Jaipur: ‘Pink City’ Jaipur on Saturday made an official entry in the list of the UNESCO World Heritage sites and leaders across the political spectrum welcomed the signal honour to the historical city.
Hyderabad: Well known heritage architect Yeshwant Ramamurthy said in an open letter to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao that with conservation technologies and adaptive re-use, Errum Manzil can be revitalised and included in the master plan for a new Assembly complex.
Amid allegations of irregularities in MGNREGS, there has been a mismatch of data officially available and those uploaded on websites about its implementation in Bhadrak, a report said.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s thrust for reviving home sales did little to enthuse investors on the Street. The Nifty Realty index turned out to be the biggest loser, falling as much as 7% in the last two trading sessions
It all began when architect Prasanna Desai shifted to Pune from New Delhi in the late 1990s. He felt that many architects, who visited the city, had experiences to share. “Learning in architecture is a continuous process.
Architecture is one of the most celebrated professions in the construction industry. Most likely because the field provides one of man’s basic needs, which is shelter. In many countries, architecture is paid homage to by setting month-long celebrations.
Two days after 15 persons were killed when a compound wall collapsed at a construction site in Kondhwa, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday suspended the licence of two construction companies, architects and a structural consultant.
With college degrees getting highly specialised, students have become selective. They need to be aware of the fine differences between any two subjects of the same discipline. Many students often get confused when it comes to choosing between a Bachelor’s in Architecture and a Bachelor’s in Urban Design.
The Chennai droughts have made not just national but international news. Most residents of the Tamil Nadu capital, whether young or old, rich or poor have been brought to the mercy of a couple hours’ supply of tap water or purchased water tanks.
NATA admit card July 2019: The Council of Architecture (CoA) has released the admit card for the second National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) today on its official website, nata.in. The examination is scheduled to be conducted on July 7 (Sunday), 2019.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Around 10,000 flood-affected people have benefited from shelter hubs set up with UNDP support in Kerala in the past eight months. These hubs were established in Wayanad, Pathanamthitta and Idukki districts
Even if you earn Rs 50,000 a month, you cannot own a home in Delhi NCR. DNA analysed the middle-income range of officially affordable categories and found housing prices are beyond affordable for most of the working population.
Heritage lovers in Hyderabad are up in arms against the Telangana government’s plans to demolish the 150-year Errum Manzil palace in the heart of the city for the construction of a new legislative assembly building complex, for which the foundation was laid on June 27.
Monuments built by the Mughals and the Lodhis from the 13th to the 16th century extensively follow a Persian style of architecture with plasterwork decorations.
The evocatively titled Lovely Villa is a documentary about the links between architecture and emotion, memories of childhood and adolescence – and two fathers.
The Vitra Design Museum in Germany is hosting the first ever retrospective of Balakrishna Doshi’s work to be held outside Asia. It is curated by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, the granddaughter of Doshi. The colossal exhibition offers insight on how Doshi’s work has influenced a new outlook on architectural design.
Two questions arose at the very beginning. First, who was to build the new city – the Public Works Department (PWD), a private firm in India, or a distinguished architect from abroad? The decision was in favour of an architect from overseas.
In the mid-1980s in India, there were two gods in architecture. When either of them landed in Bangalore, there would be a buzz in the architecture fraternity — “God has arrived”. Students and young practitioners would flock to hear them.
The Chand Minar or the Tower of the Moon is a medieval tower in Daulatabad. The tower is located in the state of Maharashtra within the Daulatabad-Deogiri fort complex. It was erected in 1445 C.E by King Ala-ud-din Bahmani to commemorate his capture of the fort.
Vernacular Architecture is the use of local materials and traditional techniques for constructing low rise homes. As a principle, this form of architecture involves not using expensive and factory-made material but using old traditional ways of construction and material as much as possible
A NASA-funded a programme in the US has produced a series of informational videos about famous archaeological sites and institutions in India. The programme has lesson plans in Hindi aimed at teaching the language internationally in context with science and technology.
Everywhere in the country, the design of the homes was built according to the climate of that region. Old houses, particularly in hot regions of India like Rajasthan’s havelis or the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu, would have a central courtyard or aangan and the rooms would be built around it.
It was my Eureka moment as I realised that the architect is a new age agent of Pangaea. He is travelling across the world, getting educated in great academies of the nations he is not born in. He learns his craft from distant lands with different climate, flora and fauna and then moves around the globe to practice his trade.
The studio Urban Housing began with a case study that helped the students understand the social aspects of urban housing. The initial exercises focused on aspects such as understanding relationship between anthropometrics and space, the relationship between various house activities, the need for inside-outside relationships for a house, and making compact-efficient layouts.
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