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...
“ Art is not what you see but what you make others see ” Nowadays, many people are getting their interest in art and sculpture that is the reason why artists are shifting from traditional sculpting to contemporary sculpting which is more understandable by the common folks. Going through the history of Indian sculpture we can see that 1940’s and 1950’s, can be called the time when sculpture in Indian evolved to a cutting-edge, precise autochthonous language in itself. Artworks of the recent times speak of the modern outlook towards the western and traditional Indian norms by combining them. Artists are also experimenting with uncanny substances such as concrete, gravel in addition to cement, giving his art a rural and tribal outlook. This is also the reason why wooden sculpture in India has become so popular. The Sculptors who were educated inside the instructional pragmatist style at British artwork faculties normally worked on secular subjects – ancient and medieval Indian c...