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Rain garden to rooftop farm: Inside the Delhi house of man who built AIIMS

India, April 27 -- What happens when an architect marries a landscape architect? They get an urban jungle on their rooftop and a rain garden with a water harvesting recharge pit in the front yard abso... Read More


The house of the man who built AIIMS

India, April 27 -- What happens when an architect marries a landscape architect? They get an urban jungle on their rooftop and a rain garden with a water harvesting recharge pit in the front yard abso... Read More


Chandigarh-inspired Delhi modernism, 'Garden City' concepts in Hauz Khas's single-storey Casa Pia bungalow

India, April 20 -- The rarest site in a city of over 22 million people is a single-storey, two-bedroom bungalow. Casa Pia is tucked away in south Delhi's Hauz Khas area, sitting amidst prime real esta... Read More


The house Sir Sobha Singh built after Rashtrapati Bhavan

India, April 13 -- Few figures are as deeply imprinted into the built fabric of Delhi as Sir Sobha Singh, fondly remembered as "aadhi Dilli ka maalik". His rise from a sub-contractor to one of the pri... Read More


Inside a professor's 1970s house in north Delhi's university precinct

India, April 6 -- In 1911, with the transfer of the imperial capital from Calcutta to Delhi, the northern Ridge near Civil Lines was drawn into the military geography of the new administration. Rural ... Read More


The Delhi house extinction archive: A record of all that we surrendered

India, March 23 -- An art project made me think about the extinction of modernism in the Delhi house. That is the thing with art - it returns you to your present and makes you wonder how you got here.... Read More


Sujan Singh Park to Daryaganj: Delhi's Deco dreams

India, March 15 -- When did an international style like Art Deco become part of Delhi's everyday visual landscape? Delhi began seeing buildings in the Art Deco style in the early 1940s, when Sir Sobh... Read More


Delhi's Houses: The Jains of Daryaganj

India, March 9 -- Daryaganj was an early modern urban threshold of Delhi. The neighbourhood sits at the southern edge of Shahjahanabad. Here the Mughal capital begins to dissolve. Beyond it emerges th... Read More


Delhi's Houses:The Jains of Daryaganj

India, March 9 -- Daryaganj was an early modern urban threshold of Delhi. The neighbourhood sits at the southern edge of Shahjahanabad. Here the Mughal capital begins to dissolve. Beyond it emerges th... Read More


The anatomy of a Delhi village: How a city's history is not just about master plans and monuments

India, Feb. 16 -- What kind of person feels compelled to archive a modern city as it disappears? Perhaps one whose earliest understanding of space was shaped not by the city itself, but by the village... Read More