The municipal authorities should not approve building plans that do not include structural plans for water tanks. If the tank is to be mounted on the roof, this should be catered for in the ...

Looking down a street in Daulatpur, a rural village in Punjab, India with a mishmash of eclectic, colorful architecture, photographer Rajesh Vora felt he had struck lucky. In front of him, was a ...

Though the designs could have been plucked from an amusement park, they were actually elaborate rooftop water tanks of private homes. Vora’s images of this phenomenon — a vernacular tradition ...