The demolition of the Hall of Nations has created an empty pocket within Delhi’s heart and also for the people of the city. Delhi now lacks urban spaces which are people friendly and social with growing urbanization, the land is getting more saturated with fewer places to emphasize on a free and green quality of life.
The site Being covered densely with trees, it was very important to mark the areas with dense trees. The green Hatch helps to distinguish these areas, green being densely covered with trees, areas without large trees. – Yamini Deshmukh and Asha Deshmukh
For a long time now, professional opinion regarding the structure and density of Delhi has revolved around the disbalanced density between the city core and the periphery. With mounting pressures on land as a resource, urban sprawl stretching the limits of the city and consequent problems with urban transportation and environmental degradation the need to densify existing precincts of the city becomes evident.
There have been widespread protests against the government’s decision to cut nearly 16500 trees for the redevelopment project. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs came up with a press release that promised replanting of trees in 1:10 ratio. Which means for every single tree that would be cut, there would be ten new saplings planted. Ankon Mitra, who is a landscape designer, popular for his “Oritecture” has written to the PMO and Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
It’s the Time of the Year again, to come together and know more about New Version of ARCHICAD. This year our Key Note Speaker – Ar. Ajay Tonpe, Founder (Beyond Design), would be sharing his Experience of Using ARCHICAD in Corporate Interior Projects . Ar. Katalin Borszeki, BIM Specialist (GRAPHISOFT HQ) who would be talking about New Features of ARCHICAD 22.
A set of 14 postcards known as Historic Houses packaged in a Rexine Envelope. They are prints of pen and ink artwork based on the colonial architecture of Kolkata city. Also, there is a little information about the buildings themselves on the back of each card.
The fields of design and architecture in particular ask of their practitioners an ability to create solutions to tasks that are aesthetic i.e. pleasing, stimulating and invigorating to the mind while being logical, efficient, feasible and in execution economical of financial and material resources.
Samir Shukla writes an open letter to Sudhir Vohra.
The Judgment of the Delhi High Court in CWP 934 of 2012 (Sudhir Vohra Ver the Ministry of Corporate Affairs ) is the result of the classic neglect of the Council of Architecture ( COA)’s towards PROFESSIONAL matters.
We are reaching out to the Council of Architecture India, to urge them to make architectural internships more relevant and meaningful for students and the profession.
Samir Shukla, visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad writes an Open Letter to the Council of Architecture, India
Padmashri Balkrishna V Doshi, who was named the Pritzker Laurette 2018 makes it to the list of 50 greatest leaders of 2018 – Announced by Fortune Magazine
The brief was to design a house for an Industrialist based in Karnal with traditional joint family setup of nine members in the family.
The Architecture institutes functioning across the country are held culprit for the deterioration of quality of current generation of Architects entering the profession, with this conclusion, the focus shifts to the regulation of Architecture institutes.
The other idea was to create multiple places within the building, which students and teachers could multiuse. On the other side of the highway is Tapti River, one could see, as observer goes above the Ground floor of the building.
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