Bar Kokhba–Era Complex Excavated Near Sea of Galilee

The most extensive hiding complex discovered to date in the Galilee has been excavated in an archaeological excavation carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at the site of Huqoq (Hukkok) – an ancient Jewish village 12.5 km...

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels imagines how houses will look like on the Moon

At the India Today Conclave 2024, celebrated Danish architect Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels, founder of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), shared his groundbreaking collaboration with NASA on Project Olympus, aiming to establish the first permanent human settlement...

Experiment captures why pottery forms are culturally distinct

Potters of different cultural backgrounds learn new types differently, producing cultural differences even in the absence of differential cultural evolution. The Kobe University-led research has implications for how we evaluate the difference of...

2024 North American Copper in Architecture Awards

Presented by the Copper Development Association (CDA), the NACIA awards celebrate projects across the United States and Canada that feature architectural copper and copper alloys, including roof systems, façades, and wall systems, as well as custom-...

BAPS, First Hindu Mandir In Abu Dhabi: From Cost To Architecture - Know All About The Temple

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi, the first traditional Hindu stone temple in the UAE on February 14. He will pay a two-day visit to the...

Is Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?, Ted-Ed lecture by Vikramāditya Prakāsh, directed by Jeff Le Bars, Jet Propulsion.

Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.

Screening of ‘And the alley she whitewashed in light blue’ – a film by Ar. Nili Portugali.

CTES College of Architecture is happy to invite you for a film screening of ‘And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue’, an exquisite documentary by architect/ filmaker Nili Portugali where she takes us into an intimate journey that unfolds to a...

Location: CTES College of Architecture; Mumbai, India

PM chokes up at Maharashtra event after handing over homes to the poor

Prime Minister Narendra Modi choked up and fought back tears as he got emotional while speaking about houses built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) scheme in Maharashtra which were to be handed over to underprivileged beneficiaries like...

Redefining the Art of Structural Design, The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures annual conference 2024.

The main thematic focus of IASS 2024 will be the historic and ongoing intersection of technology with informed expression in structural design. The theme of the symposium will be Redefining the Art of Structural Design, and will acknowledge the...

Location: ETH Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland

The Ayodhya Ram temple: 4 mandirs at each corner, 5 mandaps and emphasis on green cover

With weeks to go for the inauguration of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir on January 22, the Pran Pratishtha or consecration ceremony of the Ram Lalla idol will be preceded by a week-long ritual beginning January 16.  

International Design Competition for the Changdong Station Transit Complex Center

The Changdong-Sanggye area, situated in the northeastern metropolitan center of Seoul, Korea has been designated as an 'urban regeneration area' with the aim of creating an economic and cultural hub suitable for "2030 Seoul Plan". The goal of this...

Decoding Density

Missing Middle and Mixing Middle housing forms, the subjects of Urbanarium’s previous ideas competitions, are becoming mainstream policies. Urbanarium’s next competition again explores missing middle housing, this time at the high end of that density...

Autonomous excavator constructs a 6-meter-high dry-stone wall

ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-​high and sixty-​five-metre-long dry-​stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park.[fn]The team of...

Drawing[s] From Raje: Lecture accompanying the exhibition at Bangalore International Centre by Shubhra Raje and a conversation with Soumitro Ghosh

The architecture of Late Anant Raje (1929-2009) has been described as exhibiting integrity between purpose and expression, building and landscape, part and whole, and the ultimate quality of all good architecture through time – a sense of repose. If the...

The interior and exterior of Lucknow's buildings over time: a lecture by Prof. Dr. Joachim K. Bautze, Organised by the Centre for Historic Houses of India, OP Jindal Global University.

As Lucknow only became the capital of the kingdom of Oudh in 1775, most of the monuments were built towards the end of the 18th century and then, with increasing European influence, in the first half of the 19th century. Lucknow experienced a turning...

Location: OP Jindal Global University; Sonipat, India

Archaeologists discover world's oldest wooden structure

Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by a team from the University of Liverpool and Aberystwyth University.[fn]The research, published in the...

Battery-free robots use origami to change shape in mid-air

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent. When these “microfliers” are dropped from a drone, they use a...

Malaysian rock art found to depict elite-Indigenous conflict

A team of researchers led by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research in collaboration with The Sarawak Museum Department have become the first to date drawings of Gua Sireh Cave in Sarawak, uncovering a sad story of conflict in the process...

Introducing: A Wes Anderson-ish Singapore Vol.2

Inspired by the cinematography of Wes Anderson (director of “Asteroid City” & “The Grand Budapest Hotel”), join us as we wrap up our epic 3-year architectural adventure documenting the built environment of the place we call home, in this latest...

How to move communities away from flooding risks with minimal harm, An analysis of planned relocations around the world reveals a blueprint for positive outcomes.

As sea levels rise and flooding becomes more frequent, many countries are considering a controversial strategy: relocation of communities. A Stanford analysis of planned relocations around the world, published July 27 in Nature Climate...

New NEOM documentary features Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf, and other architects speaking highly of The Line megacity project

A new look behind the process and select architects involved in Saudi Arabia’s controversial The Line megacity for NEOM has been released.

God's Own Language - with Dr Karl Kinsella, A live stream about the earliest known architectural drawings..

Kinsella, Karl. God’s own language: Architectural drawing in the twelfth century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023.  The architectural drawing might seem to be a quintessentially modern form, and indeed many histories of the genre begin...

Portion of Goa’s iconic Kala Academy collapses, Opp alleges corruption, However, Minister for Arts and Culture Govind Gaude said that the collapsed portion was not undergoing repairs or strengthening work.

A large portion of the structure of an open-air auditorium at the Kala Academy in Panaji collapsed on Monday. According to officials, no one was injured. The government has ordered a probe into the incident, and the Opposition has renewed allegations of...

Freedom Square: unbridled expression of the values of a city

Calicut, a quintessential port with glorious cultural inheritance and widely known for its hospitality has a treasure trove of unrevealed historical tales yet to be shared to the world. The city known for its social life, boasts of many lively active...