How GST will impact real estate sector going forward
After many reforming initiations like “Housing for all” and RERA, the next thing that Real Estate along with all other sector is looking forward to is the Goods and Services Tax. GST is set to get...
View ArticleDetroit Making its Streets 'Sticky'
"A good downtown needs more than stadiums and skyscrapers. It also needs all the sidewalk-level stuff that, down on the human scale, engages people and makes them want to come back for more," according...
View ArticleSystem reboot for Indian real estate
Indian real estate is witnessing a ‘systems re-boot’ that began with demonetization, the legislation on benami properties, RERA Act and now, Goods & Services Tax. The Union Budget for 2017-18 also...
View ArticleThe First Annual International Bamboo Architectural Biennale Explores...
Last fall the very first International Bamboo Architecture Biennale premiered in the small village of Baoxi, China, placing eighteen permanent works by twelve international architects within the...
View ArticleIn Razing Its Modernist Buildings, Iran Is Erasing Its Past Western Influence
On January 19, 2017, the Plasco Tower, a 17-story high-rise, collapsed in the centre of Tehran killing more than 20 firefighters and injuring dozens.
View ArticleThe failing architect who dreamt up modern America
This year is the 150th anniversary of the American architect’s birth, and there is a great deal of activity to mark the occasion: a blockbuster show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (12 June–1...
View ArticleWorkshop “TRANSPLANTED PLACES - Garden Design and Shifting Cultural...
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Joachim Rees, Prof. Dr. Jeong-hee Lee-KalischPROGRAM22.06.2017 – Thursday18:00-19:30 Welcome address - Joachim Rees, Jeong-Hee Lee-KalischKey note - Hans von Trotha (Berlin): A...
View ArticleFive Directors of Italian Museums Lose Jobs After Court's Ruling
An administrative court in Italy voided the appointments of five museum directors on May 24, striking a startling blow to the country’s ambitious 2015 initiative to open competition for top cultural...
View ArticleMumbai-Nagpur highway: MSRDC wants special power to plan smart cities on...
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) will soon control nearly 25,920 acres of land designated for the proposed smart cities along the 701-km Mumbai-Nagpur super communication...
View ArticleEuropean Architectural History Network (Tallinn, 13-16 June 18)
Abstracts are invited for the fifth European Architectural History Network International Meeting, in Tallinn, June 2018. Please submit your abstract to one of the sessions and round tables listed on...
View ArticleFabrications: JSAHANZ 28:2 “Tropical Zone: People, Practices and Pedagogies”
The spaces of normative cultures dominate the heritage arena suppressing or marginalising other competing forms of heritage. Architecture is uniquely positioned to resist these hegemonic processes...
View ArticleMeet Montréal’s New Wave of Activist Developers
In the heart of a historically working-class neighborhood just southwest of downtown Montréal, a 90,000-square-foot abandoned railroad warehouse has become an unlikely symbol of the city’s future.
View ArticleSpend more money on the public space – for all our sakes
According to the Global Footprint Network, every person in the UK uses the equivalent of 5 hectares of land and seathrough the food we eat, the products we use and the carbon we release, which has to...
View ArticleProgressives Against Housing
In the new book Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, CUNY's Tom Angotti criticizes upzoning; he favors lots of new public housing for poor people, but it is not clear to...
View ArticleArchitectural Histories invites paper abstracts for a special themed issue on...
We live today in a world of rapid change. These changes take form in technological innovations, socio-economic shifts, political uncertainties, cultural developments, and climatic and ecological...
View ArticleExternally-induced meditative states: an exploratory fMRI study of...
Built environments can induce contemplative states, but direct evidence for their impact on the brain is lacking. This exploratory work investigated brain correlates of internal states elicited by...
View ArticleA World Tour Through a Collection of Paper Architectural Models
Architect David Kemnitzer spent decades collecting paper models of castles, nuclear power plants, modernist houses, farms, and skyscrapers, starting from his childhood in the 1940s. But he never...
View ArticleRenzo Piano about the "idea of openness as an antidote to terrorism"
CityLab recently sat down with Piano for a conversation that, among other topics, touched on urban peripheries, Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus, and "the importance of designing...
View ArticleReal Life Robocop Has Been Spotted Roaming the Streets of Dubai
Robocop has now become a reality. The world’s first robot police officer is now patrolling Dubai. It is 5’5” tall, and it helps and assists people on the streets, and even in the malls. ... It can read...
View ArticleNew lexicon of Indian cities: Three years of urban renaissance, unfolding...
About 20 cities are now gearing up to issue municipal bonds to mobilise resources for their infrastructure development initiatives under new urban missions launched during the last two years. This...
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