Desertification affects about six to twelve kilometres of land on the earth, thereby threatening about one billion earth’s inhabitants with further desertification. Desertification can be defined as the degradation of…
Location: Santiago, Chile Architects: Alejandro Aravena Area: 5000 m² Year of completion: 2005 Alejandro Aravena designed the Siamese tower in Santiago, giving an imaginative yet straightforward design approach to the…
With the modern era came a surge pushing for different ways, or a revival of expressing the architecture of places, and objects, the exploration of the architecture of places newly…
‘What building does this site really want to see? What is the happiness quotient? What comfort spaces are we about to build? How should we design spaces that have the…
Architecture was not generally considered a profession. The individual who could make the standing structures that did not collapse was called an Architect. As a matter of fact, the term…
Bangalore-based Indian architect Chitra Vishwanath focuses on ecology and sustainability in architecture. She is the principal architect and managing director of Biome Environment Solutions in Bangalore, which has been involved…
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and has a demographic of 206 million people and Africa’s largest market by population, preceded by Ethiopia and Egypt, which have populations of 110 million…
A world without architecture seems almost unimaginable. Instead of being viewed purely as a discipline, architecture may even be considered a derivative of nature itself. Since the beginning of time,…
Resilient design stands for the design of buildings, landscapes, regions, and communities responding to manmade and natural disasters as well as the long-term effects of climate change. Climate-resilient design ought to…
Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland and UN high commissioner for human rights, has tirelessly advocated for gender equality, human rights, and social justice globally. Although relatively new to…
Climate change and global warming have been pressing issues for the last few decades. Buildings, including residential and commercial, are a major contribution to energy consumption. The energy consumption in…
The placement of the Chinese city of Guilin is more than peculiar; surrounded by spectacular rock mounds covered with vegetation and a framework formed by two rivers and four lakes.…