atArchitecture is a Mumbai-based practice founded by Avneesh Tiwari and Neha Rane in 2014. Encompassing architecture, Landscape, and urban design, the firm focuses on providing comprehensive solutions, by maintaining an optimum balance between a rational approach and intuitive thinking. Over the past Seven years, the team has built a portfolio of highly acclaimed projects in the residential, cultural and institutional domains. In 2018, the practice won the prestigious ‘Affordable Housing Design Challenge’ organised by the BTI, United Nations (UNDP Cambodia). Their winning entry, to skilfully accommodate 3000 residential units for factory workers in Phnom Penh, is currently underway. In the same year, the firm was awarded winners of a highly competitive two stage international design competition organized by the Ministry of Russia to provide ‘Alternative Layouts in Standard Housing’ and help create more comfortable living environments for all by redefining the form of Russian housing.
In 2017, their project ‘Home for marginalised children’ in Thane, Maharashtra won the renowned ‘Lafarge Holcim Awards Gold, Asia Pacific’. This awards foundation, established in Switzerland, promotes innovative sustainable projects from around the globe. Recently the firm placed 2nd in the competition for the UNESCO Reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Al Nouri complex in Mosul followed by 3rd place for ‘The learning home’ for children with special needs in Bulgaria on 2019.
Key Works by atArchitecture
