Himanshu Burte - Livemint.com
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Member since 03-09-2009
Last visited 08-24-2009
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  • Monday, August 24, 2009
    Posted at 2:27:00 PM
    The Levi Strauss & Company campus development, just off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, is a great example of how you can enhance the public space of a city when you put up a new building. The site of the development is the original Levi Strauss factory--yes, the birthplace of denim. The development is placed on two generous lots across a street. The buildings are organized to create well-shaped spaces between them. The arrangement of buildings on the western lot is the more remarkable part. The two corporate office buildings snake around.
  • Monday, June 29, 2009
    Posted at 6:56:00 PM
    I saw my first stalactites two days ago in an underground cave in central Pennsylvannia, USA. It was a wonderful experience, of course. But it also set me thinking about how we are locked into a cycle of destroying much of nature by our very enthusiasm for it. Mind you, Penn’s Cave looked to be in rather good health for a popular tourist spot ( Kilroy might never have been there). It is an underground cave about half a mile long and filled with water that seeps through cracks in the rocky hill that is its roof. You glide over the water in a small.
  • Thursday, June 11, 2009
    Posted at 4:05:00 PM
    A few days ago at the University of California, Berkeley, I attended a small meeting of people from different disciplines discussing an initiative that helps indigenous American tribes ( or American Indians) map their own lands and landscapes. Much that happened in the meeting made me think about how destructive much modern development has been everywhere. As I heard about the American Indians, I thought of the original forest dwellers in India, the many tribal communities well adjusted to forest lands which were taken over first by the British.
  • Friday, June 05, 2009
    Posted at 11:07:00 AM
    Every time you eat in the US, you consume paper (more like, every time you do any necessary function, actually). But how close paper sticks to food in the cycle of consumption is perhaps most visible in a university setting, where much of the food people carry around in bags has been bought, rather than brought from home. Even on the streets and food places of New York, however, food is carried in layers of paper and plastic. Food done, fingers, faces and perhaps even the table, are wiped with more paper. The beauty of it is this: none of this waste.
  • Thursday, April 16, 2009
    Posted at 11:24:00 AM
    Infrastructure. The word conjures up images of cables, electric pylons, drains and roads. But how about the Golden Gate Bridge? I see the iconic bridge in the distance, a number of times everyday as I walk from home to the University campus in Berkeley, California. Berkeley is just across the bay from San Francisco. Primarily known for the campus of the University of California there, it is also a small and beautiful city that climbs up a hillside and ends up looking out over the bay. The campus is on higher ground than much of the city. From the.
  • Thursday, March 26, 2009
    Posted at 5:09:00 PM
    Whenever I travel I am glad to have been trained as an architect. After all, except for wild landscapes, most places we visit are shaped by buildings, streets and open spaces. And we visit them because the buildings, streets and open spaces are special. As are the people, and the way they go about their lives in those spaces. So then, the work-life balance has never been as good as it is currently for me, work being indistinguishable from pleasure. For the last few months I have been on either coast of the United States on a Fulbright fellowship.
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