In this issue

This issue seeks to highlight sustainable building practices. Sustainability is not defined by what we build, but how we build. Going green is not as simple as just using local materials, and sustainability doesn’t equate to using primitive techniques. Today, it is pertinent to use technology to accelerate our path to a greener future. This issue takes you to some of the most thoughtfully, consciously designed spaces, each illustrating a different approach, each a different definition for sustainability. Together, to build, an environmentally-conscious, climate-responsive world. Remember, the Earth doesn’t need us, we need the Earth!

Adopting Eco-Friendly Techniques

Architectural firm All About Detailing experiments with new materials to create a unique environmentally-conscious habitat.

2 mins

In Conversation with ASHWINI SULAKHE THORAT: The Visionary Behind the Noida International Airport

She designs airports for a living! Ashwini Sulakhe Thorat, Lead Architect of Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL), is perhaps helming one of the biggest and most complicated projects in the country at the moment.

10+ mins

AN ECLECTIC SPACE FOR RECREATION

The Mocktail Restaurant in Bihar brings together a tactitle synergy of colours, textures and materials.

1 min

CREATING INTERACTIVE SPACES

The design intent of the Educliff Global School designed by Creative Designer Architects is centred around the locally built architecture by the village artisans and creating spaces that foster learning, well-being and productivity for the children.

4 mins

VERNACULAR RETREAT

Ahmedabad The project designed by STUDIO 2+2 is a vacation house that resembles vernacular Indian homes.

2 mins

ECO-CONSCIOUS DESIGN

RAAS Chhatrasagar designed by Studio Lotus is an award-winning project showcasing a camp-like design vocabulary that borrows from regional influences and reinterpretation of indigenous craft forms.

4 mins

A GREEN ENERGY MANIFESTO

Global operating architecture and urbanism practice, MVRDV's 'Sun Rock' project in Taiwan is a built manifesto for Taipower's carbon-free future a

4 mins

CASUADING ARCHES

Designed by Studio Precht, this project in Tel Aviv is defined by arches and cascading terraces that responds to the broad display of the city's Bauhaus era and the haptic materiality of its old town.

4 mins

PROPAGATING THE USE OF WOOD' AS A SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MATERIAL

Pranesh Chhibber, Country Director, Canadian Wood elucidates why wood is the best choice when it comes to sustainable building materials.

2 mins

TOWARDS A GREEN FUTURE

We bring to you an interesting line-up of spaces, concepts and products that are revolutionising the notion of sustainable design

8 mins

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Architect Rahul Kadri decodes the notion of sustainability in architecture and asserts on how our built environment should be resilient and self sufficient as we build for the future.

5 mins

SUSTAINABILITY IN HOSPITALITY DESIGN

Ravi Sarangan, Director & Co-Founder of Edifice Consultants Pvt Ltd, writes about the role of building materials and design methods to achieve sustainability in the design of hotels

4 mins

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