Between losing and loss
New art exhibition is a wistful take on what we have left when Himalayan identities are gone
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The Red Panda House
New building in Taplejung is not just a training centre, but a base camp for Kanchenjunga trekkers
Style and substance
The Himalaya may be famous globally for the world’s highest mountains and the people who climb them, but this 3,000km range has...
Niels Gutschow leaves home
"Welcome to my playground,” calls Niels Gutschow from the brick-laid front yard of his home in Bhaktapur. At the centre stands the...
Remembering Robert Powell
Robert Powell’s drawing of the courtyard façade of Kuthu Math in Bhaktapur is a prime example of his singular style: light enters...
Building back a beyul in Tsum
I was born and raised in Tsum Nubri’s Chhokangparo village in Upper Gorkha, the holy valley famous for its Kyiumolung pilgrimage. From...
Remembering Des-la at Shangri~la
1,000 recollections of Desmond Doig at the hotel’s Shambala Garden that he designed in Kathmandu
Crafting a heritage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1CkRG7MxU“Had I not become a woodcarver, I don’t know what I would be doing today,” says Indra Prasad Shilpakar. “I have never...
Coming out of the woodwork
Heinrich Meyer came to Nepal in 1975 to work on the German government-supported Bhaktapur Development Project to restore the old town and...
Bayalpata Hospital in Nepal wins global design award
Nepal’s Bayalpata Hospital has won an international award in the Health Category at the World Architecture Festival held in Amsterdam on Thursday.The...
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