Nazrul Tirtha: Poetry in Concrete

[ad_1] Photography: Abin Design Studio and Rangan Chatterjee . A museum and academic research centre dedicated to the late revolutionary poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, architecturally expresses his zealous ideas through a series of ‘twisted’ cuboids… Located on an arterial road of a planned township in New Town Kolkata, this 90,000 sq ft (total plot size 2 acres) tribute to the renowned poet is surrounded by generic built forms with no active public spaces nearby; a prime reason that the building is conceptualized as an inward-looking breathing space amidst the dense city fabric, opines principal architect Abin Chaudhury of Abin Design […]