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Architecture & Design | 10 May 2013

Escher for Real

“If the library is a model of the universe, we should try to turn it into a universe on a human [modern]. With a word .. a nice library, where you want to go “_ Umberto Eco In earlier years, it was a church or palace that marked the centre point of a town. But [...]

Architecture & Design &Books | 07 Mar 2013

Architect of Photography

A Stunning Survey Of Pics By Eero Saarinen’s In-House Photographer Hired as a designer, Balthazar Korab captured some of the most important monuments to Modernism. In 1954, a young Hungarian went to work with Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As his then colleague, Cesar Pelli, describes him: “[He] was a small sensation: he had [...]

Architecture & Design | 08 Oct 2012

Why Design ?

At Herman Miller design is the language they use to ask questions and seek answers to the problems their customers face. The design process is a journey into the unknown—or as George Nelson once quipped, “I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were.” Before we decide [...]

Architecture & Design | 30 Mar 2012

Less Is More

We celebrated the 126th birth anniversary of Mies van der Rohe on 28th March- The German-born American architect and educator convinced us all with his glass-and-steel buildings that “Less is more“. Mies helped defined modern architecture and is known as one of the 20th century’s greatest architects. The Google doodle also honored Mies

Architecture & Design | 09 Feb 2012

The Value of an Architecture

What is the value of architecture? It can be measured, culturally, humanely and historically, in the gulf between these two places. To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. To commute via the bowels of Penn Station, just a few blocks away, is a [...]

Architecture & Design | 12 Dec 2011

Apple of Big Apple

Apple recently opened its one of kind Retail store in New York City, in a grand space above the Great Hall at iconic Grand Central Terminal. It occupies 23000 Square Foot the east balcony, a portion of the north balcony, and attached smaller spaces, all adjacent to the station’s main concourse. It’s a great setting [...]

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