AD Architectural Digest India
THE ANATOMY OF TYPOGRAPHY
The boundaries between art, design and craft are rarely fixed in India.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AD new wave
The boundaries between architecture, interiors, craft and object design have rarely felt more porous than today.
6 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
THROUGH TWO SPECIAL LIGHTING SERIES, SOFT-GEOMETRY BRINGS BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.
Some things seem to be universal about childhood memory: that first four-petal flower we drew; the ribbon-tied pigtails that marked our early years.
1 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
FRENCH DESIGNER NOÉ DUCHAUFOUR-LAWRANCE AND DIOR MAISON UNVEIL THE NEWEST EVOLUTION OF THE COROLLE LAMP.
By sculpting light through glass,\" says Noé DuchaufourLawrance, \"shadows and reflections become almost tangible.\"
1 min |
July - August 2026
Architecture + Design
THE DISCIPLINE WITI IIN DESIGN
Inside a practice that treats architecture as religion and sustainability as a habit. ACPL is crafting architecture that does its civic duty first, reshaping growth corridors through responsibility and care. Five decades after Ajit Shangari laid its foundation, this 200+ strong team, multi-city practice still designs like a young firm, treating every constraint as a brief and every project as a reason to abandon the last one's playbook. Directors Kulmeet Shangari and Jasreen Shangari trace the firm's journey, and reflect on what it means to build for Indian cities that are densifying faster than they can be designed for
10+ min |
July 2026
Architecture + Design
SECOND CITIES, FIRST CHANCES
India's second cities are growing fast.
10 min |
July 2026
Architecture + Design
WHEN LEARNING FINDS ITS PLAYGROUND
At The Big Little School, architect Aakash Saxena reimagines a modest built shell into a layered environment where play, learning, and calm coexist with ease
3 min |
July 2026
Architecture + Design
THEATRE AS URBAN GESTURE
Nashville takes center stage with new world-class Tennessee Performing Arts Center designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, William Rawn Associates (WRA) and HASTINGS Architecture
3 min |
July 2026
Architecture + Design
A HOUSE THAT WHISPERS
In this residence designed by Lijo Jos and Reny Lijo, the warmth comes not from decoration but from honest materials, the play of light and shadow, and the constant dialogue with outdoor space. Sustainability here is not a label. It is a way of building and living
3 min |
July 2026
Architecture + Design
A NEXUS FOR URBAN LIFTS SOCIALISATION
Mixed-use developments have become the blueprint for cities in India. The Eldeco Centre in Delhi, designed by Design Forum International, is an intersection — of commerce and culture, of urgency and pause
3 min |
July 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
The Eyes Whisper to the Ear: Rajeev Sethi and the Architecture of Craft Memory
Objects. Buildings. Exhibitions.
9 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AD VISITS INDIA'S CARPET CITY IN UTTAR PRADESH FOR A MASTERCLASS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF A CARPET.
With a weaving cluster of around 32 lakh people, many third- or fourth-generation artisans, Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, known as India's Carpet City, produces the vast majority of the subcontinent's handmade carpets.
2 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
ANKON MITRA FOLDS PAPERTHIN ALUMINIUM INTO A THREEDIMENSIONAL INSTALLATION AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK.
For his monumental installations over the past decade, Delhibased architect, sculptor and landscape designer Ankon Mitra has experimented with a wide variety of materials-from glass and concrete to wire mesh.
2 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
BEAUTY IS IN THE MAKING
In Tamil Nadu's historic district of Pudukkottai, we step into the world of master craftsman Palanisamy, known for his monumental terracotta Ayyanar horses rooted in the ritual traditions of the region.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
A LABORATORY IN THE GARDEN
Over three centuries ago, the Golcha family founded a pleasure garden delicately situated between the Amagarh and Jhalana hills, outside what would develop into the city of Jaipur.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
For more than three decades now, Jesmina Zeliang and her son, Aku, have worked towards documenting, preserving and reinventing Naga craft traditions for future generations through their studio in a low-lying river basin in Dimapur, Nagaland.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
THE CURATOR
Craft revivalist Laila Tyabji traces the journey of the traditional woollen dhablas of Gujarat’s Kutch into contemporary textiles.
2 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
FORTY YEARS AFTER RADO ADDED CERAMIC TO WATCHES, AD LOOKS AT ITS PROCESS IN SWITZERLAND.
This year marks 40 years since Rado introduced hightech ceramic to watchmaking.
1 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
COMPARTMENT S4 DESIGNS A HUMBLE PUBLIC CENTRE AS AN EXAMPLE OF LIVING CRAFT IN CHAMPAWAT.
In a region as fragile as the Himalayas, sustainability is often determined more by what you choose not to build.
1 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AD TALKS TO SIX ARTISTS AT THE VENICE BIENNALE WHO TURN TO AGE-OLD CRAFT TRADITIONS FOR THEIR PRACTICES.
Gbadebo's rust-hued, hand-sculpted vessels exude a certain idiosyncrasy.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
LEBANESE DESIGNER NADA DEBS TRANSFORMS AN 18TH-CENTURY TASHKENT MOSQUE TO HOUSE AN UZBEK CRAFT GALLERY.
Recent years have marked an exciting chapter for Uzbekistan's cultural renaissance as the country-once a Silk Road nexus and a Soviet industrial hub-rediscovers its heritage through a renewed lens.
2 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
AT THIS YEAR'S MILAN DESIGN WEEK, MATERIALS BECOME STORYTELLERS.
Across galleries, installations and exhibitions at the Milan Design Week, designers moved beyond conventional production methods to explore a more instinctive approach to making.
4 min |
July - August 2026
AD Architectural Digest India
KUTCH: WHERE CRAFT HOLDS ITS GROUND
You don't arrive into Kutch so much as you ease into it.
4 min |
July - August 2026
Architect and Interiors India
THOUGHTFULLY INSPIRING
This residence, crafted by Designing Cell, is an epitome of a contemporary home where mindful design, cultural rootedness and climate-responsive planning converge to reflect the lifestyle of a close-knit family.
3 min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
FASCINATING FACADES
Contemporary Indian façades are moving away from fully glazed skins toward hybrid systems that balance transparency with climate performance.
5 min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
WHY INDIA'S CONSTRUCTION FUTURE BELONGS TO AAC WALL PANELS?
Sourabh Bansal, Managing Director of Magicrete, explores how AAC wall panels are transforming India's construction landscape with faster, smarter and more sustainable building solutions.
2 min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
THE QUIET FORCE IN LUXURY DESIGN
Architect Manish Kumat from Indore has built a design language where luxury feels intimate, timeless, and unmistakably Indian.
10+ min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
SENSORIAL BATHROOMS
Today, the bathroom is no longer viewed as a purely functional room but as a personal wellness sanctuary within the home.
5 min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
CONTEMPORARY IDENTITY
A refined and functional office space by Wattieza Designs that combines modern aesthetics, warm materials, and collaborative planning to create a calm and efficient workplace.
3 min |
June 2026
Architect and Interiors India
CANOPIED JOURNEYS
Set along the Saharanpur-Dehradun Highway, The Flowing Canopy by Lines & Thoughts emerges from a client brief that called for more than a conventional roadside food court.
2 min |