With Water And Power Shortage, Can Bangalore Become A Smart City?
Bangalore is dependent on the Cauvery river for water. Lack of rainfall has resulted in water scarcity in the river.
View ArticleMicrogrids - The Potential to Power India's Future - Energy Speak by Anand...
Microgrids are shifting our conception of how power is produced and distributed. A microgrid is a small-scale localized power generation and distribution network, capable of operating independently or...
View ArticleArchitects, designers from across the world come to Amaravati, to ideate on...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at the foundation laying ceremony of Amaravati (Representational...
View ArticleShaping future change makers
What does it take to become a change maker? Well, the answer is pretty simple, speak up your mind for the issues you care. BRAC University Global Model United Nations (BUGMUN), one of the biggest Model...
View ArticleRise High Bangladesh
The export idea contest “Rise High Bangladesh”, jointly organised by The Daily Star and Crown Cement, has successfully completed its 'journey'
View ArticleAn Indian businessman built the world’s largest air-cooler company, giving...
Achal Bakeri could have taken an easier way out if he wanted.
View ArticleA monument of Bangladesh and the world
The month of December in Bangladesh is a time of remembrance and reflection. The country's independence in that month in 1971 was followed by a yearning to memorialise the heroism and sacrifice of the...
View ArticleEducational overhaul in new era
The digital world is set to lead to an explosion of 500 per cent increase in jobs by 2018. Spurred by disruptive changes in business models, even end user businesses would transform, taking into...
View Article7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS: Urban Africa - Urban...
The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies on behalf of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) invite you to submit paper proposals for the 7th...
View ArticleToward a Geography of Architectural Criticism (Paris/Rennes, 3-4 Apr 17)
The research project Mapping.Crit.Arch: Architectural criticism 20th and 21st centuries, a cartography, funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, aims to develop a field of research on the...
View ArticleLessons India Can Learn From The World
In the Global Perspective Panel of BW Smart Cities, different panelists participated and shared the lessons that India can learn from the world. ...Amit Singh, Director, PwC, who was moderating the...
View ArticleJ&K govt gives nod to establish architecture schools
Jammu and Kashmir government today approved the setting up of two architecture schools in the capital cities of the state which will offer courses in architecture and design at undergraduate...
View ArticleSewage plan to take AMRUT route
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city corporation has preferred a centralized sewage management while initiating steps to resume the laying of sewage network connecting Kazhakkoottam and Muttathara.
View ArticleLe Corbusier Museum in Poissy Gets Green Light
According to Le Parisien, an agreement towards the creation of the museum was signed on Monday by the mayor of Poissy, Karl Olive, representatives of the Le Corbusier Foundation, the Center for...
View ArticleUrban artists with rural links: Contemporary art and social practice (Panel...
For two decades now, international research and exhibitions on contemporary African art have had a strong focus on urban art forms and expression. This is not without merit, contributing amongst other...
View ArticleGlobal East Asian Cinema: Abjection and Agency (journal issue, deadline Aug....
This thematic double issue of Studies in the Humanities addresses globalization as a blossoming of inclusive systems of transnational capitalism, multicultural traffic, and networking technology, which...
View ArticleKochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 diary: Demonetisation, Sudarshan Shetty's vision...
Compared to the last two editions of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, this one had fallen squarely in the midst of Modi’s demonetisation blunder, which obviously complicated the sourcing of intoxicating...
View ArticleHow the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, now in its third edition, created an...
Twelve venues. 108 days. 97 artists. 31 countries. And more than half a million visitors expected. That’s the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016 for you. Bose Krishnamachari, president of Kochi Biennale...
View ArticleDr Mehreen highlights Sindh-to-Hunza architectural jewels in London
Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, a Research Associate at the University of London gave an illustrated talk on ‘Architectural Jewels of Pakistan – from Sindh to the Hunza Valley’ at the Pakistan High Commission...
View ArticleStarchitecture
In recent years, media and critical attention has been lavished on famous architects, and the contributions of their designs to the branding of cities. The post-“Bilbao effect” global landscape is one...
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