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Wrinkles mean you laughed, grey hairs mean you cared, and scars mean you lived. A life well lived deserves a calm, restful, and tranquil home to spend the sunset years. It is this vision that led to the creation of a luxurious old-age home just about 22 kms from Vadodara.

The dream dreamt by Mr. J.C. Kathrani was then given the shape of reality by Vadodara-based stARCH Design Spectrum co-owned by architects Tanuj and Sonali Desai.

Street art started off as a graffiti on bare walls. It has now evolved as a medium to portray visual creativity onto the canvas of street in the form of varied elements that symbolise user-touch points. Artists have taken it a notch higher by including not just walls but roads, structures and stairs as blank slates to display their artwork. In modern scenario, it has also become a movement for awareness wherein artists from different backdrops join hands to create masterpieces within the city envelope. Street art defines an experience that adds liveliness into a space, often used for commuting.

Artworks that were recognised by means of colours and textures have now extended their horizon to numerous elements that act as street art installations. This creative and communicative art sure knows how to attract varied kind of users at all times. Let's take a look at one such interactive and flexible street art.

Innovative. Intriguing. Inspiring - these three "I's" have formed the basis of architecture and construction in Dubai. Sustainability has always inclined towards using resources wisely while saving them for the future generations. Dubai has apparently taken this concept to a whole new level. Already owning the title of building the World's Tallest Structure, Burj Khalifa (828 m tall), they have set high standards in the field of construction and technology.

Throttling at full speed into the 21^st century, with technological advancements in the world of architecture and construction going far and beyond all expectations and imaginations, we turned a Utopic world into pragmatic reality. Right from the skyscrapers soaring high, to converting a desert into a dense urban forest, we achieved control over harsh climatic conditions through materials and technology. While learning to build in erstwhile impossible conditions, we also learned to strike a balance with the environment by building sustainably. We also addressed the issue of urban density by looking at the future of building on water!

However, come 2020 - and we are no longer so sure of the future! No technology, no artifical intelligence, no augmented reality - nothing helped save the world from the Covid-19 pandemic! 

Modern art has reinvented itself in many ways over the years. From fabled oils by famous artists, to digitized art today, we have come a long way. The thing that remains unperturbed though, through centuries of change and evolution in art is – expressionism. A mood, or a story, a feeling, or a thought, an excitement or an ache  - 'expressions' of these on paper or canvas, and for that matter, any media - continues to be the underlying note in all artforms. Today, art has taken a new form. In this revolution of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality, art has moulded itself to a digital presence in a way that enhances the viewer's experience; reaching out to the inert minds of even a layman.

The question arises, how are these two subjects being juxtaposed to create a whole?