Death is considered eerie and frightening. Yet, when you step into Cimitero Monumentale, one of Milan’s largest cemeteries, you experience a quiet peace. The cemetery boldly and beautifully honours the…
In some movies, architecture is scenery, but in others, it plays an important role. Cloud Atlas is one of the movies wherein architecture becomes an expression of time. Directed by…
The first time I went through a public library that had been frequently photographed, I spotted the security guard before I saw the atrium. He was standing by the entrance,…
When Ryland Grace wakes up from an induced coma, utterly alone, millions of light-years away from Earth, with the fate of humanity resting in his hands, he must get creative…
“What’s out there?” We all have used a map before. We used it to reach our destination. Its digital version is GPS. We use maps to understand where we are…
The beauty of architecture sometimes isn’t just what we see on a macro scale but is found in the small details. Usually, facade, materials, and form catch our attention first…
How the cities of literature, cinema, and speculative design have always been more than stories they are blueprints for the real, rehearsals for the possible, and warnings about the probable.…
Cities, conventionally, are divided into home, workplace and public spaces – live, work and play. But what happens when these distinctions disappear? You arrive at the plot of a movie…
The Korean series, known by its anglicized name, “It’s Okay to Not be Okay” is a sixteen-episode long drama featuring Seo Yea- Ji as Ko Mun-Yeong, Kim Soo-Hyun as Moon…
Translating a 3000 year old mythological epic of gods, man and everything in between from flesh-devouring giants, mythical underworld shades and witches with transformative powers- into a visual medium in…
Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) was directed by Hayao Miyazaki and adapted from Diana Wynne Jones’s novel of the same name. It follows Sophie, a young hat maker who…
In The Umbrella Academy, seven adopted siblings return to the house where they were raised as superheroes, after years apart, bringing with them the unresolved relationships of their childhood. The…