Akash Singh

At Pinakin Patel’s 50-year retrospective at the Nilaya Anthology in Mumbai, STIR spoke to the polymath about a journey spanning decades, disciplines and daring ideas. by Akash Singh, Zohra Khan Is it a wave? Is it a particle? One of the most bewildering (and counterintuitive) ideas of physics has been how, at the minutest of scales, sub-atomic particles like photons and electrons are undeterministic—we cannot predict their future.

Most post-apocalyptic fiction often renders a dismal portrait of our urbanscapes, comprising decaying concrete pillars, roots emerging out of cracked pavements, overgrown foliage obscuring the proclamations of gigantic billboards, humanity’s ‘legacy’ withering away and erstwhile prime real estate being reclaimed by the wild. However, come to think of it, such images aren’t limited to our imaginations of the future.

Architecture 07 mins. read Retaining the weathered historical appeal of the abandoned winery, BDSD Boundless Design employs a sensitive approach to give the site functional efficiency. by Akash Singh Wildness Promenade, an adaptive reuse project for the Wild Island Cultural & Life Community in the Chinese city of Huizhou, prompts a certain curiosity – its fragmented history weaved together with contemporaneity.