A Hyderabad developer building a 150-acre residential project faced losing around 800 mango trees to a link road, so he bought another plot and spent six to eight months moving the trees instead of cutting them down

A Hyderabad developer building a 150-acre residential project faced losing around 800 mango trees to a link road, so he bought another plot and spent six to eight months moving the trees instead of cutting them down

Photo credit: Vata Foundation When a link road threatened around 800 mango trees on a 150-acre residential project in Hyderabad, developer Ashwin Rao faced a difficult choice: allow the trees to be cut or find a way to preserve them. He chose the latter, bought another plot of land and arranged to move the trees….

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Who Was Laurie Baker? The British architect who built homes for India’s poor, used local materials and became the ‘Gandhi of Indian Architecture’? |

Who Was Laurie Baker? The British architect who built homes for India’s poor, used local materials and became the ‘Gandhi of Indian Architecture’? |

His work earned him the name “Gandhi of architecture.” Laurie Baker believed a house did not have to be expensive to be beautiful. At a time when concrete and steel were often seen as the symbols of modern construction, the British-born architect turned to local bricks, traditional building methods and the natural surroundings to design…

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