Indian real estate 2024: Developers pin hopes on mid-range segment and policies support

A CNBC-TV18 poll on home-buying has revealed that most developers expect sales volumes of new homes to go up even further in the new year. These results come on the back of 2023's astounding highs in the residential sector. Developers...

Demand for luxury housing in India surges, villas most popular in metro cities: NoBroker

An uptick in demand for luxury housing units was seen in the country in 2023 as per proptech unicorn NoBroker. The increase in disposable income, together with the allure of an enhanced lifestyle has fuelled the demand for luxury housing in India. The...

SOM completes ‘terminal in a garden’ for India’s Kempegowda International Airport

The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed Terminal 2 at India’s Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru has opened to passengers. Inspired by the ‘garden city’ heritage of Bengaluru, the designers describe the airportterminal as “...

Database of Artists Used to Train AI Leaks to the Public

A database of artistic styles allegedly used to train Midjourney’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) program is garnering criticism on social media after it began circulating online at the end of last year. The “Midjourney Style List” spreadsheet...

M+ Museum to host ‘first major retrospective’ of I.M. Pei

The M+ Museum in Hong Kong is to open a new exhibition on the I.M Pei. Named I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture, the exhibition is described by the museum as “the first major retrospective” of the acclaimed architect,” which “...

Location: M+; Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Bijoy Jain, Fondation Cartier review — disassembled architecture reassembled as art, The founder of Studio Mumbai’s attempt to translate his work into a gallery setting is not without problems.

This show in Paris appears to be the zenith of that notion of an architecture disassembled, reappearing in a very different context yet able to communicate those same ideas from only a few thoughtful and very tangible objects and enclosures.

Location: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain; Paris, France

‘Era of gigantism is over’: why Paris chose banlieue for its Olympic Village, Residents and mayors of once-neglected northern outskirts predict lasting change as area is already focus of regeneration.

After months of rows over high ticket-prices for this summer’s Olympics, the focus is now shifting to the social legacy of the Games and their impact in transforming low-income communities of Seine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris.

Hafeez Contractor, Sasaki, Buro Happold join hands for Dharavi redevelopment, Adani hires global team to work on rehabilitating Asia's largest slum after winning the bid in 2022.

The Adani Group has brought leading global experts in city planning including architect Hafeez Contractor, design firm Sasaki, and consultancy firm Buro Happold, among others, on board for the ambitious Dharavi redevelopment project in Mumbai. ...

Bangladesh’s ‘tiny houses’ tackle giant flood challenge

This year, when the annual monsoon floodwaters swelled the country's mighty Brahmaputra river, 40-year-old farmer Abu Sayeed did not have to abandon his home for the first time in his life -- but merely climb up a ladder and wait out the waters.

How Ticino architecture fused tradition with modernism

In 1975 the Swiss architectural theorist Martin Steinmann pulled together the thriving architectural scene south of the Swiss Alps as the “Ticino School” for an exhibition project, making history in the process[fn]Rooted in regional traditions and...

Beyond the Pyramids: Cairo's informal settlements offer useful lessons in urban design.

The ashwa’iyyat represent a significant planning, design, and construction undertaking. Urban planner David Sims describes the typical material language as concrete frame with brick infill—the “classical informal”—and high rises of 15 stories or...

The Building Spree That Reshaped Manhattan’s Skyline? It’s Over., New office buildings flourished over the past 25 years in Manhattan, but a construction drought has begun.​​​​.

The Manhattan office construction boom is over. Just three large office towers — of more than 500,000 square feet — are being built across New York City, with two expected to open in 2024 or 2025 and nothing else projected to go up for years. Normally...

Azerbaijan Escalates Attacks on Armenian Heritage Sites, Satellite monitoring shows several Armenian cemeteries and a 19th-century church damaged by Azerbaijani forces since they invaded Artsakh.

Satellite monitoring by the Cornell University-based research program Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) detected that between October 5 and November 3, bulldozers paved a road through the Yerevan Gates Cemetery in Shushi, also known as Shusha in...

World's oldest company from 578 AD shares secret of survival, It is headquartered in Osaka and was a family-owned construction company for over 1,400 years.

[Kongo Gumi Co., Ltd.] was purportedly founded in 578 A.D which would make it the world's oldest company. It has revealed its secret of survival in the market -- Find a niche and don't let go. Kongo Gumi was the world's oldest continuously operating...

Populous reveals new esports arena design for Saudi Arabia's Qiddiya megaproject

Populous has announced its plans for an esports gaming center in the new Qiddiya City entertainment district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

‘Vandalism’: outcry over plans to replace Notre Dame Cathedral’s chapel windows, Thousands sign petition challenging Macron-backed restoration that would add contemporary design to building.

A plan backed by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to replace stained-glass windows in Notre Dame Cathedral’s side chapels with contemporary creations has been criticised as “vandalism”. A petition has been signed by more than 120,000 people...

Morphosis breaks ground on new U.S. Embassy compound in Saudi Arabia

Morphosis has broken ground on the firm’s new U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia compound project for Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter.  

Ayodhya Railway Junction adopts ‘Treta Yug’ aura ahead of PM Modi’s visit! Lord Ram’s murals, Nagara architecture, and more set to mesmerise pilgrims

Ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ayodhya railway junction is undergoing a facelift with the aura of Treta Yug for pilgrims. The revamped railway station will see refurbished platforms, new signboards, escalators, lifts, and murals of...

Muzharul Islam: A ‘vastukalabid’ for modern Bengal

Muzharul Islam (1923-2012) remains the most eminent and influential architect of Bangladesh, and also unique among all the architectural stalwarts in South Asia. Since the 1950s, through the design of numerous institutions, laboratories, universities,...

Persian Achaemenid ruins among Gaza treasures ‘mostly destroyed’ by Israeli invasion

A new report suggests that a site containing Persian Achaemenid ruins, among other archaeological discoveries dating back to the Iron Age, Roman, and Hellenistic eras, has been seriously harmed by Israeli actions in Gaza. “One of Gaza’s most important...

Schools in England face years of chaos as government stalls on Raac concrete repairs, Latest figures show more than 230 schools affected by crumbling concrete, but many have yet to be told when rebuilding will begin.

Schools forced to evacuate children after finding crumbling concrete could face years in portable buildings and temporary classrooms as the government drags its heels on funding, experts have warned. The number of schools with reinforced...

Delhi: 12 towers of housing society declared dangerous in Mukherjee Nagar, residents told to vacate by Dec 25, DDA roped in the National Council of Cement and Building Material to suggest remedial measures and on its recommendations, structural consultant.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued an eviction notice to the residents of Signature View Apartment in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar, asking them to vacate the society by Monday (December 25) declaring it unfit for human habitation.[fn...

Kanye West announces plans to build 100,000-acre city in the Middle East

Kanye West’s grand ambitions have never been a secret, but his latest endeavor might just take the cake.  The rapper, known for his boundary-pushing projects and unreleased albums, is now setting his sights on an entire self-sustaining city in the...

Carlo Ratti to curate Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025

Italian architect and engineer Carlo Ratti has been appointed director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025.