Heritage

Temples, courtyards, crafts and surviving architecture. The structures that outlasted the 2015 earthquake and the centuries before it.

Kathmandu

Kathmandu's Architecture: What the City Keeps Building Over What It Has

Kathmandu doesn't preserve its architecture so much as layer it. Newari courtyards inside office buildings, pagoda rooflines next to concrete frames, heritage sites surrounded by mid-rise construction.

Kathmandu Valley

Bhaktapur on a Tuesday Morning: Why You Should Come When Nobody Else Does

The tourist buses arrive at Bhaktapur around ten. Before that, the square belongs to the city. A Tuesday morning in Nepal's best-preserved medieval town and what the potters, priests, and schoolchildren do with the space.