Green Haven of Quietude

[ad_1] Photography: Nina Mascarenhas and Soumitro Ghosh When one thinks of a memorial in India, the mind’s eye conjures up an obelisk with an inscribed narrative or statues of stone soldiers. Breaking away from the conventional, the National Martyr’s Memorial in Bangalore, India, is a green oasis of quiet remembrance and homage. “After engaging with the client’s brief and pouring over various case studies of memorials in India and abroad, we settled on expressing solemnity primarily through a landscape gesture, where the built form is incidental,” explains architect Nisha Ghosh. .. The ceremonial path of commemoration begins with inscribed, free-standing […]