The 450 sq yards house, sits in the dense metroscape of Delhi which has been designed for a business family comprising of three generations. The main brief provided by the client was to keep the rooms spacious and luxurious and at the same time use of the ample natural light.
After reading Prem Chandavarkar’s article about the true meaning of Heritage, PMO decides to rebuild the Hall of Nations in its original form.
ArchitectureLive! and (National Association for Students of Architecture, India) NASA, India have entered an MoU to make internships and jobs easier for students and fresh architects in India.
India’s leading architectural practice signs up with the Trump Organisation to design Trump Tower in Gurgaon.
‘When is Space?’ intends to investigate the contemporary modes and methods of architecture and space making practices in India. Through provocations that emerge from ideas of Sawai Jai Singh and Charles Correa, the exhibition invites artists and architects to respond through spatial interventions within JKK.
Exhibition of selected works of S.P.A Design, Stephane Paumier
I wonder why things have degraded and turned so disagreeable. Had Contractor embarked the ethical path, and possessed the scarce merit or the genius unparalleled, the world would have had made his time a very precious commodity. A genuine high projects-oriented mobility for Hafeez would have afforded him a ‘plane ownership’ long ago (what we introduced jovially in the beginning, arguably becomes a potent yardstick of a professional’s indispensability!).
Studio Symbiosis, the architecture firm led by Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta, has won the international design competitions for two railways stations in India – Bangalore (Baiyappanahalli) train station along with Masterplan, and Gwalior Railway Station.
RTI reply from the Council of Architecture India reveals that there are more women studying architecture, and there is zero representation of the third gender in the profession.
IRSDC (Indian Railways Station Development Corporation) has invited applications from architects/planners/enginners to prepare Concept Master Plans at zero cost. Their website says,
Laurie Baker – Architect for the Common Man, an interview with Gautam Bhatia
Vistára – The Architecture of India – Introduction by Charles Correa, the book features the talks by B.V.Doshi, Achyut Kanvinde, M.J.P Mistri and Le Corbusier.
The aim of the conference, by Poornima University is to give importance and understand the regional strengths in architecture and to create awareness about the indigenous urban and rural habitat. Even as we march forward in time, we cannot afford to forget or let go of our ancestral knowledge bank, which is rich with solutions for the problems arising in design and architecture in the current times. It has often been seen that the best sustainable solutions in architecture, emerge from local and traditional wisdom.
All designed objects, whether conceived by an architect, artist, graphic designer, industrial designer, or landscape architect, tell a story. Their stories can sometimes be discerned
Central Vista Redevelopment: INTACH, ISOLA and IUDI release a joint statement.
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