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Peas in a pod

(Pic Comment) Lotus Temple vs. Sydney Opera House: Opera originally hyperbolic, went spherical due to budget cuts. Temple used CADE systems, finished with laser-cut marble.
manish on Friday, September 11, 2009 › Tweet this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link

East Village Modernist

(NYT) Namita Luthra and Anil Shrivastava spent $300K turning an empty E. Village shell into a modernist temple. Fold-out panels reveal splashes of rich Indian hues like saffron, persimmon orange and peacock blue.
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manish on Thursday, February 26, 2009 › Tweet this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link

Importing Le Corbusier’s successors

(ToI) NY architect megacorp Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and many other foreign architects, are increasingly being hired to redesign India. [via]
Previously: architecture
manish on Sunday, June 15, 2008 › Tweet this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link