the point where buildings step aside…
There is a street in Dadar that I return to almost instinctively, as if something in it remembers me. It’s nothing spectacular: a few spice shops, cloth banners hanging loosely,…
How Cities Finally Started Building for Everyone For more than a decade, the housing story across the world has been a grim loop: skyrocketing rents, stalled construction, slow approvals, and…
Formula One carries a distinct atmosphere that is recognised long before a race begins. The sound, the tension and the pace of movement around the venue create an environment that…
“It took God 7 days to create the world; it won’t take him more than 1 year to build an ordinary structure…” Those were the words Bishop David Oyedepo, an…
Set in the middle of a cosmopolitan city is a dominant transit hub – Penn Station, New York City. Recently redeveloped, the Moynihan Train Hall at the station provides an…
This paper examines the systemic erasure of pedestrian infrastructure in Indian cities, situating the phenomenon of “missing pavements” within the larger context of car-centric planning, governance apathy, and informal urban…
Every city has to tell a story, but Mumbai’s story is like a Symphony. It hums through its crowded trains and silent sea faces, through glass towers and old chawls,…
The Olympic question as an Architectural opportunity India’s aspiration to host the Olympics is more an Architectural and urban proposition than a sporting one. The sporting event requires a cluster…
In the heart of Lower Manhattan, a bold architectural signal rises from the site of the former towers: the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. Conceived as much more than a…
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…
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…