Paolo Soleri, the visionary Italian-American architect and theorist who built the famed urban setting ‘Arcosanti’ in the Arizona high desert, died on the 9th of April 2013 at the age of 93. Soleri dedicated his life to promoting an art of living that re-establishes the all-important relationship between human beings and the environment they live in.

At the turn of the millennium, the “Middle East” was renowned as an astute block of sovereign nations with soaring GDP’s and glittering cities with all the trappings of the rich and the not so-famous, with wealth abundantly amassed as a result of an “eternal” supply of natural resources.

Icon is C Anjalendran’s latest built work in Pakistan and his second project outside Sri Lanka. Designed as a flagship department store for the Ghouri family, the building is located in the town of Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, 500 km north-east of Karachi.

Contemporary Urban Residential Architecture in Sri Lanka is a reflection of changing lifestyle patterns of urban society with the demands of work, time, social settings and response to tropical conditions.

The task of transforming a 20th Century construction into an acoustically sound music lounge is a difficult one and is what Archt. Murad Ismail undertook with the Qbaa project.

Experimental music fundamentally refers to “sound” itself, regardless of whether it emanates from a standard instrument or is the sound of one’s own heartbeat. Fusion music, on the other hand is the integration of music of different cultures and periods of time.

In January 1958 a young Danish man in his twenties gets off a ship in Colombo. He is an architect; he is devastatingly handsome and has a wry sense of humour.

The Pyramid of Djoser is the mother of all pyramids and over 4600 years old. It is a step pyramid built by the Vizier Imhotep for Pharaoh Djoser, comprising six “mastabas” or rectangular, flat-roofed tombs stacked in decreasing size to a height of 62metres.