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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUrban architecture

Topic: Urban architecture

How Jaisalmer architecture cools its buildings. It has the answer to heat in Indian cities

Architect Vinod Gupta found that Jaisalmer’s urban parts were cooler than the city’s average temperature. In an IIC talk, he explained why.

Realising your concepts in real life : Architect Shreya Mahajan

Shreya has successfully completed over 20 projects all over Maharashtra. Her projects include luxury homes, offices, hospitals, spiritual centres, farmhouses, renovations, showrooms etc.

Kabaadiwallas not enough to fix India’s garbage problem, but this national project could be

In ‘Invertonomics’, Goonmeet Singh Chauhan identifies eight problems plaguing India & how they can be inverted to be looked at as economic opportunities.

Laurie Baker, the Gandhi of Indian architecture who believed in local, sustainable building

The renowned British-born architect received multiple awards and honours, but the only one he cared about was his Indian citizenship.

सिर्फ मुंबई ही नहीं, दिल्ली का भी अधिकांश शहरी हिस्सा अग्निकुंड सरीखे हैं

इमारत में आग लगने की हालत में भागने के लिए जगहों की कमी और मॉक फायर ड्रिल न होना अधिकांश शहरों में बेहद आम है. क्या हम सबक सिखने के लिए तैयार हैं?

It is not just Mumbai, most of New Delhi’s urban chic places are deadly firetraps

A fire at a restaurant in Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound Thursday night claimed 14 lives. Lack of fire escape routes in buildings and mock fire drills are common in most Indian cities.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.