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Cocoon is apt name for this extension of Bloomingdale International School's campus in Vijayawada, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The undulating roof partly covered in turf recalls the form of cocoons, while the architects at andblack design studio thought of the building...
Studio Saar, an architecture practice with office in England and India, recently completed a new learning and cultural center in Udaipur, Rajasthan for Dharohar, a nonprofit organization working with schools and volunteers to provide extra-curricular activities in the area. Studio Saar sent us...
Studio Sangath, the Ahmedabad studio of Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, employs 15 architects from across India. They work on houses, building conversions, and various extensions to existing buildings, and they design art installations, exhibitions, lighting, furniture, and books....
While India has a population of 1.4 billion and nearly 50 cities with at least one million people, the country is predominantly rural. Evidence of this can be seen in the Nokha Village Community Centre designed by
In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Abin Chaudhuri, the Kolkata-based architect talks about buildings having a soul, never simply following the brief, engaging local crafters, turning every project into a discovery, and believing in the architecture of generosity.
Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR), which was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and opened to passengers last year, recently received a special prize from Prix Versailles for its stunning bamboo-lattice interior.
Number of affordable housing units needed to meet India’s growing urban population — expected to reach 600 million by...
The third edition of The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India, is on display within the courtyard and apartments of the 19th-century palace until December 1, 2023. Among the fourteen contributors is
The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore is celebrating its grand opening on February 18, 2023. The museum is housed in a five-story building designed by Mathew & Ghosh Architects.
Dr. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, the recipient of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2022 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and other honors, died in Ahmedabad, India, on January 24, 2023, at the age of 95.
Reports this week indicate that the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) is reversing course and will not preserve the dormitories designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1974.
Designed on a small corner plot of a residential villa layout, Mirai is a contextual house in response to the hot desert climate of Rajasthan, India.
Cost of a 2,000-square-foot (186 m2) house with three furnished bedrooms and attached bathrooms in the small Indian...
Indian culture is known for its vivid use of color in traditional crafts, festivities, and clothing. India is the only country that annually celebrates Holi, a festival of color. Three of the most vivid primary colors — red, blue, and yellow — highlight the cantilevered balconies of each room,...
The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985 presents notable post-Independence buildings and projects in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka through a variety of media: drawings, photographs, videos, publications and other documents, and...
Emerging architecture practice Studio Saar has completed a purpose-built industrial facility for Indian multi-national electronics manufacturer Secure Meters in Sanand, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat famed for automobile manufacture.
Reduction of the price of 300 homes in the federal state of Maharashtra, India, resulting from the...
The Indian Himalayas, a steep mountain landscape through which the sacred Ganges River meanders, is a nature that supersedes all human construction. For the development of the hotel complex Taj Rishikesh, it was this modesty in face of the grandiosity of the place that guided our...
In response to a very specific brief, this housing project has 126 apartments in six buildings of eleven stories. The large landscaped area rises in angular planes revealing a partially subterranean recreational club.
Imbibing the organic character of Indian villages and old cities, the Rajasthan School is a low-rise three-story school with open, enclosed, and semi-enclosed spaces of various volumes.
The owner of the development wanted a clearly discernible office space of 500 square meters. Angular folded planes create this office, set back from the road junction at the north-west corner, punctuating the rectilinear composition of the rest of the building.
Lucknow city in India has a rich heritage with numerous buildings dating back to the 18th century. The site for this house lies along a busy arterial road and is on the peripheral edge of an extensive plotted development for private homes. Patterned screens derived from traditional Indian...
With the exhibition Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first retrospective on the complete work of the Indian architect outside of Asia. In 2018, Doshi became the first architect from India to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
New York's Weiss/Manfredi has released renderings of their masterplan for the 28-acre U.S. Embassy campus in India, more than sixty years after Edward Durell Stone designed the Chancery there.
Since opening an office in Ahmedabad ten years ago Stuttgart's blocher partners has realized a trio of projects in the Indian city. Most recent is Mondeal Heights, an office complex comprised of two towers covered in a prefabricated concrete facade.
This is a private home in Ahmedabad, is an expression in Dhrangadhra stone. The stone used in many of the architectural antiquities of Ahmedabad. The stone has a mottled texture and bone coloration, available in blocks; slabs and dust from quarries nearby it became an obvious choice.
Last week, 90-year-old Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi was named the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession’s highest honor. Here we highlight three of Doshi’s masterpieces: a university realized over five decades; low-cost housing; and his own...
The party wall office adapts an aging, dingy row house to create a narrow new work space full of light.
Taking a cue from the old city streets of Mathura city in India where this project is located, this 800 room students’ hostel creates organic spaces.
Through the Artisan House project, Morphogenesis looks to revive and re-establish a patronage for traditional Indian artisanal skills.
The Architectural League of New York has announced the two recipients of the Deborah J. Norden Fund travel grants: Kevin Malawski and Indian-Architects curator Priyanka Shah.
City Collaborative – the multidisciplinary team of sP+a Sameep Padora & Associates, Ratan J. Batliboi Architects, Schlaich Bergermann Partner, and Ladybird Environmental Consulting – has won the international competition for the redesign of Maharashtra Nature Park and design of a...
Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the seven-acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site.
Situated on an undulating site in the deserts of Ras, Rajasthan, India, Studios 18 apartments are a part of an entire layout spread over 36 acres.
They say there is only one life and so one must live it fully. The Katyal family epitomizes this philosophy to the core and clearly expects its design home to showcase it just as flamboyantly.