Capitalist Landscape vs Communist Landscape

Photos above are of Mumbai and Kozhikode.

The tag 'AI generated content' tag in two of them refers to the content-aware tool used to remove and patch up the wings of the airplane interrupting the small top right corners of the respective photographs. 

Terracotta Temples, Bansberia, Kolkata

Belur Math, Kolkata

Waterfront Clubhouse, Abin Chaudhuri, Bansberia, West Bengal

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The first sight of the building is an elevated framed pavilion.

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This elevated space is accessed by a grand stairway that doubles up as an amphitheatre.

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An open cage holds a rather free space within the frame.

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The outline of the cage is recessed into the open frame, creating access to a balcony behind, that overlooks the court below.

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One side of the open frame sees the football ground.

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The other side of the cage gives a view of the pond at the back side.

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A small community auditorium is hidden behind the landscape on the lower level.

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As one turn around, the simiple composition of two rotated rectangular volumes placed over each other is revealed.

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The services are tucked behind neatly out of direct sight of the viewer.

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The projecting triangular corner of the lower rectangle becomes the balcony above...

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...whereas that of the upper rectangle shades the space as a chhaja below.

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The two volumes talk to each other through their transparency.

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and the hidden and revealed spaces.

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Dhanbad / Jharia 2025

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