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It's extremely rare that we come across built-forms that deliberately yield to the power of the landscape they're set in. Agree? Read about one such modern boathouse, set in a Canadian landscape and leave us your views.

Can robots substantiate the 'real' feel? Check out the newly launched world's first robotic bartending system and leave us your valuable inputs...

Creating a miniature real-world for a make-believe narrative, Architecture BRIO design a scaled-to-fit doll house incorporating real miniature fixtures and fittings. Check it out and leave us your views...

A plush home has an array of definitions. Check out this interior renovation in a South Mumbai home and leave us your views...

What is it that makes a common man crave for an identity for his abode as much he does for himself on a personal level? Check out this artistically sculpted home by Ar. Sanjay Puri and leave us your views…

The pursuit of Architecture is just the same as stage acting: to move and delight one's heart, believe LAN Architects. Check out the Maillon Theatre in the making that perpetrates this notion. We await your feedback.

Check out this traditionally nuanced contemporary home that makes a very distinctive creative statement of a simple but evolved lifestyle. Do leave us your views...

Why does a building of commemoration like a monument or a memorial have to be artistic? Do check out the monument-in-the-making in Lucknow and leave us your views…

I'm an admirer of Caitlin Flanagan's skills as a writer of prose, and I like that she likes to take on topics that others shy away from. But it's always bothered me that the Atlantic lets her write articles that, under guise of book reviewing or some such, make sweeping statements of social trends without any kind of empirical backing or even recognition of the possibility that assertions can be verified or not through data. Fortunately, for the first time ever this blog has an intern, Ryan McNeely, currently pursuing an MA at Princeton and conversant with research methods and facts in a way that Flanagan isn't. I asked him to poke around at her latest article which posits that very young teen girls are spearheading a cultural counterrevolution against a burgeoning hookup revolution. Not surprisingly, there seem to be some problems.

Apparently, if Facebook wanted to repair its reputation, all it had to do was seem like it was helping to topple an authoritarian regime. Now that the U.S. media is loudly pushing the idea that social media can change Egypt-and next, the world!-it makes Mark Zuckerberg's tendency to monetize every aspect of our online lives seem less important.

Treating all men as potential predators doesn't make our kids safer.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2011) - Despite the fears of some, a new study suggests that use of the internet in general does not make people more likely to believe political rumors.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is well into its second week of operation, and is now getting more attention from media as well as from people planning similar actions across the country. This is a promising populist mobilization with a clear message against domination by political and economic elites. Against visions of a bleak and stagnant future, the occupiers assert the optimism that a better world can be made in the streets. They have not resigned themselves to an order where the young are presented with a foreseeable future of some combination of debt, economic dependency, and being paid little to endure constant disrespect, an order that tells the old to accept broken promises and be glad to just keep putting in hours until they can't work anymore. The occupiers have not accepted that living in modern society means shutting up about how it functions. In general, the occupiers see themselves as having more to gain than to lose in creating a new political situation - something that few who run the current system will help deliver. They are not eager for violence, and have shown admirable restraint in the face of attack by police. There may be no single clear agenda, but there is a clear message: that people will have a say in their political and economic lives, regardless of what those in charge want. Occupy Wall Street is a kind of protest that Americans are not accustomed to seeing. There was no permit to protest, and it has been able to keep going on through unofficial understandings between protestors and police. It is not run by professional politicians, astroturfers, or front groups with barely-hidden agendas. Though some organizations and political figures have promoted it, Occupy Wall Street is not driven by any political party or protest organization. It is a kind of protest that shows people have power when they are determined to use it. Occupy Wall Street could be characterized as an example of a new type of mass politics, which has been seen in

Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.

In July 2010, Martin Joel Erzinger, a hedge fund manager for extremely wealthy investors at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, was driving his car near Vail, Colorado, when he hit a bicyclist from behind and then sped away. The Vail Daily reported that the victim, Steven Milo, suffered "spinal cord injuries, bleeding from his brain and damage to his knee and scapula," which left him facing multiple surgeries. The newspaper's account of the incident makes clear that Erzinger should have been prosecuted for this incident.

Several aspects define building design: locale, context, function, occupancy… that become significant determinants of the final architectural make-up impacting cutting-edge dynamism that is the order of the day...

Moesgaard Museum Denmark wins Civic Trust Award 2015 for demonstrating excellence in architecture and making a positive social, cultural, environmental and economic impact on the local community. Check it out here...