Important to conserve architectural character of state, say experts
The architectural character of buildings in Goa should be promoted to maintain the state's identity instead of diluting it with alien features, opined speakers at the recent centenary year celebration...
View ArticleActivating Artists as an Urban Resource | Planetizen: The independent...
Long-time public artist Mary Miss serves as the first artist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC), with a mandate "to change the culture of an agency known for...
View Article"Show audiences that it's okay to dream" by Kickstarting Never Built New York
Architecture author and curator Sam Lubell is partnering with the Queens Museum to bring Never Built New York into the physical display space with a little help from Kickstarter. The drive, which needs...
View ArticleThe Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’
When Americans were introduced last year to Ivanka Trump’s husband and the nation’s prospective son-in-law in chief, it was as the preternaturally poised, Harvard-educated scion of a real-estate empire...
View ArticleUrbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography
Urbanities – Journal of Urban Ethnography - Vol 7 No1, May 2017 is now available online1
View ArticleHow Not to Run a Club; A conversation with Scott Frank, ex-Senior Director of...
We are joined this week by Scott Frank of Argo Communications.
View ArticleTaller, Denser, but More Affordable Housing Coming to San Francisco
Following a similar ordinance signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee last July that dealt with developments that are 100 percent affordable, the new housing density ordinance apples to market-rate...
View ArticleWhy Great Cities Need Great Universities
According to UCSD Extension Dean and sociologist Dr. Mary Walshok, in the 21st century, universities and research institutions are crucial components to making any city great.At CityAge: Build the...
View ArticleSoon, get building permit, ration card within 24 hours of applying online
The municipalities of 500 cities with a population of over a lakh will soon have to issue documents such as construction permits, ration cards, birth and death certificates, and marriage papers within...
View ArticleJewish and Sephardic Otherness in Space and Architecture at International...
This session will focus on the depiction of Jewish Otherness in architecture. It will focus on the sculptural and painted decorations showing Jewish dance, flowers, plants, and animals related to...
View ArticleOriental and Muslim Otherness in Western Space and Architecture at...
This session will focus on the depiction of Otherness in paintings and sculpted ornaments in architecture which show intercultural connections between Muslim, Oriental and Christian, Western cultures...
View ArticleIdeas and visions of architects on show
Several innovative and unique ideas that emerged from the thesis of final year bachelor of architecture students were put on display at Rangayan Gallery, Chitnavis Centre, on Friday and Saturday.
View ArticleThe foreign input and the ugly outcome
In one such trip to a global industrial power, for a surreptitious scheme revolving around the “beautification” of an important road in Dhaka city, the touring team comprised of every profession but...
View ArticlePlan to get CM Amarinder’s ancestral house, Qila Mubarak, on UNESCO heritage...
The Punjab government has mooted a plan to get included 250-year-old historic Qila Mubarak, the ancestral house of Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh in the list of United Nations...
View ArticleAn artist's tribute to his inspiration - nature
From the rhinos at Kaziranga to the magnificent deer with antlers that could very well re-imagine a map of boned abundance to a peacock sitting and watching bricks being tossed up, artist Ashish...
View ArticleA controversial museum is forcing Italy to talk about its fascist past
The shops that line the main street of Predappio, a small town in Italy’s Sangiovese countryside, seem innocent enough—the biggest one is simply called “Predappio Souvenirs.” But it’s what’s inside...
View ArticleIndustry not happy with cement placed in highest slab under GS
With cement coming under the 28% tax rate structure under Goods and Services Tax (GST), the industry is not happy with the government slotting it under the highest tax structure as the sector is...
View ArticleDelhi villages' upgrade to boost housing supply
The Delhi government’s notification to declare 89 rural villages of 95 as urban areas will help to operationalise the land pooling policy in the national capital and pave the way for affordable housing...
View ArticleBook Review: The Architecture of Hasmukh C. Patel
Hasmukh C. Patel, best known to have popularised the phrase ‘common sense architecture’, started his practice in 1956, in Ahmedabad. Over the years he evolved both his building style and the form of...
View ArticleAffordable housing: Affordable housing emerging as new focus of housing...
"Affordable housing is now attracting the interest of more developers who had previously shunned it because of its down-market image. Today, it has become a respectable segment and with the...
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