Mumbai's housing crisis: Redevelopment of clusters to affect city's...
Recycling land to create housing stock is one way to solve the housing crisis in Mumbai. With high prices that show no sign of dipping, recycling is all that Mumbai has, being a city constrained by the...
View ArticleHistorical Modernisms (London, 12 Dec 16)
Counter to the conventional perception of modernism as ahistorical, there have been recent academic and critical efforts to historicize it. The Historical Modernism Symposium seeks to contribute to...
View ArticleMaharashtra Signed MoU Worth 1 Billion With Oracle To Develop Ecosystem For...
This announcement at the ongoing Openworld event in San Francisco follows Oracle’s recent commitment with the prime minister of India Narendra Modi to support the country’s global digital initiatives...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Ena de Silva's moving house
It had been created for the artist and designer Ena de Silva and her husband Osmund in 1960 by Geoffrey Bawa , a man now widely acknowledged as the foremost architect of his generation in Sri Lanka, if...
View Article27 more cities on their way to become smart cities
In an exclusive press conference organised by the Ministry of Urban Development, M Venkaiah Naidu, the Cabinet Minister for Urban Development announced the third set from the 98 listed regions which...
View ArticleGrounding Biopower: Inventions of Land and Landscape
In his early lectures on biopolitics, Michel Foucault described a crucial shift occurring in eighteenth-century Europe as population came to displace territory as the primary object of sovereignty....
View ArticleSri Someshwara Swamy Temple: Facelift defacing 1, 250-year-old Ulsoor temple,...
It is centuries older than the city that houses it. Located in the heart of Bengaluru, the 1,250-year-oldSri Someshwara Swamy Templeboasts of a rich heritage - it was built by the Chola dynasty and...
View ArticleWhat do Contentious Objects Want? (Florence, 21-22 Oct 16)
Works of modern art, archaeological or ethnographic artefacts and human remains generally occupy separate realms in the museum world. Yet, the growing discourse surrounding claims on certain objects...
View ArticleComp, Outcomes: AP cancels design submitted by Maki
Vijayawada: The process of selection of an internationally-reputed architect to design the iconic structures in the seed capital city suffered a setback after the Chandrababu Naidu government scrapped...
View ArticleMeet the new C-level executives born of smart cities
Network World discussed some of the new smart city specialists that are appearing as advisors for governments that are leading the smart cities charge.
View ArticleDavid Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language - The New...
The first really fine major public building of the century to rise in the nation’s capital, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening on Saturday, fills the last prime plot...
View ArticleBangladesh sings deal on feasibility study for new airport
Dhaka – The government on Wednesday signed a deal with a Japanese company to launch feasibility study for construction of a new airport in Bangladesh, officials said.The proposed airport will be named...
View Article‘Low-cost housing’s defective architecture to blame for 2015 heat wave deaths’
The massive toll claimed by the heatwave of July 2015 was an outcome of the defectively planned low-cost housing and houses in shanty towns, observed Prof Jamil Kazmi, of the University of Karachi’s...
View ArticleRs 700 crore slum redevelopment fund floated
GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has floated a Slum Redevelopment Premium Fund (SRPF) with initial corpus of Rs 700 crore. This fund from the central and state government's grants will be...
View ArticleIstanbul Demolishing 3 Skyscrapers to Preserve City Skyline
At the heart of this particular legal issue are views of a series of structures long central to the civic identity of Istanbul, including the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace and Blue Mosque, all of which...
View ArticleNeuinterpretation von Architektur (Zuerich, 20-21 Oct 16)
„A Dialogue of the Arts: Reinterpreting Architectural Structure and its Description in Literature of Early Modern Times to the Present“During the earlier conferences of 2010, 2012 and 2014, which dealt...
View ArticleAmbassador of Indian culture
If it is true that culture is a vehicle of international understanding and those promoting it are its ambassadors, then Alice Boner, indeed, deserves to be called an Ambassador of Indian culture,” this...
View ArticleBack to life brick by brick
One of Sri Lanka’s foremost conservation experts, Nilan Cooray talks to Smriti Daniel about the challenges of restoring ancient monuments to their former glory.
View ArticleCUPUM - International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban...
For more than twenty five years, CUPUM has been one of the premier international conferences for the exchange of ideas and applications of computing technologies to address a diverse range of social,...
View Article'Nijo Griha' housing projects speeds up
The state municipal affairs department has taken a special drive to speed up construction of 'Nijo Griha' for the urban poor belonging to the Economically Weaker Section of the society. ... Officials...
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