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Bhubhaneshwar, Konark, and Puri form a neat triangle in a travel itinerary (much like Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik but smaller) and can easily be visited in a day. But only if you manage your time well [...]
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Laurie Baker, the British-born architect settled in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala died today at age 90. Known primarily for his work in designing low-cost housing by using local materials, he was a source of inspiration to all those architects who wished to return to their roots [image source].
Laurie understood that the real architecture of India lay in [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, Design, India | 1 Comment »
“The Sri Mayapur Vedic Temple and Planetarium will be built in Mayapur in the province of West Bengal, India, and is expected to reach the height equivalent of 35 stories and making it only a smidgeon shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza” [source].
What makes this temple project interesting is that it will be built [...]
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You are well aware of my disdain for vaastu shastra and its spurious usage to justify superstitious beliefs. While in architecture school, I ’studied’ vaastu for a while and found that it can be useful only in a limited scope and only when applied with full knowledge of the reasons for its use. But in [...]
Patrix | Art and Architecture, India, Rants, Society Culture | 3 Comments »
Football is not just 22 guys running crazily after a ball (my dad’s definition of football;he suggested giving them more balls to play with) but sometimes the occassion of the World Cup gives FIFA an opportunity to make a contribution to the art world. Artists from six FIFA confederations have submitted 15 works of art [...]
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With changing technology, libraries are fast evolving into places other than musty-smelling dens of worn out books. They can be pretty snazzy with the latest gadgetry designed by top architects and attracting hordes of people for reasons apart from reading books. And that is a good thing.
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Treetop houses that purify the soil that they stand on? Now, that is beyond sustainable.
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Santiago Calatrava is rumored to be constructing a corkscrew-style twisting skyscraper in Chicago downtown. At 115 stories, it can easily be the tallest building in the U.S. But as Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne pointed out recently, it would be the only kind designed for residences and not offices. Primarily all high rises [...]
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Malls have succeeded in gathering a wide variety of people in spite of the blatant commercial lure. Of course, not everyone in a mall is going to walk out with a significant purchase. If you remember the earlier days of Bombay’s first mall, Crossroads; the majority of visitors came to gaze at the new public [...]
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Josh Rubin at Cool Hunting points us to Paris based designers Jean-Marie Massaud and Daniel Pouzet of Studio Massaud. Designers who have jumped in a bigger than “2001 Space Odyssey cinematic jump” from luxury products to stadium design. The designers recently won a competition for a stadium designed to look like a Mexican volcano. The [...]
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Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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