18. Badi Baoli In Qutb Shahi Heritage Park: Conservation and Landscape...
‘Badi Baoli’ or large step-well is a functional step well collecting rain water from a large catchment area as well as linked to a network of aqueducts running throughout the site. First built in the...
View Article12. Lime Mortar Centre In Qutb Shahi Heritage Park: Conservation and...
Prior to the invention of cement all buildings were built either in lime or mud mortar. Lime stone is the main source of the building lime. Lime has been used as the principal binder for mortars and...
View ArticleRaj, Mahendra."Hall of States, New Delhi."Structural Engineering...
The multi-purpose hall was built for the Trade Fair Authority of India at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The hall was completed in 1982. It is used for exhibition purposes but was also used for boxing and...
View ArticleRab, Samia."SANDSTONE'S UNIFYING HUE: THE WORLD BANK DELHI REGIONAL MISSION...
This paper critically analyzes the World Bank's Regional Mission Headquarters building in New Delhi, completed in 1993 and designed by an internationally recognized Indian architect, Raj Rewal, This...
View Article13. Visitor Analysis In Qutb Shahi Heritage Park: Conservation and Landscape...
To develop required facilities and an appropriate landscape design for the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, studies were conducted to understand visitor activities and movement patterns.
View ArticleGAYER, LAURENT."Delhi's Noor Masjid: Tales of a Martyred Mosque."Economic and...
The recent demolition of the Noor Masjid in Jangpura by the Delhi Development Authority was actually an attempt by the local residents welfare association at sanitising the area by excluding the...
View ArticleBOWE, PATRICK."LAL BAGH — THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF BANGALORE AND ITS...
Although Lai Bagh dates from 1760, during the late Mughal Empire period, it reached its apogee under two Kew-trained superintendents, John Cameron from c. 1873 to 1908 and Gustav Herman Krumbiegel from...
View ArticleBOWE, PATRICK."A PUBLIC GARDEN IN INDIA WITH ENGLISH INFLUENCE: RAM NIWAS,...
The nineteenth-century public park movement reached India in 1868 when the Maharaja of Jaipur decided to lay out the public garden known as Ram Niwas. He employed an amateur English designer, Frederick...
View ArticleSarkar, Sreela."Remaking the ‘World-Class City’: The Commonwealth Games as a...
This article examines the Delhi Commonwealth Games as a media event that facilitated the creation of a divided ‘global city’ at a time when India is celebrated as a rising economic power. The remaking...
View ArticleTappin, Stuart."The Early Use of Reinforced Concrete in India."Construction...
For many people who work with or study India's built environment, the city of Chandigarh dating from the mid-1950s is often considered to be the starting point for the use of reinforced concrete in...
View ArticleChristensen, Peter."Expertise and the Economies of Knowledge of Architectural...
The editorial introduction to this special volume presents the theme of this collection of articles: ‘expertise’ in the architecture of the Islamic world since 1800. Taken together, these articles...
View ArticleMehaffy, Michael W.."From Pattern Languages To Generative Codes: A Report On...
Indian citizens, like American citizens, are all well aware– perhaps sometimes painfully aware – that their country is growing at a remarkably rapid rate today. This growth is economic, and of course...
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