Design Dalda

A Correa Diptych, story by Design Dalda

Watching People at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Photostory By Design Dalda

‘Highline’ is the name given to the rail line that serviced the meat district of New York – carrying meat out. As the city grew and was sanitized the butchers were moved out and the rail line became redundant, disused and as happens, a dump, drug and crime hub, a backward pointing sore to a forward looking city. – Design Dalda

Design Dalda shares his experience of visit Amazonbooks Store at Seattle.

This slightly oily Chattisgarhi equivalent of the Wada/ Bonda other such found across the country was served in an assemblage of leaves called the dona or Leaf Cup.

Less is More, a photostory by Design Dalda

Design Dalda brings a story from Srinagar, about Chashme Shahi Garden

Chiseled out by hand 500 years ago, Hathi Nahar even today carries water to Ranisar and Padamsar. Story by Design Dalda

Work sometimes can take you to the most unexpected places, I can’t remember how, but it struck me that the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) we were visiting was none other than the I.M.Pei masterpiece

Live videos of the Notre Dame Cathedral burning down kept the world (at least the world that we are part of) riveted, many people shared images of themselves with Notre Dame, remembering fondly their last visit. The area around Notre Dame, is one of the most kitsch tourist destinations in the world, row upon row of trinket shops, with mostly Chinese made models of Eiffel Towers and other such paraphernalia, the place is teeming with tourists, the majority of them in recent years being Chinese.

As I marveled (with mixed feelings – I am not such a sucker for the dramatic, my preferences are more for the under stated) in the sunny New York cold at the shiny surfaces and the form, the 1st thought that came to my mind was Chand Baori, a step-well that I had seen over 20 years back at Abhaneri in Dausa district, Rajasthan. I was a student undergoing professional training in Delhi and had gone on a step-well focused back-packing trip to Rajasthan. – Design Dalda