The rain shelter at Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi, is a small but meaningful reminder. It is built entirely from waste wood and naturally fallen palm leaves collected within the park; the shelter shows how materials that would otherwise be discarded can be transformed into something useful, beautiful, and environmentally responsible. In cities filled with concrete, glass, and steel, it is easy to forget that the most beautiful building materials are often already around us. The rain shelter at Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi, is a small but meaningful reminder of this idea. Built entirely from waste wood and naturally fallen palm leaves collected within the park, the shelter shows how materials that would otherwise be discarded can be transformed into something useful, beautiful, and environmentally responsible. The idea was never to build another concrete structure. Instead, the goal was to create a shelter that felt like it truly belonged in the forest. Every branch, log, and palm le...
Sculptures these days shows the changing attitude of the world and the culture rather than the past it shows the future and the present. The years 1940’s and 1950’s, was the time when Indian sculpture developed into a modern, unique autochthonous language in itself; which was seen in the works of Ram Kinker Baij who is among the famous Indian sculpture artist names . His art gave a modern outlook to the western and traditional Indian norms by simply combining them in one. He also experimented with bizarre materials such as concrete, gravel as well as cement, which gave his art a rural and tribal outlook. During the year 1950 sculptors experimented with wood and stone, by preserving the original character of a solid block. But in the following two decades saw various kinds of sculpting techniques which created a reformed relationship among material, form and theme. While talking about sculptures in India we cannot miss out the contemporary Indian artist Neeraj Gupta’s name and h...