Interlacing Perspectives

‘Meraki-2019’ A visionary Seminar series presented by Dr.Baliram Hiray College of Architecture, Bandra(East), Mumbai.

Facilitating A Community Through Architectural Practice

The humble, self-designed, self-built and organically planned home built by the majority of the world population rarely gets appreciated and critiqued as a viable lesson in architectural design.

The Art Of Solving Problems Creatively

The practice of architecture is perhaps incomplete without the complement of a variety of other arts.

The Next In Vernacular Architecture

Architecture has become a capitalist.

Rethinking The Future: Architecture And Its Education

“I want to be like animals, the bird makes a nest in one or two days, the rat digs a hole in a night, but intelligent humans like us spend 30 years to have a house, that’s wrong.” - Jon Jandai

When Your Work Is Transformative, Why Shouldn't Your Workspace Be?

Our mission to create transformational workspace design solutions took us, this time, to the offices of Mavenir Systems.

Spaces That Inspire, Encourage, And Care

The design of the Happy office in Mumbai by Studio Osmosis demarcates a definite shift in office space design towards multi-functional workspaces, driven by mobile technology and changing work styles, while also accounting for work-life balance and employee wellbeing.

Exploration And Experimentation In Architecture

In creating an office in Bengaluru, Biome Environmental Solutions pushes the boundaries of sustainability-centred design thought and the use of natural materials in innovative ways to build need-based spaces rather than conforming to the ever-so-prevalent growth-based paradigm.

Nostalgia, Narratives And Nuances In Brick

The basic building block of almost all architecture, the brick, has come a long way. From a humble element that is often painted and concealed in most homes to a marker of perfection, precision and many more attributes for those who choose to use them sans any finish. The Brick House by CollectiveProject is distinguished by its use of exposed-brickwork implemented within complex geometries. But if one looks beyond the first layer of the bricks; both physically and metaphorically; it reveals a context and narrative immersed in nostalgia and experimentation.

Emphasising The Relevance Of Conscious Design

It is challenging for companies to anticipate the imminent changes in the business industry. Technology evolves and businesses follow suit. The setting of a corporate space requires avid attention in order to improve the complete scenario of the business sector. With time it has almost become mandatory for the newer workplaces to give importance to the space planning and aesthetics to keep pace with the growing standards.

Modern Spaces, Traditional Sensibilities

The headquarters of Bajaj Finserv in Viman Nagar, Pune designed by NCUBE Planning & Design Pvt. Ltd. creates an ideal mix of spaces – for focused individual work, for collaborative efforts, and for partnering with clients – in relaxed yet formal environment; perfect for an industry that is modern in its outlook, but traditional in its approach.

Fatalism Of Architecture Or Architecture Of Fatalism?

The following essay critically reflects on the morphogenesis of architecture in the South Asian territories while debating and positioning on the role of the architect in shaping our built environment. It builds its premise on readings such as Correa’s ‘Change and Continuity’, Raj Rewal and Romila Thapar’s ‘Tradition and Change’, Yatin Pandya’s ‘Contemporary Indian Architecture’ and ‘Courtyard houses of India’ etc.

The Complexities Of Simplicity

Built for a young couple with 2 children, the home emulates the traditional courtyard system of the client’s former town, Mangalore. While the brief entailed a contemporary home, the architecture firm Anahata consciously chose to imbibe characters of the courtyard system of living in the urban context.

Hitachi Grabs Smart Air Conditioners Company Of The Year Award

Adding another feather to its wing and cutting above the rest of the industry players, Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Limited was awarded as ‘Indian Smart Air Conditioners Company of the Year Award 2018’ by Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting organization that recognizes and awards companies which show visionary growth, are inspired by innovation and demonstrate thought leadership abilities.

In Search Of The Engineered Aesthetic - High Note Performance, New Delhi

High Note Performance, a motorcycle gears store in New Delhi, designed by Headlight Design takes its inspiration from a variety of motorcycle-related sources to create a store design that is raw, edgy, and industrial in its feel but sophisticatedly expressive at the same time – much like a motorcycle itself!

