Learning Tree

“While a designer’s work is as creative as an artist’s, the challenge for our profession is ever greater. We have to visualize something new every time, aligned with the thoughts and likes of the end user – the client. When the true vision of both sides amalgamates, a final outcome shapes into reality, be it space or a product.” With this design insight Ar. Alhad Gore creates Globant, Pune, deriving inspiration from nature interwoven with a modern theme.

Design For A Collaborative Work Culture

In our modern attitude towards work ethos, ‘collaboration’ is the key for efficiency in the workplace. Here’s an office space, with design strategies to inspire positive and collaborative work culture. Rajeev Sathe, the architect uses sepia tones together with minimalistic modern furniture, to create a warm and welcoming office environment, while bringing in a ‘touch of hygge’.

IIID Excellence Awards - The Voyage

The IIID Design Excellence Awards 2017, supported by Anchor by Panasonic, recently concluded with a grand awards function – an occasion to celebrate design with designers, at Geoffery Bawa’s Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka.

‘Vaanar Sena' In Sri Lanka

This Vaanar Sena arrived on the exotic island, Ceylon on the 26 th March, also Ram Navmi as per a significant Lunar Calendar.

IIID Showcase'18 @ Indore

IIID Indore Regional Centre organised IIID Showcase from 22 nd -25 th February 2018, ‘to establish a common link between the trade members, suppliers, retailers, manufacturers, service providers, design fraternity as well as discerning consumers’.

A Meaningful Intervention

Dhananjay Shinde Design Studio, an award-winning firm based in Nashik, restored a structure that was unused and in a dilapidated state for the past decade. The structure dates back to the 1920’s. It was a boarding school for Maratha Vidya Prasarak, one of the oldest and largest private education institutes of Maharashtra. The span of time and rough use had taken its toll on the structure. The management wanted to enhance the restoration with an efficient design team. A meaningful intervention was planned with an approach towards preserving the history and reviving the heritage.

Tetrisception: A Design Renaissance For The Young Minds

The belief to provide learning environment through the built form has seen the inception of Tetrisception- a preschool which makes learning fun again. Designed by Renesa Architecture Design Interiors Studio, the design process of the pre-school involved revamping Maple Bear India preschool to create a built tetrisized environment for enabling and catalysing the nurture of the young minds of pre-school students.

Education Beyond Boxes

Designed by Ar. Tushar Kothawade and Ar. Chiranjivi Lunkad of Studio Infinity, ‘The Outdoor Classroom’, provides pre-primary children a safe haven away from the comforts of home, to explore, learn, and grow, while challenging the conventional ‘boxed’ classroom and reflecting the changing face of contemporary education.

Unbound: A Library Under The Shade Of Knowledge

Envisioned as a place for celebrating the act of reading and freedom as an expression, a place where knowledge is free and ‘unbound’, a place where knowledge is empowerment, the pavilion ‘Unbound: Library of Lost books’ was designed at the Salvador Segui Square of Barcelona, Spain. Primarily programmed with a live-program of ‘reading’, ‘Unbound’ designed by Anupama Kundoo Architects furnishes an innovative approach in public library design which highlights the theme of liberty and the limitless nature of knowledge.

A Crafted, Contextual, A D Contemporary Practice

SJK Architects, set up and led by Ar. Shimul Javeri Kadri, is soon about to complete its third decade of practice. It strives to create architecture that is meaningful and exciting for the contemporary Indian built landscape, while drawing from historical wisdom.

Coworking Communities

Nisha Mathew Ghosh designs two very distinct yet community-oriented spaces, one is a training and research centre of a reputed hospital and the other a compact coworking space.

A Contemporary Confluence of History, Heritage and Interiors

India has a wealth of underutilised heritage buildings that provide unique and exciting opportunities to develop and revitalise. In the ensemble, industry virtuosos champion their vision of transforming and celebrating this restoration, conservation and adaptive re-use of historic forts to dilapidated structures.

Conservation of Community Housing

Cama Building at Murzban Colony in Mumbai

Temple in Stone and Light, Barmer

India has a glorious history of temple architecture.

Mahaprasthanam – A Hindu Crematorium

The client Phoenix Foundation with the local Municipal Corporation commissioned the studio with the task of evolving a state-of-the-art crematorium from the neglected 3.7 acre existing crematory/cemetery envisaged to accommodate the Hindu cremation rituals, culturally and contextually.

