spotted this sign in the rick’s rear-view mirror:
more love give spean
any idea what this can mean? and yes, the last word was “spean”
Thursday, January 31, 2008
rickshaw sign
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
caged
a steel reinforcement cage for the footing of a retaining wall. this reinforcement cage looks a lot better like this rather than in a head-on one point perspective.
construction site visits offer great photo-ops :)
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construction site visits offer great photo-ops :)
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at charmichael road
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another reinforcement cage here
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4000 visitors’ marked crossed. thanks!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
bamboo and coir
another view of one of the structures made in college for the building technology workshop. this one started from the first floor and aimed to reach a point in mid-air above the college lawn; made of bamboo, coir rope and binding wire, with some nylon ropes for suspension. photo of another structure of the same workshop here
Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
4th yr architecture design competition
this was the panel that we had pinned up for yesterday’s competition. rohan’s work - hybrid communities at kamathipura - is on the left; mine - community enrichment centre at girgaon - is on the right. (i need a better title, but that’s another story). we looked around at the entries from all other colleges before the jury, and were quite confident about our work. infact, at the risk of sounding presumptuous, we were quite confident that 20 other entries from our class would have fared better than the entries that were pinned up.
but obviously we knew that winning, actually doing well, would depend entirely on the jurors. if the jurors would be like the ones invited for our college juries, then we would succeed; on the other hand, if they were the ‘other type’ of jurors, it would be a disaster. we were prepared either for the best or for the worse. surprisingly, we fared somewhere in the middle.
a five star hotel (dypcoa) was judged the best project and a banker’s training institute (lsr) won the second position. my project got an ‘honourable mention’; while rohan’s project was apparently appreciated too.
nevertheless, this was a great experience; right from realizing the implied meaning of “a 4 feet by 4 feet panel” to getting to view the nature of projects in other colleges and their design responses. at the end of the day, we were confident about our design process and glad about the school of thought where we come from; even if it means shrinking drawings to a readable-only-from-3-inches-away scale…
Saturday, January 26, 2008
republic day
india celebrates its 59th republic day today
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photo clicked at infiniti mall, lokhandwala
Friday, January 25, 2008
shopping island
had some work at inorbit mall today. though this wasn’t the first mall to come up in mumbai, i think it was the first that resembles one of those large US malls; with a wide drive in, a long road frontage, dead walls facing the road, with static advts on them, a sprawling single level, open-air car park at the back … and the way the landscaping is carried out along the entire length, the mall gets completely cordoned off from the road. a shopping haven bordered by an artery road on one side, and a creek on the other side?
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note to self: firing; service; bad; cake; argument; desert; restaurant; bday; 51st; dad
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note to self: firing; service; bad; cake; argument; desert; restaurant; bday; 51st; dad
