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Mumbai: Kinetic City

Event Date(s)
Thursday April 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

Event Location
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Paul Desmarais Theatre

Event Details
The Canadian Centre for Architecture will be hosting a lecture by Rahul Mehrotra entitled “Mumbai: Kinetic City” on Thursday April 9, 2009 as one of the last Shastri 40th anniversary celebration events. Dr. Rahul Mehrotra is principal of the firm RMA architects of Mumbai, India and an Associate Professor at the school of architecture and planning at MIT, USA.

Rahul Mehrotra

Urban renewal gets more funds

17 Feb 2009, 0350 hrs IST, TNN With rapid urbanisation going hand in hand with crumbling infrastructure in towns and cities, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee raised the allocation for the government’s flagship programme — Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission — to Rs 11,842 crore from Rs 10,447.98 crore in 2008-09. The government has already sanctioned 386 [...]

Diane Solomon Kempler: Divine Chaos: A Journey into India

Exhibition Dates: March 19 – April 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, April 16, 7 pm

New work by Emory Visual Arts faculty Diane Kempler

The 11th International Conference on Non-conventional Materials and Technologies (NOCMAT 2009)

is announcing a call for papers with the theme: Materials for sustainable and affordable construction. The conference will take place September 6th – 9th 2009 at the University of Bath, Bath, UK. For more information visit the conference website at http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/nocmat2009/.

All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE ) 2009

for admission to Engineering and Architecture (including Planning) programmes at the undergraduate level in the country is being conducted by CBSE
The exam date for All India Engineering Entrance Examination had been announced by CBSE i.e. 26th April 2009.

Piercy Conner: British Architects in India

‘Unlike western architecture, India’s is open and expressive’, Stephen Bayley The Observer, Sunday 4 January 2009

Perkins Eastman design for Kohinoor competition

International architecture firm envisions a sustainable, greener addition to Mumbai

Mumbai’s tallest building design revealed

Set to be the tallest building in Mumbai standing 301 meters or 1000 ft tall, Shreepati Skies or the dancing lady shaped building promises to be unlike any other structure in the India’s or Asia’s Skyline. The master mind behind this structure is no stranger to tall buildings – renowned Architect Reza Kabul has to his credit the tallest completed building of India (Shreepati Arcade listed in the Limca book of Records 2003).

Correa slams DDA for Siri Fort mess

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361 IAB Conference

20th to 22nd March 2009 The conference series at the AEC World Expo & Conference aims to capture practices with the “one-degree of difference”. Its various tracks create a multi-directional showcase of ideas and innovations that have had a significant impact on the habitat around us. Each speaker, be it an architect, engineer or CEO, [...]