PUNE: There have been some cases of flouting the norm of having a balcony parapet or hand railing not less than 1.2 metres. Architect Prakash Walade said, “The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has its ...
Historic architecture made a clear distinction between the normal load-bearing wall up to the roof and the non-load bearing parapet wall on the terrace. In village homes if it was the simple mud wall ...
Although the practice of using a concrete barrier down the center of a roadway to separate opposing traffic dates back to the mid-1940s, the practice seems really to have gained steam when, in 1955, ...