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Vision Pakistan, a project by DB Studios recently recognized with the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Set within Islamabad, Pakistan, the project offers a ‘second chance’ to disadvantaged males who have fallen into aggression, depression, drug use and/or crime.
As part of Brutalist India series Bhawna Dandona writes about Shri Ram Centre, New Delhi, consructed in 1968, sponsored by the Shri Ram family, designed by Shiv Nath Prasad, along with guidance from Ebrahim Alkazi and the structural expertise of Mahendra Raj.
Altrim Publishers announces the release of NUDES, a compelling new monograph by architect Nuru Karim, founder of Nudes, a Mumbai-based interdisciplinary design studio at the forefront of computational and sustainable architecture.
The Council of Architecture announced a design competition in 2022 for a Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, drawing nearly 1,500 teams. Chennai-based firm, architectureRED, won with their proposal, and yet four years later, nothing has been built. ArchitectureLive! team goes into this rabbit hole to understand the reality of.
Reshma Esther Thomas examines how Hyderabad’s flyover pillars, painted with Cheriyal-style murals under the GHMC’s ‘City Art Scape’ initiative, reveal the paradox of managed public space. What appears to be beautification is actually cultural assertion in the wake of the 2014 bifurcation, bureaucratising a surface that once belonged to those without institutional power.
As part of our editorial: What makes a space public?, V.V. Kusum Priya argues that Section 39A of Goa’s 2024 Town and Country Planning Act this isn’t just a legal issue, and that it’s the erosion of an unrecognised but collectively sustained commons, and a question of what “public” really means and who benefits from the legislations surrounding this.
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