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Is Instagram Changing Architecture?

Is Instagram Changing Architecture?

Since its establishment in 2010, Instagram has quickly emerged as the most generation-defining and trend-setting mobile application. With more than 2 billion monthly users as of early 2023, the photo-sharing platform profoundly impacted anything from how businesses operate and market their products to our sense of aesthetics. The content we share or consume on Instagram is already a […]

Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 – 1998)

Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 - 1998)Trailblazing Women Architects: Minneta De Silva (1918 - 1998)

“Expressive, unapologetic, and ahead of her time in ecological and participative design” are the words that The Architectural Review uses to describe Minneta De Silva — widely considered the first female architect in Sri Lanka and one of the most important figures in South Asian modernist architecture. Minneta De Silva was born in 1918 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, thirty years […]

These 5 Latin American Cities Are Embracing A Smart Future

These 5 Latin American Cities Are Embracing A Smart Future

Smart cities are among our best bets for a livable and prosperous future. By leveraging technology to solve problems, smart cities can improve the quality of life for residents, promote sustainability, increase efficiency, enable better decision-making, create new opportunities, and foster economic growth. Hence, it’s no surprise that smart cities have rapidly spread worldwide. In […]

How Indigenous Wisdom Can Inform Modern Architecture

How Indigenous Wisdom Can Inform Modern Architecture

The greatest injustice of climate change is the fact that those who are most vulnerable to it are the people who contributed the least — such as the indigenous communities around the world. On the other hand, these communities also have the wisdom, experience, and the technologies to construct buildings in a way to minimize the notoriously high environmental impact of […]

Virtual Playgrounds: How “Gamification” Can Help Us Solve Urban Problems

Virtual Playgrounds: How "Gamification" Can Help Us Solve Urban Problems

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing,” said George Bernard Shaw, the celebrated Irish playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Playing is human; likewise, games have been a fundamental tool for human evolution. Throughout history, they helped us to learn, create social bonds, release stress, and […]

4 Cost-Efficient Ways to Elevate Building Security in 2023

4 Cost-Efficient Ways to Elevate Building Security in 2023

The need to secure one’s physical surroundings from risks such as theft, burglary, vandalism, fire incidences, or any other potentially unwanted events or emergencies is one of the universal human needs. Hence, the global physical security market is constantly innovating and adding improved products, and recording stable growth. In 2022, it was valued at USD 117 billion and is […]