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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Chennai’
June 21, 2008
Green Washing the Glass Guzzler
The news piece in Architectural Record will make you roll your eyes looking at the title ” Chennai Airport to become India’s Greenest”…yet again. .’Green Washing’ the energy guzzler in a glass box. Not sure what these guys from Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler are smoking when talking about ‘lush’ 2-acre gardens [...]
June 13, 2008
Madras Blues in Miami
, originally uploaded by purpleganesh.
Until my trip to Miami in late 2007, my relationship to Art Deco was distantly academic. It was just one more style..something I was more amused with when my ex-boss toiled over the minutiae in elevation design recreating his inner art deco in twenty first century bay area streetscape. The theatres [...]