Ramanarayanam Pranganam: A Vision to Create a Spiritual Leisure Space – Anchuri Design World

An industrialist and a visionary Late Shri Narayanam Narasimha Murthy, Founder Chairman of NCS Group, was looking to create a Spiritual theme park for leisure that would convey the epic of Ramayana in a simple yet comprehensive way to the common man.

Raw sensual Timeless

Popularly chronicled in the 20th century for its brutal honesty and expression, exposed concrete has always been championed by yesteryear designers. With advancement in technology, revolutionary surface treatments, expansive scale and the ability to merge with a diverse material pallet, concrete is now being used in unexpected and versatile ways.

Artrovert: Conversations in Grey

The recently concluded Artrovert design studio by Anagram Architects enumerates their characteristic collaborative approach, deeply contextual designs and sustainable aesthetics. The award winning design practice helmed by Madhav Raman and Vaibhav Dimri, has once again pushed the envelope by creating an artistic pièce de résistance in distressed concrete.

Celebrating the Legacy of Nakashima: Exhibition & Symposium

There is a special feeling to working with this wood. You realise how long these trees have lived, and it places you in a kind of upstart position. In their presence, you feel humility instead of that arrogance that wants to conquer nature.” 

Evolving Trend Of Crafts In Interiors

Since time immemorial craft has been a part and parcel of the life and culture of the people of India.

Crafts: Past Forward

Integrating hand skills into architecture and design

Kerala Sutra - A Collection Of Inimitable Lights

Kerala Sutra is an endeavour to involve the community and revive their traditions. The key theme of this design project has been to re-discover, re-interpret and represent traditional objects & craft practices of Kerala to create unique pieces of both function and art, linked through a common thread, of being a light source. Discover this journey of illumination.

Commerce Of Crafts

Conserve, curate, collaborate and create

Illuminating Personal Choices

Every room in your house can be magically transformed through carefully curated lighting. With strategically employed lighting techniques you can enhance the ambience of a space and the purpose it serves. Discover below, the secret tips and tricks of quality lighting to fit any home decor.

Defining Design Cutting Through Method And Madness

Dr. Prof. S. Badrinarayanan explores the trends in architecture, interiors, and design where the intent follows a comprehensive process, and where it is just a mere imitation. In a world of textured wallpapers and false ceilings, he advocates the need to find the ‘middle-path’ to design.

Give Time A Break

With his words of wisdom and introspection, Pritzker prize laureate B.V. Doshi discusses the role of architecture in giving a new dimension not just to a space, but also to time. This story takes us through his intent and his idea of how more than the built, it is the unbuilt spaces in an architectural expanse that link the visual with the emotional, psychological and spiritual being of the dweller or visitor. This thought-provoking read is a must for all designers and architects to imbibe a sense of ambiguity in the definition of design.

A Snazzy Abode

Amit Porwal believes that design is deeper than self-belief; and standing true to his belief is this opulent abode. Revamped to meet the envisions and needs of its inhabitants, this residence in Mumbai is not only contemporary and chic, but also personifies luxury and grandeur.

Samsung Library And Ideation Hub: A Unison Of Collaboration And Contemplation

‘Vyom’ in Sanskrit means an infinite, limitless space. Delving into the design of the undefined space, VYOM, a leading architecture firm from New Delhi, has designed the Samsung Library and Ideation Hub in Noida. Fostering a vibrant unison of collaboration and contemplation, the library and ideation hub sets itself apart as a distinct benchmark in the domain of library spaces.

Green Industrial Dynamism

Designing an industrial campus is equally challenging like any other built- forms; it is not just a block of buildings that are bleak in appearance. Elcom International Pvt. Ltd., an exporter and manufacturer of electronic components and consumer products, approached Beri Urban & Environmental Planners LLP (BBUEP), with a complete rebranding strategy, to conceive and design a green industrial and research facility. The Elcom campus is tactfully designed blending in perfect geometry of forms and sustainable principles.

H & R Johnson launches ‘Johnson International' with Brand Ambassador – Katrina Kaif

H & R Johnson (India), leaders in the ceramic industry, today launched their new and innovative range of premium sanitaryware and faucets – Johnson International – at Park Regis in Goa.