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.

Tailored By Design

Amidst obstinate terrains and with limited resources, a school emerges discreetly within a disorganised urban fabric. The architecture cuts across socio-economic challenges, budget constraints and heritage legislations but respects each with equanimity.

Leisure In The New Age

The design of the CoFuFun plaza is the result of a unique spatial element that brings about the character of leisure in a space seemingly effortlessly. This spatial element is the adaptation of a built form of a spiritual nature that has been reinvented for recreation.

Architecture For An Emergent Landscape

Architecture in India – an emerging nation still in a state of architectural flux – presents a world of exciting opportunities, as well as overwhelming challenges. Do we look to the future and modernize, or draw from the rich traditions of the past? Do we concentrate on affordability, or invest in high-end, futuristic building technologies? And where does that leave sustainability?Working in this dramatically dynamic context, Manit and Sonali Rastogi have taken to nature’s design-book for inspiration – for a design philosophy that shapes their firm Morphogenesis. In this interview, Manit Rastogi talks about everything architecture – right from the need to develop a ‘Brand India’ design identity, to how architecture is more of a state of being than merely a profession.

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.

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.

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.

The Icon And The City

Sattva Galleria - Office cum Retail Building, Batarayanapura, Bengaluru.

Happy Spaces For Happy Faces

ResQ, Chandni Chowk, PuneDesigned by Studio Osmosis for the ResQ Charitable Trust, the ResQ Outhouse is a multi-purpose space from where the trust can continue rescue and rehabilitation of injured and sick animals, conducting awareness and education programs and conservation of the environment. A pro-bono project, it is a reminder of what our world could be if we all put more heart, and empathy, into everything we do.

Of Fins, Facades And Fenestrations

Filtered Light, Mumbai, MaharashtraSemantics can either make or mar annotation. Take for example the semantics of grills and ‘jaalis’. While the former is an obstruction, the latter has been a muse of light, shadow and its poetics. When faced with a mandate to provide a grill on the façade of their architectural studio, MuseLAB married the function of a grill with the expressions of a ‘jaali’.

Sustainable Bricks

Paper Bricks are a sustainable and efficient solution for design and offer a range of possible products.

Sound In Schools

Sound in schools is damaging millions of children’s health and education. Architects have the power to change this.

The Subtleties Of Aesthetics - Muraba Residences, Dubai

An ideal mix of functional beauty infused with serene elegance, Muraba Residences in Dubai by Priztker Laurates Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes are timeless, artistic living spaces. Envisioned as a watch tower, the project not only overlooks the sea but also makes it a part of the overall living experience by maintaining a constant visual link.

Modest Interactions

Designed by Architecture BRIO, the house is an inconspicuous intervention in the natural landscape of the Western Ghats.

Camouflaged Within Sunset Chapel, Mexico

The project by Bunker Arquitectura by justifies its context, natural terrain and functional purposes disguising itself exquisitely into the surround.

Emergence From The Dense Traps

This photo essay captures the evolving architectural elements involved in the lanes of Nashik captured by photographer Samruddha Mogal.

Mr. Vijay Wadhwa - On Design Principles And Buildings

In Conversation with Mr. Vijay Wadhwa – Chairman, The Wadhwa Group discussing his recent experience as the first speaker representing the developer community at 361 Degree Design Conference’2017 edition. On what makes the Wadhwa Group’s buildings stand out and future of architecture education.

A Local Response To Climate Change

For the design of the community centre, vernacular techniques have been hybridized with low-tech innovations to improve building performance with a maximum use of local materials.

Embracing Traditional Ideologies

Chaukor Studio has designed a house that goes back to traditional practices for addressing the challenges of the local climate and context.

American White Oak Helps To Achieve Seamless Spatial Flow In Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center

As part of the former Soviet Union, the urbanism and architecture of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, was heavily influenced by the planning of that era. Since its independence in 1991, Azerbaijan has invested heavily in modernizing and developing Baku’s infrastructure and architecture, departing from its legacy of normative Soviet Modernism.

down?

we have seen it all.

density in urbanism

cities are places where human beings live close to each other.

humane, sustainable and timeless indian urbanism - jaipur

cities are the complex organisms and they can only be evaluated through their performance over centuries and their adaptation of changing times.

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.

Professor Mahesh Tandon

Professor Mahesh Tandon of ‘Tandon Consultants’ is one of India’s leading structural engineers.

Regional influence on Contemporary Design

An environmental edifice built by Malik Architecture amalgamates regional architecture using modern manifestations of materials, design strategies and preservation.

Succinct Ideas and Pertinent Ways

Architect Stephane Paumier in conversation with IA&B puts forth his views on the state and role of architecture and design in the context of modern day India.