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From Villa Anantya to GOMA HQ: Nayan Shah’s Context-Driven Design

In an industry that often celebrates the loud and the monumental, Nayan Shah, founder of the Mumbai-based studio Palindrome Spaces, prefers a different frequency. Since establishing the firm in 2018, Shah has been quietly refining a design language where light, proportion, and memory take center stage, recalibrating the rhythms of daily life without ever “shouting […]

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Walking the Talk: Gita Balakrishnan and the Architecture of Empathy

In an era when design is often equated with visual spectacle, Gita Balakrishnan stands out for turning architecture into an instrument of empathy and social change. Trained at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and later at Carnegie Mellon University, she began her career with hands-on community work in Bangalore’s slums through AVAS,

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Steel Giants of Iceland: Turning Power Lines into Walking Monuments

The Land of Giants reimagines Iceland’s high-voltage pylons as 150-foot-tall (45-meter) human-like steel figures, turning functional infrastructure into monumental sculptures. Proposed by Choi+Shine Architects for Landsnet, Iceland’s power transmission company, the concept won recognition in a 2008 international competition.​ Project Origins Choi+Shine, led by Jin Choi and Thomas Shine, entered the 2008 Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon

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Pritzker Prize Delays 2026 Announcement Amid Epstein Files Controversy

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, often called architecture’s Nobel, has postponed its 2026 laureate announcement following revelations from Jeffrey Epstein’s documents linking foundation leader Tom Pritzker to the financier. Typically revealed in early March, the delay comes after U.S. Department of Justice files released on January 30 named Pritzker over a thousand times in Epstein’s emails.

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Arcause Spotlight at Municipalika 2026: Reimagining Cities Through Responsible Design

In a rapidly urbanising India, where cities are both the engines of growth and sites of stark inequity, Arcause Spotlight at Municipalika 2026 aims to rethink what truly makes a city safe, inclusive, and sustainable. Scheduled for February 26, 2026, the initiative is led by Gita Balakrishnan, Founder of Ethos and the Ethos Foundation, recognised for her pioneering work at the intersection

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Who Was Edwin Lutyens, Architect Whose Statue Removed From Rashtrapati Bhavan?

President Droupadi Murmu unveiled a bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari at Rashtrapati Bhavan, replacing the statue of British architect Edwin Lutyens. According to government sources, this move is part of efforts to shed colonial symbols and honor Indian leaders. The bust was placed at the Grand Open Staircase near Ashok Mandap, opposite Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. It

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5 Modernist Churches of Italy You Must Know

Between 1962 and 1965, the Second Vatican Council ushered in liturgical reforms emphasizing participation and clarity, freeing Italian architects from rigid typologies to create bold, modernist sacred spaces. Postwar Italy’s economic boom, urban sprawl, and secular shift met Vatican II’s call for renewal, birthing experimental churches that anchored new communities. Marta Minuzzo’s “Templi Moderni. Costruire

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The Impact of Parametric Architecture on Modern Urban Landscapes

Paramentric Design Architecture Influences Somehow, parametric design architecture is understood to bring a revolutionary change in terms of perception from the constructionthat we were building. Forming a part of the wider discipline of computational architecture, it proposes a next generation of ingenious and intricate structures generated with the aid of high end computation related to

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Joaquim Moreno Named Chief Curator for 8th Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Portuguese architect and curator Joaquim Moreno has been appointed chief curator of the 8th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, scheduled for late 2027. The announcement highlights Moreno’s interdisciplinary practice, blending architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art to address pressing global challenges. Curatorial Vision Moreno’s program, titled Medium, explores architecture’s role as a mediator in complex socio-political and environmental contexts.

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