Niralee Shah
Niralee Shah is a student of architecture who is exploring her way out to architecture and architectural journalism. A full-time learner, part-time mandala maker, and writer.
The Cube
‘The Cube’ - an innovative project by Dutch firm Orange architects. It is a differently standing 50m tall luxurious residential tower in the hills of Beirut, Lebanon. Using the optimal site’s potential with client’s satisfaction and local building codes with the surrounding context of...
Vastu Direction for Home
Orientation of a building is important to avoid wasting energy and to create a stronger house, which could be comfortable for living at an equivalent time and provides positive energy, state, prosperity, and wealth to the occupants. A living place and its direction correlate...
Glassell School Of Art
Glassell School of Art is an L-shaped structure that sits on an underground parking garage. It also has a green roof that rises gently from the central plaza and is open to the public. The roof entices visitors to explore the building from top...
Mill Owner’s Association: First Modernist Building of Ahmedabad
The Mill Owner’s Association Building, also known as the Ahmedabad Textile Mill Owners Association House (ATMA House), is Ahmedabad's first modernist building. It is the headquarters of the Textile Mill Owners' Association and is located on the western banks of the Sabarmati River. It...
Turning Torso – Wonder With The Twist
Turning Torso is a beautiful residential skyscraper in Sweden and the tallest building in Scandinavia. It is regarded as the first twisted skyscraper in the world.However, it is a Neo-futurist skyscraper. Which was constructed in 6 years from 1999 to 2005. 1999-2001 designing and...
Suzlon One Earth Corporate Headquarters
The Suzlon One Earth Corporate Headquarters campus spread over ten acres of land in Hadapsar, Pune, India. However, the place conceived with a business and practical need to bring all trade verticals and corporate services under 1 roof. That although connected to each other...
Diebedo Francis Kere- First African to win Pritzker Architecture prize
The 2022 laureate of Architecture's highest honor, the Pritzker Architecture Prize is Diebedo Francis Kere, known as Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso-born architect, educator, social activist, also, the receiver of the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and designer of the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion.
The work...
Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel
Louvre Abu Dhabi becomes the final purpose of an urban promenade, a garden on the coast, a cool haven, a shelter of light throughout the day and evening. Its aesthetic is consistent with its role as a sanctuary for the most precious works of...
Dravida Style Temple/ South Indian Style Temple
Dravida style is jati viman. The example of Dravida Style Temple Architecture is Southern-style has a pyramid-shaped building consisting of progressively shorter stories of small pavilions, a slim throat, and a dome on the top called a shikhara. It has cube or prism-shaped Garbhgriha...
Vesara style temple /Central Indian style temple
Vesara style temple architecture in the Deccan and central parts. Hybrid of two. In plan, it resembles Dravida style whereas in the shape of its details it resembles Nagara style. Many historians agree that the Vesara style originated in what is today Karnataka. These...
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