Milestone in mileage

What’s good insulation?

Many architects use imported, expensive and environmentally inappropriate material

Zipping ahead!

It may not be the best, but has a big appeal. For those wanting to break the tradition in the small car segment, this Hyundai product offers a …

Sustance over style

Let’s play with mud

Using earth to develop modern, sustainable buildings

Is it a matter of governance?

Auroville’s alternative galaxy

How a township has set high standard for eco-friendly living

North-East

Assam-type solution

Kangra safe corners

The Himalaya is the youngest range of mountains in the world are immensely prone to earthquakes. The entire range falls in seismic zone 5 and 4 - …

‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’

Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel

Green buildings: it’s common sense

Frenzied growth in real estate and changing lifestyle in Indian cities are inciting resource guzzling. Architects have innovative ideas to build …

UTTARKASHI

Houses that hold on

From cradle to grave

GRP followed a life cycle analysis and set up parameters in accordance

Monument to rubble

Cultural Centre>> Economic Crisis ÔÇó Spain

Batty architects

Growing walls

Lean, not fall

Experts are now busy implementing an innovative technique for preventing the leaning tower of Pisa from going overboard

Trends in high places

Traditional timber-and-slate houses vs a neo-concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

Correcting the Leaning Tower's tilt

A Chinese architect claims he can stop the Leaning Tower of Pisa from tilting further, and even bring it back to the original angle of tilt.

Swinging protection

From the blurbs

Homing in on tradition

Traditional models of architecture, especially for mass housing purposes, may yet be resurrected

Foul air

Online

Hammer and sickle faces axe