Author Archives: Rahul Mehrotra

The Indian city kinetic: consuming, reinterpreting and recycling spaces

By Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera 2 May 2018 Essays

Re-envisaging the city as a fluid symbiosis of the formal and informal could spark a more synergetic urbanism

Burning intensity: an overwhelming collective energy fills the empty plain of the Nevada desert

2 May 2018 By John Marx

The temporary city of Burning Man resonates with a unique communal vibrancy

Makkah’s popularity: a tale of two cities

3 May 2018 By Hessa AlBader, Hussam Dakkak and Basmah Kaki

In its quest to cater for pilgrims, Makkah has transformed from modest…

Transport hub in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Hall McKnight

19 June 2019 By Gary A Boyd

As part of an ambitious masterplan for Colin, Belfast, Hall McKnight’s transport hub…

Driving the social divide: planning in Belfast reinforces the city’s segregation

20 June 2019 By Mark Hackett

Proving roads and urban planning can be as divisive as walls: twenty…

Laurie Baker (1917-2007)

25 November 2019 By Himanshu Burte

After graduating from Birmingham School of Architecture, Baker made India his home…

Revisit: Louis Kahn’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

26 November 2019 By Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

The Capitol Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, fuses imposing grandeur with disarming simplicity,…

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