Review: where you live can kill you
Clare Bambra provides a good, easy-to-understand introduction to the major causes of health inequality in rich countries.The opening chapters introduce the concept of 'health divides' - not only across...
View ArticleBrutalism Is Back
Now, like the chevron mustache, Brutalism is undergoing something of a revival. Despite two generations of abuse (and perhaps a little because of it), an enthusiasm for Brutalist buildings beyond the...
View ArticleNikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller's 'Museum of Immortality'
October has arrived and with it comes Mexico City’s annual Design Week. It's accompanied by a new pavilion by architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller of Studio MC, set within the Tamayo Museum’s...
View ArticleSouth Korean experts to help build smart cities along Mumbai-Nagpur expressway
Looking to develop 24 planned townships along the proposed ambitious 706-km Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway, the Maharashtra government has roped in the South Korean government to offer technical proficiency...
View ArticleGandhinagar: Union secretary urges urban local bodies in state to become...
Under the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Amrut Yojana, a workshop for “implementation review” was held in Gandhinagar Saturday, where Rajiv Gauba, secretary, Union Ministry of Urban Development, asked...
View ArticleIndian Railways bid to revive history, plans to set up virtual museum
Indian Railways on Tuesday said that it is collaborating with technology partners for creating a pan-India virtual museum in the form of a digital web enabled platform."Indian Railways is collaborating...
View ArticleBangladeshi mosque architect smashes glass ceiling
As one of the only female architects in a country where women rarely even enter mosques, Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh's new Baitur Rouf Mosque, which has just won a...
View Article2 Bangladeshi projects win Aga Khan architecture award
Two Bangladeshi projects have won this year’s Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The projects are a mosque in Dhaka and a community centre in Gaibandha. Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, chairman of Department...
View ArticleAga Khan Award for Architecture winners announced
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) highlights architectural and urban planning solutions in parts of the world with significant Muslim populations. This year's winners, announced Monday,...
View ArticleWhat's up with all these new 'smart cities' programs?
As Jiro Otsuka of Urban Future Lab told Technical.ly earlier this month, the proliferation of all these accelerators and incubators has at times created some confusion. There’s some distinction between...
View ArticleBIG, Zaha Hadid Architects Among 2016 Aga Khan Award Recipients
Today the recipients of the Agha Khan Award for Architecture were announced in Abu Dhabi. The shared $1 million prize, established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977,honors buildings which serve...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Winners of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was set up by the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, in 1977 to acknowledge and encourage projects that address the needs of Muslims around the...
View ArticleArchitect Marina Tabassum on her Aga Khan Award-winning design for the Bait...
Located on the periphery of Dhaka in Bangladesh, the mosque, which cost$150,000, was funded entirely by private donations, and its flexible design allows the building to act as a school, meeting room...
View ArticleThe steel road that will rip out Bengaluru's heart – and set a dangerous...
Yet, this is what the Congress' last government in a major Indian state has just cleared, in dubious haste, say local media, in Bengaluru: A 6.7-km long elevated road that will rip out the city's...
View ArticleWhat numbers tell us about Open Defecation in India
Eliminating Open Defecation in India by 2nd October 2019 – the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi – is one of the key aims of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan movement launched by Prime Minister...
View ArticleBJP lines up plans to put workers in election mode
Mobilising party workers two years ahead of the next assembly elections proves to be a challenge for the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership in Madhya Pradesh.The state Bharatiya Janata Party executive...
View ArticleAthens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER)
The Athens Institute of Education & Research (ATINER) is a world association of 2,200 academics and researchers from 115 different countries, organized into forty research units and seven research...
View Article'Sustaining old city economy a vital issue'
Architect of iconic buildings in the country and across the globe, Padma Bhushan Hafeez Contractor, claimed that old city revival in any Indian city was important to preserve the character, identity...
View ArticleWorshiping the goddess in South India: In poetry, sculpture, dance and song
Narayana Theertha (1650-1745 AD), a composer wrote the magnum opus "Sri Krishna Leela Tharangini". Each of these songs are called Tharangams and are integral to the Kuchipudi dance repertoire. While...
View ArticleArchitect's Voice – Leo Pereira
This month Vaastuyogam met architect Leo Pereira at his Ahmedabad office. Born and brought up in Ahmedabad the 66 years old architect has been a visiting faculty at CEPT School of Architecture...
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