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Architecture In Fluidity

Always in transformation, like much of his work, American designer Marc Thorpe looks at architecture as a medium to build relationships

Designing The Future

Architecture Ideas, the competition organised by the Festival of Architecture and Interior Designing (FOAID) is exclusively created for the gen-next in the design field. We walk you through the five projects that won in the interior design category in the FOAID 2019 edition.

Exhibition Fields of Eros and Enchantment

An ongoing exhibition of artist Bhagyashree Suthar’s works reflects her fascination with architecture and geometry, and are a play of the fantastical and the familiar. Suthar gathers images and objects from everyday life, and is familiar with the histories and contexts of drawing up futures. She is also invested in the use of mathematical constructions and abstractions towards mapping these languages of the future world. From the Fibonacci series and Fractals, Parametricism and Visionary Futures of Archigram to the drawings and models of Lebbeus Woods or the architectures of Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry — they all build a library of this investigation for Suthar. She brings into her work a whole history of humankind’s interest in shaping worlds of perfection — places of balance and cosmic as well as earthly magnificence and sublimity — utopia — something that never exists, a never-place!

The privatisation of the public realm

During the past decade Milan has hosted several stunning urban renewals, ushering in a new age of globalisation.

Worldwhite?

From the coolest to the Parthenon: the colour white in architecture has many connotations, sometimes linked to cultural prejudice.

Milan 2030: 88 squares for 88 neighbourhoods

Milan is changing. Its population reached and topped the 1.4-million mark for the first time at the start of October, when the city reported its number of inhabitants to be 1,420,000.

Indian Aesthetics The Wonders of the Konark Museum

While the Konark Temple in Odisha is admired for its architecture and iconography, the site museum, in contrast, is marked by its simplicity, focusing not on itself but on the temple. The many galleries are dotted with sculptures of gods and goddesses, apsaras and mythical creatures occupying pride of place.

Exhibition Concrete Ciphers

In his recent body of work, artist Pratap Morey filters out the hustle and bustle of the city, training his gaze instead on the massive modular blocks of construction material used for infrastructure projects. Like pieces of a Lego set, they patiently lie in wait for their moment of assembly, when according to a pre-determined plan they will neatly click into place to create a flyover or the stretch of a metro line. But for Morey, they represent concrete ciphers, waiting to be decoded and put to more imaginative use. Elevating these humdrum, banal, serial and seemingly soulless creatures of mechanical production, Morey gestures at the roles they could possibly play in creating alternate, utopian worlds.

Exhibition 1:2500 (One is to Twenty-Five Hundred)

A recent exhibition showcases how architect and artist Martand Khosla delves into the dark underbelly of urban India, where pavement dwellers wash dishes in the shadows of luxury high-rises, when the city floods during times of drought. His title refers to the scale of survey maps used to record populations, constructions and geographies, where small gestures stand for things much larger, when control gives way to chaos.

A Built Manifesto

Tucked away on a dense street in Chennai with mixed-land use is the newly-built office for local practice KSM Architecture Studio. Built by the designers and engineers of the practice for themselves, the building housing the studio — both in its intent and its manifestation — captures the practice’s worldview. It is a startling and refreshing example of how ‘wisdom’ and ‘technique’ can find an amicable meeting point, embodying the design beliefs and principles of being sensitive to the environment.

Indian Cities Sanitation And Equity

At the recently concluded edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, RMA Architects (Mumbai + Boston) presented an ongoing research project mapping the sanitation landscape in Mumbai and beyond. It explored social, technical and cultural challenges surrounding sanitation infrastructure and suggested potential design and planning solutions. The central component of the installation represented a community toilet building in India. The area occupied by this installation would typically house 12 toilets in Mumbai, serving up to 17,401 people. The video projections in the installation depict the lived experiences of those residents of the city who grapple with extremely limited access to sanitation infrastructure.

Site Emergence

Site sensitive and unapologetically oriented towards raw city views, this weekend home by CollectiveProject balances its weight with ease

Rooted In India

Tiipoi’s Spandana Gopal infuses every home product with a rich dose of Indian design that focuses on less wastage, more practicality and quiet functionality

London

Architect and artist Anand Menon paints a picture of London’s skyline, marking out its most popular buildings

In With The Old, And The New

A double-height office gets a strong historical link and a modern look in a single design move by common Ground practice

Home Affiliations

Traditionally grounded but built to be light and breezy, this family home in South India by Thought Parallels Architecture is free of barriers and architectural rules

The Quirk Factor

Dynamic elements of interest give this media office by The White Motif an upbeat, layered look

The Power Of Quiet

Evoking calm and contemplation, this home in Goa by Grounded is sumptuous in its simplicity

Sustainable Live-Work Spaces

Designing a new studio space for a long-established and leading environmental graphics firm meant creating a spatial experience that provided continuity with their work ethics while exploring new inter-relationships that could foster creative thinking.

Staggered Volumes

Rivierstaete is located in the neighbourhood of Rivierenbuurt, in the south of Amsterdam.

Office In The Park

The project is a modern, self-contained office complex that prioritizes adaptability, spatial flexibility, and energy efficiency to achieve a collaborative, socially-oriented workspace for the modern Indian workforce.

Why Questions Matter More Than Answers–

Always focus on asking the right questions for breakthrough insights

Office Within A Garden

HOILA, the new Second Home offices in Hollywood, is a collection of recipes and ingredients of a California cocktail.

Looking Inwards

Project: Soul Garden, Hyderabad, Telangana Architects: Spacefiction Studio, Hyderabad, Telangana

Green Field Industrial Facility

The client is an exporter and manufacturer of electronic components and consumer products.

Embracing Nature

Project: Kaudia Estate, Uttarakhand Architects: Sandeep Geeta & Associates Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

In The Midst Of A Rainforest

Located in the upmarket neighborhood of Powai in Mumbai, the topography of the site for this project was heavily contoured, ranging from 0 to 13 meters.

A relaxed, collaborated working environment

Project: Reckitt Benciser, Hyderabad Architects: Geo Designs, Delhi

Breaking Away From Conventions

Mecidiyeköy-Maslak Axis in Istanbul is the area where Turkey’s foreign capital takes its most visible form.

Creating Heliotropic Effect

Project: 62 Jorbagh, New Delhi Architects: Common Ground Practice, New Delhi