Category featuring the architectural and design projects from top architects in India. Architecture in India featured through an array of works from different typologies and contexts by popular architects in India.
In Ukraine’s fight to defend itself against the Russian invasion, the social function of spaces changed. Six months into the invasion, we now look at the other casualty of this war-Architecture. -Megha Pande | ArchitectureLive!
House on a Farm is a vacation home designed by Architecture_Interspace in Tamil Nadu’s village, Kurumbagaram. The house’s design involves the use of materials evoking the simplicity of rural life. The design philosophy is a mix of rustic themes based on the idea of living with nature and contemporary finishes to enable comfortable work-from-home weekends.
The India Pavillion is one of the largest pavilions at the Dubai Expo 2020, at par with the country pavilions of USA and China. Amongst the three pavilions that are retained for posterity in Dubai’s legacy phase as an Indian centre, the pavilion’s outer façade is designed using kinetic architecture which celebrates India’s 75 years of Independence through storytelling while instilling emotions of pride and enthusiasm.
The house, designed for a single old lady and her tenants was devised as a free plan around a central courtyard. The levels & accesses were carefully divided between the lady and the tenants to allow comfort & privacy.
Designed for a family of six, the project constitutes of two interconnected duplex apartments. Daylight, ventilation, interconnectedness and privacy inform the design of this house by Studio Lotus in a dense part of the Panchsheel Enclave neighbourhood in Delhi..
The house is designed to comfortably accommodate three families over 4 floors, 2 single level homes and a duplex, with careful consideration given to climatic conditions and comfort factors. Its form is generated as a response to the site, its orientation, the client requirements to build to the maximum permissible envelope of the site and the local building bye-laws.
Set along the backdrop of an existing water body and overlooking a football field, the project by Abin Design Studio, is a community club that maximizes its unique physical context. The project treads lightly in response to its picturesque context where the narrow strip of land is reclaimed to create a responsible waterfront development.
The client’s brief called for a garage structure with staff quarters, but for Abin Design Studio, Gallery House was a project with the potential to serve its local community. Inspired by the way the building was shaping, the client embraced the suggestion of providing a community hall and a multipurpose room, instead of the initial plan of having a garage built.
The brief was to create a home enclosing all the necessary elements for a young couple. The plot area was 408 sqft. Based on the area, the first priority was given to space efficiency at the micro level as much possible.
The overall experience of this net-zero art installation is to demonstrate a transcendental journey of freedom, agony and joy in childhood! Globally, children are going through a crisis brought on by being pushed to mould themselves into society’s preconceived notions of education and lifestyle.
The design of the Alma Mater School celebrates Jodhpur’s traditional crafts and artisans. The partnership with Hunnarshala Foundation was to develop a campus that represents their values and helps create creative opportunities for learning and teaching.
A matter of Perspective? The PM’s unveiling of the National Emblem atop the new Parliament building has again placed the controversial Central Vista Redevelopment project into the spotlight. – Megha Pande | ArchitectureLive!
Restoration by RMA Architects: The Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, is situated on an estate in the historic district of Shahibaug in Ahmedabad.
Creating a Queens Entrance – Mayank Pandey uses Christopher Alexander’s Design Principals from Nature of Order, for renovating a powder room.
Thesis: Urban Insert: Bringing back the social mobility into the neighbourhood of Noida Sector 94, by Preeti Wadhera
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