Railway stations to be redeveloped under Smart City initiative
In a major initiative, the Indian Railways has signed an MoU with Union Urban Development Ministry to redevelop railway stations and adjoining areas on the lines of Smart City. To enhance passenger...
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Wang, 52, is dean of the School of Architecture at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 2012, he was the first Chinese national to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often called “the Nobel...
View ArticleChanging the world: Urban experiments in the United Kingdom, 19th-21st centuries
The United Kingdom has long been a fertile ground for utopias and urban experiments. From Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the New Towns of the 1950s and 1960s and William Morris’s News from Nowhere...
View ArticleJane Jacobs's Tunnel Vision
My introduction to Jane Jacobs was completely ordinary. Like many, many architecture students since its publication in 1962, I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities for an introductory...
View ArticleThe Art of Scenography (Munich, 17-18 Nov 16)
The Department of Theatre Studies at the LMU Munich, in conjunction with the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Residenztheater, is currently organizing an international conference in the field of...
View ArticleHiding in Plain Site (Urbana-Champaign, 10-11 Mar 17)
This symposium will interrogate representations of the everyday—the banal and the vernacular— in order to create new zones of engagement with the visual field, project alternative archives, and...
View ArticlePR: Smart Cities International Symposium in Chicago to Examine Key Challenges...
The world's urban population is expected to increase by 60 per cent between 2014 and 2050, when 6.3 billion people are projected to live in urban settlements. New insights and solutions are urgently...
View ArticleA group of architects striving to renovate Karachi zoo
A team of seven architects headed by Zain Mustafa, who is also an architect and designer, are striving to renovate the Karachi zoo to improve the quality of life of the animals there.
View ArticleMuseum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana
Future Architecture, the first European architectural platform, coordinated by the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), just completed its first year of operation. The platform promoted an emerging...
View ArticleIn Charts: India Inc raises record amount in unsecured corporate bonds in...
The total funds mobilised by Indian companies through non-convertible debentures (NCDs) during the first six months of this financial year jumped to the highest in at least seven years thanks to large...
View ArticleAdministration sleeps over site management plan for Sonar Fort
JAISALMER: Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2013, the site management plan of the fragile Sonar Fort is still not in place in totality. Now with the deadline for UNESCO reviewing the conservation...
View ArticleNAREDCO Summit magnifies real estate as economic growth engine
National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) with APREA have organised two day Summit on Real Estate Infrastructure and Investment in Mumbai. The major focus was to highlight that infrastructure,...
View ArticleHigh cost of building materials driving housing deficit, says NIOB boss
The President, Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Builder Gbenga Tijani Shuaib , has said over 17milion Nigerians presently suffers from housing deficit as result of high cost of building...
View ArticleIndore stands out as role model for Smart City mission: Venkaiah Naidu
Union minister Venkaiah Naidu praised the Madhya Pradesh government for making remarkable progress in the Smart City mission, saying Indore stands out as a perfect example before the country in meeting...
View ArticleState for freeing up salt pans, but MMRDA thinks otherwise
Amid the state government’s push for opening up thousands of acres of salt pan land in the city for affordable housing, it has emerged that its development arm MMRDA has strongly advocated any form of...
View ArticleSpecial purpose vehicle for Tirupati smart city
Andhra Pradesh government on Friday floated Tirupati smart city corporation limited for the development of temple town Tirupati as smart city. The SPV will be owned by the state government and the...
View ArticleUrban sprawl choking Ahmedabad's green future
AHMEDABAD: Two researchers from IIT-Mumbai used Isro's Landsat images to show how the increasing `urban sprawl' was eating away into the green spaces of Ahmedabad, choking its lungs and gobbling up...
View ArticleThe Statesman: New urban agenda
Representatives from 193 countries met between 17 and 20 October this year for the Habitat III Conference at Ecuador's charming capital, Quito, to sign the Quito Declaration, adopting the United...
View ArticlePresentation on "the vision and architectural philosophy of Le Corbusier " by...
The Chandigarh Architecture Museum and Le Corbusier Centre warmly invite you to a presentation by Padmshree B V DOSHION 26TH OCTOBER 2016 AT OPEN HAND, CAPITOL COMPLEX, CHANDIGARH5:00 PM TO 7:30 PM.Ar....
View ArticleArchitectural dialogues: Italy and Croatia in the interwar period (Zagreb, 27...
Conference series Architectural dialogues: Italy and Croatia in the interwar period
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