Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus To Get A Swachh Makeover
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) is one of the most majestic and iconic buildings in India. It was designed by British architect F W Stevens and was named after the Empress of India, Queen Victoria....
View ArticleSynagogue and Museum (Braunschweig, 21-23 Nov 16)
"Synagogue and Museum" - 3rd International Congress on Jewish ArchitectureOrganized by the Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture (Technische Universität Braunschweig/ Center for Jewish Art...
View ArticleMehrauli Talkies - Urban Podcast Workshop
Soundboard Media and Sehreeti bring to Mehrauli a two day workshop called ‘Mehrauli Talkies - Mehrauli Ki Kahaniyaan – Mehrauli ki Zubaani’ on 1st and 2nd October exploring Mehrauli’s urban narratives,...
View ArticleCouncil of Architects & Town Planners revokes NCA’s accreditation over...
Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners, PCATP, issued a public notification on September 17 about the status of more than two dozen schools, colleges and universities that offer B.Arch and...
View ArticleThey can only watch monuments from afar
JAIPUR: This World Tourism Day , Rajasthan would not be able to live up to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) theme, `Tourism for All - Promoting Universal Accessibility .' The state that ranks...
View ArticleA new cartography for catalysts, not just cities
Most of the discussion about cities, their problems, the solutions and progress has focused on them as places; particular territories with infrastructure penetration, economic output, built-up areas,...
View ArticleFour myths about slums: 'Don't assume people want to leave'
Myth 1: You can’t predict how slum populations are going to grow“One thing that is poorly understood is population growth in Africa,” says William Cobbett, director of Cities Alliance.“It is thought...
View ArticleGrand Gestures (Basel, 10 Oct - 8 Dec 16)
Grand Gestures: Planning, Contingency and the Image of the Modern City / Part 2From Brasilia to Boston, from Bucharest to Chandigarh, Grand Gestures are not the same as the Great Deeds they were...
View ArticleArt and Presence (Odense, 15-16 Sep 17)
Presence and atmosphere has become a new object of study across academic fields within the humanities. Academics have described “presence” as moments of aesthetic intensity, while others use the term...
View ArticleFight at the museum: how George Lucas learned that cultural locations matter
It came as little surprise that George Lucas and other backers then chose a lakefront site for his proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Yet in 2016 their proposal prompted fierce opposition and a...
View ArticleArchitecture of Embodiment - Invitation to the lecture and exhibition,...
Architecture of Embodiment: an aesthetic research dispositiveThe closing event and public presentation of the aesthetic reseach project Architecture of Embodiment by Alex Arteaga, Head of Auditory...
View ArticleFashioned from Holy Matter (Florence, 6-7 Jul 17)
This workshop draws attention to a particular type of image, which has not been studied yet as a group: images that were made of or shaped from holy matter, such as earth, stone, blood, sweat or wood....
View ArticleCityLab summit gathering global mayors in Miami in Oct.
The focus in 2016 may be on national politics, but it’s cities and the people who live in them that are more often the epicenter for change, innovation, upheaval, leadership, and progress.
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi should give Jinnah House to Jinnah's daughter: Subramanian...
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Thursday suggested that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should hand over Jinnah House in Mumbai to the only daughter of founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah."Now I...
View ArticleUNESCO team starts evaluating sites in Ahmedabad for heritage tag
A UNESCO team on Wednesday started its five-day visit to the monuments here to evaluate if the city deserves a world heritage status. ... A team headed by Adel Farhangi Shabesstari, a south Asia expert...
View ArticleMahendra Raj: Engineering Modern India
Mahendra Raj will be visiting Europe in coming October for a series of events related to the book "The Structure - Works of Mahendra Raj"1
View ArticleIIMs seek Cabinet approval for withdrawal of 1975 HRD order
Following the incessant controversy over the appointment of IIM faculty under quota system for the reserved candidates, it is now been learned that the premier institutes had to be withdrawn the 1975...
View ArticleIndia to set up 20 world-class institutes
In a bid to promote international quality education, the HRD Ministry has embarked to a project that will set up 20 world-class institutions (WCI). The decision comes after Prime Minister's Office...
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