India

New photographs offer a look inside a modernist theatre in Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh

May 21, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Neelam Theatre, one of three cinemas built as part of Le Corbusier’s construction of Chandigarh, is revealed in these new images by British photographer Edmund Sumner. Built in the early 1950s, Neelam Theatre is located in Sector 17, the commercial district of the modernist city that was famously masterplanned by Le Corbusier in post-independence India. But the building was actually

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Samira Rathod’s Shadow House provides refuge from scorching Indian sun

April 27, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A weathered steel roof slopes over the gravelled courtyard at the centre of this concrete house in western India, which architect Samira Rathod has designed to offer residents plenty of shade from the sun. The Shadow House is located in Alibaug, a coastal town located south of Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai-based architect Samira Rathod wrapped the 5,000-square-foot residence

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