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HUDCO IPO opens today: Price per share, other facts to know about Housing and...

The issue that closes on May 11 is predicted to have a valuation between 1.25 to 1.35 times its December 31, 2016 book value.

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More to a mosque than meets the eye

Shahidul Alam's photo exhibit “Embracing the Other” at Bait Ur Rouf

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One Big Problem With Obama's Presidential Library

Carving out space in Olmsted-designed Jackson Park for Obama’s presidential library misses an opportunity—and sets a bad precedent.

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Koothattukulam to implement two housing projects for the homeless

KOCHI:  The Koothattukulam municipality has accorded sanction to two separate projects by the Central and state governments to build  apartment complex for the homeless/landless in the municipal...

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Oracle OpenWorld India begins; Here’s agenda, keynote address and major...

With India emerging as a key epicentre of technology, Oracle is bringing its flagship conference, Oracle OpenWorld for the very first time to...

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Archaeogeneticist pinpoints Indian population origins using today's populace

Scientists have identified migrating humans from Africa, Iran and Central Asia over a period of 50,000 years

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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City

(Bloomberg) -- Larry Page's dream of using technology to fix cities may come to Canada first. 

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How the Unwilling Gentrifier Buys a Home

A diary of my attempt to make an ethical housing choice in Chicago.

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Corporate Gardens of the Anthropocene

A particularly compelling example of this emerging “geographical zone” is a huge residential complex built atop the access road to New York’s George Washington Bridge. The four towering structures of...

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Achyut Kanvinde on the Quest for Quality Architecture

In this essay, the well-known architect talked about the challenges facing urban designers in recognising human values and understanding contemp

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Sixth International Congress of Construction History, 6ICCH

Broad range of topics will be breached during the congress. For the first time, general open sessions as well as special thematic sessions will be organized. The open sessions will cover a wide variety...

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India unanimously elected to head UN-Habitat, the United Nations’ Human...

New Delhi: India has been unanimously chosen as the President of the UN-Habitat, an body of the United Nations’ Organization (UNO) that advances socially and naturally supportable human settlements...

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Phenomenology and Early Modern Cartography

Call for Session at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans

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City mayors are far more nimble and proactive than Westminster politicians:...

With the election of two more Labour mayors, the party has a chance to make a real difference to people’s lives

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When is architecture protected by intellectual property rights? This redditor...

... a cease and desist letter with a threat to sue. The homeowner is unclear if there was a clause in the original contractor specifying that you’re not permitted to rebuild the same design on the same...

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THE COMPLICATED ARCHITECTURE OF ALBERT SPEER, JR.

Back then, it was simply a path that opened itself up. I could draw well, I could express myself, I had ideas,” he said in the TV documentary. “The father played hardly any role, but what has always...

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Foster + Partners | Branch Technology win Phase 2, Level 1 of NASA 3D-Printed...

In the coming weeks, the teams will work on their designs for the Phase 2 - Level 2 Beam Member Competition, in which a beam will be 3D-printed to test spanning structures.

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In their rush to become "global", cities risk creating spatial apartheid

Maboneng was carved out of Jeppestown, a working-class neighbourhood in Johannesburg’s CBD. It has developed rapidly since 2009. But surrounding Jeppestown is still mostly occupied by low-income black...

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Making the Case for Wooden Buildings

Walk into the cavernous atrium of the National Building Museum a few blocks north of DC’s National Mall, and you’ll find a piece of wood whose scale rivals the 75-foot-tall, 8-foot-diameter masonry...

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Zarch #9: Architecture, the act of looking and visual culture

In the book "The Perception of the Visual World", written by James J. Gibson and commissioned by the US Air Force at the start of World War Two, the author distinguishes between what he calls the...

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