Ranjit Sabikhi’s Reflections on Evolution of Delhi’s Space Offer a Window Into Urban Design

March 19, 2021 No Comments

Ranjit Sabikhi, the author of the book, A Sense of Space, The Crisis of Urban Design in India, belongs to that generation of architects and urban designers who have witnessed the transformation of the Indian city from the years immediately after Independence to the mega-metropolis that we now inhabit. In New Delhi, his city of residence for the last six decades, Sabikhi has, through both the written word and the built work, drawn from and commented on, the complexity of India’s historical and contemporary urban agglomerations.

APDS salon, at New Delhi, by RLDA STUDIO Architects

January 23, 2021 No Comments

The ten thousand square foot beauty salon is a combination of mezzanine spaces (used for speciality treatments and offices) and double height purpose-built cabins interspersed with a series of glass planes with graphic motifs. These elements, individually varied and collectively orchestrated define spaces that provide for the varying degrees of privacy needed in a beauty salon. – RLDA STUDIO

Central Vista Redevelopment - Rahoul Singh

Off The Cuff: Have We Lost Our Vista? – Interim Thoughts On A Work In Progress – Rahoul B. Singh

October 23, 2020 No Comments

As a nation we are about to embark on democratic India’s most symbolic project – the re-development of New Delhi’s central vista. The central vista and it’s precinct is approximately three kilometre long and stretches from Rahstrapati Bhawan on the west to India Gate on the east. The redevelopment of this tract of land and other land parcels adjoining it will cost the exchequer upwards of Rs. 20,000 crore and is being undertaken to commemorate 75 years of India’s Independence in 2022. Other objectives of the project include increasing the productivity and efficiency of the government and expanding and improving the quality of public space that falls within its immediate precinct. – Rahoul B. Singh

Off the Cuff: A Battle Over a War Museum – Rahoul Singh | RLDA

June 7, 2018 2 Comments

I was deeply saddened when I read Shreya Roy Chowdhury’s article, “Bitter battle over design leaves India’s planned National War Museum in limbo”. It was published on the website https://scroll.in/article/880837/bitter-battle-over-design-leaves-indias-planned-national-war-museum-in-limbo on the 31st of May,2018 and while I would encourage everyone to read it, it is with a sense of shame.

Off the Cuff: How Crafting Architecture Builds Economic Resilience in the Construction Industry – Rahoul Singh

February 28, 2018 1 Comment

Rahoul Singh: Architecture represents the crafts collective – a number of different craftsmen collectively contribute to the built work, each bearing the imprint of a particular trade. Unfortunately, seldom do they or their communities get acknowledged for their contribution. This, at the outset, is the first step in eroding the identity of a people associated with a particular trade and by extension region, but it gets worse.

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Ranjit Sabikhi’s Reflections on Evolution of Delhi’s Space Offer a Window Into Urban Design

APDS salon, at New Delhi, by RLDA STUDIO Architects

Off The Cuff: Have We Lost Our Vista? – Interim Thoughts On A Work In Progress – Rahoul B. Singh

Off the Cuff: A Battle Over a War Museum – Rahoul Singh | RLDA

Off the Cuff: How Crafting Architecture Builds Economic Resilience in the Construction Industry – Rahoul Singh

Off the Cuff: If its Not Political Its Not Design – Rahoul Singh

Atali Ganga – Resort at Rishikesh by RLDA, Rahoul Singh and Lakshmi Chand

From a Hall of Nations to a Pile of Rubble – Will the Phoenix rise? Article by Rahoul B. Singh

Honeymoon Inn, Mandi, Rahoul Singh | Lakshmi Chand Singh – RLDA Studio

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