Past Perfect - House In A Grove, Tiruppathur, Chettinad, Tamil Nadu

A modern home draws inspiration from heritage of Chettinad. Not from grandeur or riches but merging of global aesthetics and ideas. Siphoning the threads of a rather shaky past, the House in a Grove aspires to re-define heritage.

Home Away From Home - Boys' Hostel, Gurgaon

The Boys’ Hostel at St. Andrews in Khurrampur, Gurgaon by Zero Energy Design Lab is a space that responds to its climatic context, is environmentally sustainable, and provides ample spaces for interaction for its inhabitants – all the while breaking stereotypes of what we have come to associate with conventional hostel designs.

Soundproofing Membrane From Mapei

Any Design work is characterised by a precise professional commitment: finding the best way to combine aesthetics with functionality and elegance with practicality.

Wishful Architecture For Social Stability

Alireza Taghaboni, a practicing architect since 2004, founded Next Office in 2009. Taghaboni is also a painter and holds a Ph.D. in Architecture. His project, Sharifi-ha house, with its revolving rooms, adapts to a shifting lifestyle and demonstrates a critical take on building regulations and zoning by-laws, was shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival in 2014 and has been acknowledged internationally in professional and public media. In 2018, Taghaboni was awarded the inaugural Royal Academy Dorfman award in recognition of his talent that “represents the future of architecture”. Over the past decade, the practice has won several Memar Awards, a prestigious national award for architecture in Iran held annually, making it one of the top prize-winning practices in the country.

Ultratop System – Versatility and Resistance

From industrial settings to museums: functional flooring in line with the latest trends in contemporary design.

Shaw Contract's New Bengaluru Experience Center Achieves The Leed Gold Standard

A fully-owned brand of Shaw Industries, the world’s largest carpet manufacturer and leading floor covering provider, Shaw Contract has just received the LEED v4 Gold for Interior Design and construction certification for its newly opened 343 square metres experience center in Bengaluru, India, making it one of the first few projects in India to have achieved this international standard.

Hitachi Grabs Smart Air Conditioners Company Of The Year Award

Adding another feather to its wing and cutting above the rest of the industry players, Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India Limited was awarded as ‘Indian Smart Air Conditioners Company of the Year Award 2018’ by Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting organization that recognizes and awards companies which show visionary growth, are inspired by innovation and demonstrate thought leadership abilities.

Creating Attractive Urban Design

How can India and the Netherlands collaborate in the sector?

Artificial Intelligence For A Sustainable Future Urban Development

The paper explores how innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are leading to new urban planning methods based on the interplay between human creative thinking and the computational power of modern computers (Figure 1).

A Lightness of Being

Suchitra Deep spoke to Kazuyo Sejima about SANAA’s work and also her own journey as a woman in the profession. Kazuyo Sejima is associated with SANAA, the acclaimed Tokyo based practice where Sejima is a partner with Ryue Nishizawa. They were awarded the Pritzker prize in 2010, when they received international identity due to this notable achievement.

Delight in Dining

A refined material palette combined with contemporary design by Anarchitect and T.ZED Architects bring together a pleasing experience in a posh ambiance.

Rustic Impressions

The Photo Company, Designed by Lovekar Design Associates, grows organically from the skeleton of the existing factory site into a rustic, albeit contemporary image of its past.

Restrained Strokes Of An Artist's Brush

At the mention of a Zaha Hadid-designed building, the most obvious imagery that comes to mind is larger-than-life, dramatic structures in a seemingly gravity-defying stance. In contrast, the calculated grandeur of the new Salerno Maritime Terminal by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) exemplifies how classic elements we associate with ZHA’s past works continue to inform and inspire the design approach, while creating a structure that does not feel the need to restrict itself within these parameters. 

Back To Basics Retreat In The Sahyadris

To do justice to an impeccable precinct, Khosla Associates craft inconspicuous architecture that curtails creation and shelter to its minimal basics.

Building Resilience

Sustenance of the city as one organism.