These were important aspects that were heeded during ancient Sri Lanka. Thus Feedback examines the unique architecture and techniques of building during the Kandy period.

The Confetti section looks at “Squaring the circle”, which  speaks about the importance of addressing history, when delving into the Bordeaux Stadium by Herzog & de Meuron. “The idea as the driving force behind a project” by Valerio Olgiati as the name implies emphasises on the importance of the idea by itself, despite economic or other constaints. Further, Tom de Paor has taken the relationship with the place and its physical stratification as an opportunity to build a house fully reflecting the site itself in Ireland. While British designer Michael Young explains his design relationship with a versatile and malleable material –Aluminium.

Projects from Sri Lanka include the simplistic design of a resort in Induruwa by Vinod Jayasinghe that blends with the landscape. And the second is a villa by Prasanna Jayalath that co-exists with its surroundings of lush greenery and a flowing stream. Moreover, for international projects a complex intervention by David Chipperfield Architects in the centre of Kensington Gardens gives the block shape and character owing to the fact that the new building is combined with the pre-existing structure. Also featuring a residential building in Lugano Switzerland, which overcomes constraints imposed in the site to create a building that also incorporates sustainable low energy consumptions methods the magazine too brings to account of how a wood-processing and furniture company from Friuli is setting an example of developing self-sustaining projects, accompanied by appropriate industrial tactics.

This issue asks the question, “What is the role of this industry, this profession to safeguard the very environment that provides the platform or the canvass for the expression of human artistic creation?”