Architecture
Indian Architect & Builder
Legrand India Announces Its Experiential Centre Innoval In The Country
Mr. Jean Charles Thuard, CEO & Managing Director, Legrand India & Mr. Sameer Saxena, Director- Marketing, Legrand India at the launch of INNOVAL Studio in Mumbai.
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August 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
Why Are We Designing Poorly For The Poor?
Prasoon Kumar is an urban planner and architect with over 10 years of international design experience with his work spanning Asia, United States, Africa and Australia. In 2013, he co-founded billionBricks, a non-profit design studio which innovates shelter solutions with a vision to end homelessness in the world. He leads multidisciplinary teams, engages with communities and stakeholders to provide for high quality shelters to the poorest communities, creating opportunities for them to emerge out of poverty. Since its founding, billionBricks has rehabilitated more than 4000 homeless through its work.
5 min |
April 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
Building Resilience: Intent, Parameters And Agendas
Amit Prothi is Associate Director at 100ResilientCities, a program of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is working with cities in Asia including Singapore, Seoul, Melaka, Chennai, Surat, Da Nang and Can Tho to promote urban resilience. Amit has practiced in North America, Asia and Africa for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, US Government, and numerous municipalities and private sector clients. For nearly 20 years, he has worked on thematic areas including environmental planning, urban policy, urban design, land use planning, natural resource management, flood management, disaster risk reduction, housing, and community development.
4 min |
April 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
10+ min |
January 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
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January 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
2 min |
February 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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!
3 min |
February 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
4 min |
February 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
4 min |
February 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
2 min |
February 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Adaptive Reuse In The Contemporary World
By transforming a 60’s era pharmaceutical warehouse in the Okhla Industrial Area of New Delhi into a swanky, industrial chic office space for a creative agency, Studio Bipolar have not only created a shining example of how a design intervention can highlight the dormant beauty of our older buildings, but also made a compelling, aesthetic case for adaptive reuse of structures we would otherwise be tempted to demolish and rebuild upon.
3 min |
July 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Designing A Glocal Icon
In creating the headquarters for Bosch in Pune, the NCUBE Design team not only infuses the building with a global, international aesthetic but also brings in quirky elements of Pune city, making the office a perfect ambassador for a ‘glocal’ design.
3 min |
July 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Reinterpreting Intrigue
A corporate headquarters in Surat for a construction company, designed by The B.A.D. Studio rethinks the approach to visual curiosity, and how to transform these elements of intrigue from being strictly ornamental to heavily functional. Their design is intricately spliced and offset to create a visual diversion that also functionally benefits the spaces inside and outside the structure.
3 min |
July 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Reducing Costs Through Effective Specification Of Materials & Finishes
Surface finishes are enabling Indian Architects & Designers to achieve higher levels of durability and extended material lifespans, as well as cost savings throughout the life of the project.
4 min |
July 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Manit Rastogi Algorithms In Nature
Graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and the Architectural Association, London with Honours and Distinction in Energy and Environmental Studies. He is the Founder Partner of Morphogenesis with Sonali Rastogi.Manit is a founder member of The GRIHA Council, India’s own Green rating system. As a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of GRIHA Resource Persons Group on Environment and Ecology - Lt. Governor’s Secretariat, New Delhi, Manit works with urban policy makers to spearhead initiatives with an emphasis on environmental sensibility and social welfare.
2 min |
April 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
Gokhan Avcioglu Digitised Expressions
Born in Ankara, Turkey, Gokhan Avcioglu completed his education in KSU/BA with a degree in Architecture in 1983. He is the principal and founder of GAD (Global Architectural Development).Avcioglu is a member of AIA New York Chapter, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and The Chamber of Architects Turkey (TMMOB), French National Architects Order Board and the Dutch Bureau Architectenregister.
2 min |
April 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
Vikas Dil Awari Taking The Past Into The Future
Vikas Dilawari is a practicing conservation architect with more than two and a half decades of experience exclusively in the field of conservation, with scales ranging from urbanism to architecture. He has a double masters in conservation from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and from the University of York. He was the Head of Department of Conservation at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai, from its inception in 2007 to 2014. Dilawari has lectured and written extensively on the subject of conservation, nationally and internationally.
