Archive · 7 Sep 2025

Architect Advocates Adaptive Reuse to Preserve Calcutta's Heritage

Architect Advocates Adaptive Reuse to Preserve Calcutta's Heritage

Imagine old, beautiful buildings in Calcutta.

An architect thinks they are super valuable, like how fancy hotels in other cities are in cool old buildings.

She wants to make these buildings useful again, like turning them into hotels or shops.

Students from a special school looked at these buildings and suggested how to fix them up without changing their charm.

They proposed ideas like having all the shop signs the same size and fixing the buildings in different ways depending on how old or damaged they are.

The goal is to save these old buildings and make them last, while still keeping their unique look.

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