Indian Architect & Builder
Vibrant Spaces For Learning And Living
YWCA Campus in Dwarka, New Delhi.Designed by Morphogenesis, the YWCA Campus in Dwarka, New Delhi provides its residents and students a safe ‘home away from home’ space that is open yet private, and invokes a strong sense of belonging.
3 min |
December 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
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.
2 min |
December 2018
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 |
December 2018
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 |
December 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
Creating Attractive Urban Design
How can India and the Netherlands collaborate in the sector?
5 min |
December 2018
Indian Architect & Builder
A Case Of Serious Play
Maya Somaiya Library, Kopargaon, MaharashtraThe Maya Somaiya Library’s most captivating feature and function perhaps lie outside and above it. And it is not only the interesting feature and the form that captivates but also the opposing theories and arguments that the structure articulates through its design and construction. Arising from limited opportunities but expected to address multi-fold educational challenges, the library is a metaphor that establishes ideas, raises certain pertinent questions on the local-global conflict and raises the bar on how much more a building (and building-programme) can be, beyond the functions attributed to it.
4 min |
December 2018
Arts Illustrated
Natural Lessons Of Differences
The magic of trees, open skies, meandering rivers, thick forests, playful gardens with visual bridges through it – all these can teach us to look at the variegated patterns of life in the colours of nature.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
The Serial Effect
Despite the ubiquitous appeal of ‘saasbahu’ family dramas on television and their influence on fashion, they remain excluded from ‘elite’ fashion as the comparatively unrefined sartorial pleasures of the masses.
6 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
This Side, That Side
In Search of Dariya Sagar might be about the Sindhi community’s Partition trauma, but with its questions of identity, communal baggage, fear and shame, it could well be the story of the human condition today.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
The Subtle Art Of Influence
A walk through the architecture firm Mancini Enterprises brings with it not just the age-old charm of architecture but also questions of its influence within personal and societal narratives.
5 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
The Middle Ground
An applied artist by education, a print-maker at heart, Amit Kumar Jain always wanted to be an artist. It was only after two attempts at the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad), one at the Faculty of Fine Arts (Vadodara), and three at the College of Art (New Delhi), that he could pursue his dream. Passionate about modern and contemporary art, as-well-as living traditions of India, he calls himself a middle-class collector, with a modest aim to “bust the notion that only big monies can buy art”. I met him at his Noida home, when he was in between jobs after leaving his role of Associate Vice President with Saffronart (the largest Indian auction house) to join the upcoming Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru as the Head of Exhibitions.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
In Two Minds
From psychologically sensitive biopics to farcical comedies, cinema is forever engaged with the idea of fractured identities.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
Mapping It Out
Maps divide, and put us in our place, literally. But they are also an integral part of our identity and can be a beautiful and peaceful study of lines, forms, textures and space.
3 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
Bridging The Gap
The G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture situated in a reconstructed warehouse is more than just a venue; it is a space where innovation and collaboration come together to find expression.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
Arts Illustrated
Beyond The Wall
Prayaag Akbar’s debut novel Leila forces us to recognise the walls we’ve built, both in our minds and in our societies, and ask ourselves honest questions about why we guard them so tenaciously.
4 min |
December 2018 - January 2019
CULTURAMA
Following The Heart
THERE ARE PEOPLE OF NON-INDIAN ORIGIN WHO HAVE ADOPTED THE INDIAN PERFORMING ARTS AS THEIR OWN. WE TALK TO A FEW TO SEE WHAT DREW THEM TO IT, THE CHALLENGES IN PURSUING IT AND THE JOY THEY DERIVED FROM IT
7 min |
December 2018
CULTURAMA
A New Dimension To Shopping
FABINDIA LAUNCHES TWO EXPERIENCE CENTERS IN CHENNAI!
1 min |
December 2018
Domus India
The Silence Of Our Gods
Silence is not only a passive condition but a creative opportunity to construct our space, our representations and ourselves.
3 min |
November 2018
Domus India
The Demon's Tears: Water And Worship At Lonar
Formed due to the impact of a meteorite, the Lonar Lake — located in the Buldhana district of Maharashtra — is surrounded by numerous temples, a majority of them in ruins. These temples are probably a reminder of the eternal cycle of life and death, and of the essential sacredness of the site, over the lake itself.
6 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Somaya & Kalappa Consultants It Campus For Tata Consultancy Services Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Designed with water bodies and plenty of green areas, an IT campus in Indore seeks inspiration from the river Narmada that flows through Madhya Pradesh.
10+ min |
November 2018
Domus India
Sen Kapadia Architect Bhavsar House Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The role of the architect as an artist and designer is very firmly yet weightlessly articulated in the almost sculptural design of a house.
1 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Sen Kapadia Architect NID Post-Graduate Campus Gandhinagar, Gujarat
A project from the office of architect Sen Kapadia — a campus for an academic institution in Gandhinagar — aims for monumentality through enduring spatial values rather than exaggerated scale.
6 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Le Corbusier's Journey To The East
Taking stock of a collection of letters, columns, and notes, a book on Le Corbusier records the iconic architect’s observations during his many peregrinations.
5 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Robin Hood Gardens Disappearing Worlds
The film by Urban-Think Tank reminds us that the Smithsons’s ideas about the ties between buildings, users and architectural sites no longer have the value they once did.
3 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Djibouti. Flexibility And Tribal Values
In the Horn of Africa, the idea of the home often takes the form of an open space; the house is a place of collective appropriation.
2 min |
November 2018
Domus India
A Confluence Of Cultures
Spanning a period of over a million years, a recently concluded exhibition comprising over 200 invaluable objects chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent against the backdrop of what was happening concurrently across the world. It encapsulates the idea of syncretism in the many stories shared by India with other nations through the predominant tropes of early civilisations, trade, faith, empires, and the quest for freedom, among others.
5 min |
November 2018
Domus India
V&A Dundee Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma’s architecture creates relationships, flows and circulation. The V&A Dundee acts like a gate between river and city
5 min |
November 2018
Domus India
Steven Holl Let's Start From Music
Architecture, like music, surrounds and engulfs us: it's an immersive, engrossing experience. A conversation between Steven Holl and Michele De Lucchi.
3 min |
October 2018
Domus India
Renzo Piano Building Workshop GES-2, V-A-C Foundation Moscow
The institution devoted to contemporary Russian art has commissioned the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to convert a two-hectare urban site into a cultural centre. GES-2 is now an open-air building site. Forty years after the inauguration of Centre Georges Pompidou, how does one design a “non-museum”?
5 min |
October 2018
CULTURAMA
Harbingers Of Prosperity
There Is a Common, Mistaken Perception That Money Is a Man’s Game. However, Women Are Not Just Adept at Handling Their Individual or Home’s Finances, They Have the Ability to Stretch and Grow Scarce Resources and Use Them for the Greater Good
4 min |