How big can you imagine an open air gallery to be? Well, here you are… 13, 785 sq. km [5130 sq. miles] of painted walls, havelis, palaces and forts in the vast expanse of the desert of Rajasthan in India. Town after town, street after street, home after home has been painted with frescoes depicting [...]
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Painted towns of Shekhawati: Colors in sand
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Historic Preservation, Peoples' Places, tagged Architecture, Art, Cities, Culture, Entertainment, Frescoes, Heritage Hotels, Historic Preservation, History, India, Interiors, Life, Museums, Painter, Paintings, People, Photography, Places, Preservation, Rajasthan, Reuse, Time, Towns, Travel, Videos on February 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Green and Intelligent: the roads do converge
Posted in Architecture, Green Architecture, News Ink, tagged Architecture, Awards, Business, Cities, Conservation, Culture, Dubai, Energy, Gensler, Green, Intelligent, International, news, People, Places, Preservation, Technology, Thoughts, Time, United Kingdom, United Kingdon on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
United Kingdom- Gensler’s design for Herman Miller’s international headquarters, also called Village Green, has been short listed for Corenet’s 2008 Sustainability award and is the first building in the UK to receive both BREEAM (excellent rating) and LEED (gold) accreditation. The 20,000-square foot facility is located in Chippenham, England. Several notable details that make Village [...]
Nanocity: Looking at the future
Posted in Architecture, Green Architecture, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged Architect, Architecture, Building, Bussiness, Chandigarh, Cities, Culture, Energy, Environment, Future, Green Architecture, Idea, Life, news, Places, Politics, Sustainable, Technology, Thoughts, Time on February 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Nanocity- the idea of a sustainable city ‘with world class infrastructure and to create an ecosystem for innovation leading to economy, ecology and social cohesion’ is taking place near another architecture paradise- Chandigarh, which was commissioned by first prime minister of independent India to reflect new nation’s modern and progressive outlook. Nehru famously proclaimed Chandigarh [...]
Worst Building is on the Wall of Shame
Posted in Architecture, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged Architecture, Building, Bussiness, Cities, Culture, Demolition, History, korea, Life, news, People, Places, ryugyong, ryugyong hotel, Skyscraper, Thoughts, Travel on February 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This week while China was in the limelight with its ‘blue box beating with a green heart’- the Water Cube ‘National Aquatics Centre in Beijing’, Korea’s one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel got a severe blow in the architecture world. It was declared the ‘worst building ever’. Esquire says ‘Picture doesn’t lie. ‘the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, [...]
Bridges are not fences
Posted in Architecture, Peoples' Places, tagged Achitect, Architecture, Bridges, Culture, Life, People, Places, Thoughts, Travel on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bridges are spaces. Bridges are places, where people meet other people, enjoy their surroundings, and experience being part of a community. Though a mode of transit, bridges can be magnets for public activity and fun. Bridges not only connect land to land, but also have an impact on adjacent parks, industries and residential communities, and [...]
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