Mumbai, Lucknow miss a shot at UNESCO Creative Cities network
Two major cities in India have missed out on their chance to be a part of the prestigious UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) this year. While the dossier to support Chennai has been submitted by the...
View ArticleUNESCO: Crucial Unesco session begins today
The walled cityof Ahmedabad will be among 26 cultural sites in the world that will be assessed for the World Heritage City (WHC) status at the 41st session of Unesco in Krakow city of Poland. The...
View ArticleIncubating art - Escalate
Gallery MCube has been hosting art residencies for quite a few years now. On June 23, they opened their doors to the public for a viewing of artworks created during their seventh season. It felt...
View ArticleTogether! The New Architecture of the Collective
The current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, ‘Together!
View Article‘Bauhaus in Motion’ at Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin
The Bauhaus-Archiv is presenting highlights from the Bauhaus Collection for the last time before construction work begins on the museum’s expansion in 2018. The museum is utilizing this occasion to...
View ArticleOoty’s colonial-era architecture is getting a much needed facelift, says...
Ooty’s iconic Higginbothams bookstore might be under threat, but several Raj-era buildings are putting up a brave fight. ... While century-old Higginbothams may have closed shop after the building it...
View ArticleModi govt proposal would "undermine" archaeological sites, monuments to...
The Union Cabinet decision to amend the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 2010, to allow centrally-funded projects to be set up in the prohibited area of the...
View ArticleBandra Fort beautification gets MCZMA approval
The Bandra Fort precinct beautification project, initiated by the H-West ward of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has got in-principle approval from the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management...
View ArticleThirsty Vijayapura reaches into ancient bawadis
21 huge, open wells, built around 500 years ago, are filling with water after desilting and providing a vital source of water for this arid city in Karnataka.A little over two months ago, the historic...
View ArticleThe politics of fire: from Ancient Rome and San Francisco to Grenfell Tower
Flames were still visible inside the charred shell of Grenfell Tower when the backlash to the backlash began. “Too much political point-scoring going on about the Grenfell Tower tragedy,” complained...
View ArticleChina’s Vision for a Straddling Bus Dissolves in Scandal and Arrests
After some delays and breathless news coverage, the TEB-1, or Transit Elevated Bus, was tested in August in the northern seaside town of Qinhuangdao.
View ArticleBhopal: Govt banking on Sri Lanka for building Sita Mata temple
It was way back in 2010 that chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, during his visit to Sri Lanka, had announced a contribution of Rs 1 crore from the state government for construction of Sita Mata...
View ArticleARCHTHEO '17 / XI. International Conference on Theory and History of...
XI. International Conference on Theory and History of Architecture will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research...
View ArticleCall for Book Chapters Gentrification around the World: Gentrifiers and the...
Gentrification around the World: Gentrifiers and the DisplacedEditors: Judith N. DeSena, St. Johns University and Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College CUNYTopics and Objectives
View ArticleNew housing projects dip across country, Ahmedabad sees sharpest decline
The real estate market in Ahmedabad has virtually screeched to a halt with the city recording the biggest decline in number of new housing units being launched between January to June period. A real...
View ArticleWhich ghost Contractor has built Empress City flats?
Nagpur: Some weeks ago, the flat owners of Empress City, touted as old Nagpur’s first luxury township with “world class amenities” held a press conference were they for the first time spoke up about...
View ArticleNature as Construction Material: Ra. Revista de Arquitectura 20, 2018
The forest is by definition the antithesis of the city, a place of mystery and darkness where the laws of reason do not apply. Or at least, such has been the narrative of western civilization since...
View ArticleNon-availability of sand hits construction industry
Non-availability of sand, lack of guidelines on usage of M-Sand as an alternative, and steep hike in registration charges have resulted in the construction industry coming to a halt, forcing the...
View ArticleWhy Is There So Much Modern Architecture In The NRA’s New Ad?
If you came across a video featuring Frank Gehry‘s frenetic Disney Concert Hall, Renzo Piano’s towering New York Times building, John Portman‘s postmodern Westin Bonaventure Hotel, the Art Deco Los...
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