2 min |
April 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
Anne-Cecile Comar An Architectural Evolution
Anne-Cecile Comar is partner at the firm Atelier du Pont, along with Philippe Croisier. The firm employs 30 staff members from all kinds of backgrounds. Atelier du Pont is also a founding member of the architecture collective, Plan01 with which they created the eco design engineering office, Plan02, in 2008. Atelier du Pont is a multi-polar agency that combines public and private projects, architecture and town-planning, interiors and exteriors. These experiences have given the agency the opportunity to operate in a variety of occasionally difficult contexts and sites.
2 min |
April 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
An Unwavering Commitment To Innovation
Enrico Dini is known for incredible innovations in 3D printing and the first to build a working 3D printer for printing buildings. He became world famous as “The Man Who Prints Houses”. He invented the “D-shape” printer, the world’s first construction scale 3-dimensional printer. The machine prints using natural materials like sand, earth, and perhaps also lunar dust. It is the biggest 3D-printer in the world, handling objects as big as six metres cubed, layered in 5mm sections. The technique, says Dini, brings together the best of printing technology and robotics. He is presently working with Foster & partners, Renzo Piano, Fuksas, Zaha Hadid Architects, UN studio on this new technology.
2 min |
April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
An Adventure In Architecture
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Michael Green founded architecture firm MGA to create meaningful and sustainable change in building through innovation in construction sciences and design. Michael and his team are ambitiously extending the boundaries of mass timber construction, having completed some of the largest modern timber buildings in the world, including The Wood Innovation Design Centre and T3 Minneapolis. He is also the founder of DBR | Design Build Research and TOE | Timber Online Education, a non-profit school and research platform dedicated to teaching the design and construction of socially, culturally and environmentally relevant student-led installations with a focus in systemic change in building for climate, environment, disaster and global shelter needs.
8 min |
April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Biomimicry – Design That Sustains All Life
Prashant Dhawan is the co-founder of Biomimicry India Lab and Studio as well as the Biomimicry India Network. Biomimicry India has been and is actively involved in spreading the knowledge of biomimicry and has organised and conducted biomimicry talks, workshops and courses at various schools, colleges, corporate offices and conferences as well as ‘open to all’ talks and workshops across India. Prashant prefers to see himself as an amateur researcher of ‘sustainable happiness’.
5 min |
April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
361 Degrees Design Conference 2019: Designing For The Future
14 th & 15 th February 2019, Nehru Centre Auditorium, Mumbai
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April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Abstractions, Illustrations Ideas: Influence Of Indian Architecture In Fantasy
Abstraction is an unreal and intangible idea. It detached and extracted from the object, reshaped and recreated. The following essay and illustrations capture an architect’s attempt to dissociate him from the objectivity of function, building, creation and other compartmentalised aspects of architectural practice. The first feature of a 3-part series looks at the influence of his childhood, education, practice and their manifestation into abstract ideas. It takes away the implied meaning attributed to the everyday and adds layers of fantasy, inspiration and unravels the working of an artist’s mind and being.
2 min |
June 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Ultratech Recognizes India's Promising Engineers & Architects At 'India Next' 2017
Mumbai, 28th April 2017: UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group company awarded stalwarts of the construction industry at the ‘India Next’ awards evening.
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June 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
4 min |
April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Ultratop System – Versatility and Resistance
From industrial settings to museums: functional flooring in line with the latest trends in contemporary design.
3 min |
April 2019
Indian Architect & Builder
Reimagining The Classics
Redesigning Guggenheim Museum, New York City: Prof. Percy Pithawala and his team bag the top honor at international ideas competition to redesign Guggenheim museum in New York City.
4 min |
NOVEMBER 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
Sustainable Bricks
Paper Bricks are a sustainable and efficient solution for design and offer a range of possible products.
1 min |
December 2016
Indian Architect & Builder
Making Of An Aerotropolis
In the wake of transit-oriented development in contemporary times, airports are increasingly becoming the focal point around which urban development is planned. architectureRED’s Salalah Airport City Project reiterates this phenomenon, pointing at the emergence of the aerotropolis as the future of cities.
5 min |
June 2017
Indian Architect & Builder
Professor Mahesh Tandon
Professor Mahesh Tandon of ‘Tandon Consultants’ is one of India’s leading structural engineers.
4 min |