Ganapathy St, West Mambalam, Chennai and Scripps Ranch, San Diego — I have family living in both neighborhoods. .., they ought to have something in common. For starters they both have their fair share of faux pediments supported by Corinthian capitals. Both San Diego and Chennai are short on fresh water [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Architecture’
November 9, 2008
When God lies in Stucco…
“Thoonilum Irrupaar, Thurumbilum Irrupaar” – “He is in a formidable pillar, and he is in a speck of rust”…proclaims Hiranyakashipu’s son Prahlada in answer to his raging dad’s rhetorical question on Vishnu’s omnipresence. When the confounded Hiranyakashipu smashes the pillar with his mace, the lion-head, human-bodied, hyper-avatar of Narasimha (think the exact opposite of the [...]
August 3, 2008
Malibu Hindu Temple – A celestial union of bad detailing and poor maintenance
0609_MalibuT_Wires, originally uploaded by purpleganesh.
Couldn’t help not being appalled by the overload of terrible detailing, structural failures and poor maintenance. I have two favorites – the doorway to cultural cultural hall embellished by trash dump and the plastic spoon stuck in between the crack…Whoever did that, what was he/she thinking?
