A bird’s-eye view of the ruins of Mosul
Digital Globe, a commercial satellite company, recently released a series of bird's-eye images of Mosul before and after the government-led siege of the city. The first set of photos was taken in 2015,...
View ArticleThe Afterlife of Fascism: The Reception of Modern Italian Architecture and...
Nearly 75 years after the regime’s end, questions about the built legacy of Italian Fascism continue to provoke polemic responses and questions. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new...
View Article3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property...
The full paper submission deadline (extended) is on 4th August 2017. Hope that provides adequate time to complete the paper submission. If you need more time, please email at:...
View ArticleHow Niti Aayog, Health ministry plans privatisation of urban health centres
Earlier, the Niti Aayog had sent a draft copy to all state chief secretaries for their comments and views on the policy in which the states will have to allot 50 beds in all 300-bed state-run hospitals...
View ArticleFlipping the Script: Foregrounding the Architecture Student
Charrette (ISSN 2054-6718) is the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators. Volume 6, issue 1 (Spring 2019) will have the theme 'Flipping the Script: Foregrounding the Architecture...
View ArticleNews you can trust REITs, cooperatives top considerations as experts chart...
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and workers cooperative societies were top of considerations as experts gathered in Abuja recently to discuss the way forward for affordable housing delivery in...
View ArticleFrances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101
Ms. Gabe, a once-celebrated inventor who died in obscurity late last year, was the creator, and long the sole inhabitant, of the world’s only self-cleaning house.In January, the only public...
View ArticleGovt prevents fraud by private firm in the name of PM housing scheme
The ministry in June reported the fraud by the 'National Housing Development Organisation' to Delhi Police and an FIR has been lodged, the government told Rajya Sabha.
View ArticleWith push from Yo-Yo Ma, floating concert hall may end up in N.Y.
It is unclear where the funding for this project would come from. The asking price for Point Counterpoint II is currently at $2 million, shipping not included. This price point is nearly 5 percent of...
View ArticleArchaeologists bring back a part of Sheffield's illustrious steel-making past
A glimpse of a city's steel-making past has been unearthed at two archaeological sites.The sites are on view for the first time on Friday and show the heritage of Sheffield's steel industry.Digs at the...
View ArticleNo Maths? You can still get into BArch course
A day after announcing the admission schedule for Bachelor of Architecture course, the Admission Committee for Professional Courses has stated that there is no change in the admission norms for the...
View ArticleCLARA 5 Architectural Criticism and Public Debate
The yearly journal CLARA ARCHITECTURE/RECHERCHE, and the guest editors Hélène Jannière (Université Rennes 2) and Paolo Scrivano (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), invite submissions of papers...
View Article‘Le Corbusier was a poet of forms, a painter, a writer, a lover of nature’
“Le Corbusier was much more than just an architect. He was a visionary of sorts who tried to understand the city and the landscape at all scales. He made utopian proposals to deal with the...
View ArticleReviving Chandigarh Sector 17: Cast in Concrete
Sector 17 or the city centre has architecturally controlled buildings, which cannot be changed much due to their unique structure, as per the UT Administration. Over the years, hardly any changes have...
View ArticleSTIP: H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship
PURPOSEThe Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for 2017 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for...
View ArticleDelhi: Activists rise against green massacre in Pragati Maidan
Nature enthusiasts in the city have launched an online campaign - Save 1,713 trees at Pragati Maidan - and are also sourcing money through crowd funding to hire a lawyer to "defend the mute trees". The...
View ArticleA quiet masterpiece that serves as Dhaka's gateway
I didn't have a clue that Bob Boughey was alive and still working in Thailand. Every time I visit the Kamalapur Railway Station, I think of what he described to me a few years ago about the Dhaka of...
View ArticleGole Market heritage building to be turned into museum
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is all set to convert the quaint old Gole Market heritage building into a museum, in a bid to preserve the Lutyen' s Delhi history. The New Delhi Museum will come...
View ArticleUK professor designs ancient Hoysala-style temple in India
A Cardiff-based scholar of ancient Indian temple architecture has designed an ornate, complex temple based on the Hoysala tradition in Karnataka, where construction has started and the platform of the...
View Article'Biggest problem is projects left midway': Adityanath government warns...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday told businessmen that it was imperative to win the trust of the people and said the real estate sector was facing the "challenge" of meeting their...
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