“As urban designers, we must work as surgeons or auto mechanics and repair the diverse broken parts of the city”. (Roger Trancik, 1986) In a post-modern contemporary age with an…
“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.” – John Updike. A…
“What defines the character of a city is its public space, not its private space. What defines the value of the private assets of the space are not the assets…
Landscape architecture is about maintaining the balance between ecology and mankind. To address the deteriorating balance of our relationship with the environment, a need for landscape architecture has become urgent.…
Throughout history, the cultural and symbolic values of every epoch and society have undoubtedly manifested through architecture. These built forms are not only visual translations of the advancement and developments…
An urban inspiration to London, Washington, and St. Petersburg, this French city constitutes to this day one of the highest visited spots in the world. Erected under the command of…
Bridges have always been a subject of fascination displaying the marvels of engineering. They not only help in forming new transport routes saving travel time for expanding cities but also…
…with destruction evolves construction; with time evolves style! Whether destruction out of wars or outbreak of epidemics, living organisms on earth have always witnessed drastic changes ever since life existed.…
The WHO predicts that by 2020 depression will turn into the subsequent driving reason for illness around the world. The worldwide quest for the financial turn of events i.e. the…
Public spaces are the pulse of the city. To an ever-increasing extent, new open spaces and redeveloped public spaces are developing all around the globe as a reasonable method to…
Dar es salaam literally means “peace of haven”. This important port is rather an ironic cacophony of colonial, urban and modern traces of architecture. The contrast hence produced amongst the…
Jan Gehl, a renowned Urban Design Consultant in Denmark, has spent years studying public spaces. According to his findings, these spaces in architecture deserve a more careful design and thoughtful…
