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Sympathetic Disparities

The fine dining restaurant, designed by sP+a, stands as a celebration of the food industry, with the creation of elegant spaces which are in contrast to the trends of mall culture.

Ultratech Recognizes India's Promising Engineers & Architects At 'India Next' 2017

Mumbai, 28th April 2017: UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group company awarded stalwarts of the construction industry at the ‘India Next’ awards evening.

Viega Opens Manufacturing Facility In India

On course for growth

Excellence Award Ceremony

A confluence is an annual event organized by FunderMax India to bring its Business Partners together under one single platform and discuss the year gone by and outline the strategy for the way forward.

CERA Launches Premium Brand SENATOR

Mrs. Deepshikha Khaitan, Vice Chairperson, CERA Sanitaryware Limited, unveiled SENATOR by CERA, the premium offering from CERA stable, at a glittering function held at Ahmedabad, in the presence of trade associates invited from all over India.

An Unwavering Commitment To Innovation

Enrico Dini is known for incredible innovations in 3D printing and the first to build a working 3D printer for printing buildings. He became world famous as “The Man Who Prints Houses”. He invented the “D-shape” printer, the world’s first construction scale 3-dimensional printer. The machine prints using natural materials like sand, earth, and perhaps also lunar dust. It is the biggest 3D-printer in the world, handling objects as big as six metres cubed, layered in 5mm sections. The technique, says Dini, brings together the best of printing technology and robotics. He is presently working with Foster & partners, Renzo Piano, Fuksas, Zaha Hadid Architects, UN studio on this new technology.

An Adventure In Architecture

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Michael Green founded architecture firm MGA to create meaningful and sustainable change in building through innovation in construction sciences and design. Michael and his team are ambitiously extending the boundaries of mass timber construction, having completed some of the largest modern timber buildings in the world, including The Wood Innovation Design Centre and T3 Minneapolis. He is also the founder of DBR | Design Build Research and TOE | Timber Online Education, a non-profit school and research platform dedicated to teaching the design and construction of socially, culturally and environmentally relevant student-led installations with a focus in systemic change in building for climate, environment, disaster and global shelter needs.

Biomimicry – Design That Sustains All Life

Prashant Dhawan is the co-founder of Biomimicry India Lab and Studio as well as the Biomimicry India Network. Biomimicry India has been and is actively involved in spreading the knowledge of biomimicry and has organised and conducted biomimicry talks, workshops and courses at various schools, colleges, corporate offices and conferences as well as ‘open to all’ talks and workshops across India. Prashant prefers to see himself as an amateur researcher of ‘sustainable happiness’.

361 Degrees Design Conference 2019: Designing For The Future

14 th & 15 th February 2019, Nehru Centre Auditorium, Mumbai

Abstractions, Illustrations Ideas: Influence Of Indian Architecture In Fantasy

Abstraction is an unreal and intangible idea. It detached and extracted from the object, reshaped and recreated. The following essay and illustrations capture an architect’s attempt to dissociate him from the objectivity of function, building, creation and other compartmentalised aspects of architectural practice. The first feature of a 3-part series looks at the influence of his childhood, education, practice and their manifestation into abstract ideas. It takes away the implied meaning attributed to the everyday and adds layers of fantasy, inspiration and unravels the working of an artist’s mind and being.

A House In The Grove

Proportion and materiality come together in this farmhouse to craft an experience of living within a grove, with a humble connection to all things nature- sun, wind and land. Environment and cost sustainability enabled the architects to develop a structure that is close to nature.

Architecture For The People

The school is a fresh breeze of assurance in times of global influences set within a rural context responsibly addressing its locale, context and inhabitants.

The House At The Valley

Perched at a sloping site, looking towards a valley, House Split by MYVN Architecture, displays how the natural conditions of a site can come together with a contemporary mindset to frame spatial experiences that enable one to enjoy, to its utmost potential, the built as well as the un-built.

Reimagining The Classics

Redesigning Guggenheim Museum, New York City: Prof. Percy Pithawala and his team bag the top honor at international ideas competition to redesign Guggenheim museum in New York City.

Adaptive Reuse In The Contemporary World

By transforming a 60’s era pharmaceutical warehouse in the Okhla Industrial Area of New Delhi into a swanky, industrial chic office space for a creative agency, Studio Bipolar have not only created a shining example of how a design intervention can highlight the dormant beauty of our older buildings, but also made a compelling, aesthetic case for adaptive reuse of structures we would otherwise be tempted to demolish and rebuild upon.

Designing A Glocal Icon

In creating the headquarters for Bosch in Pune, the NCUBE Design team not only infuses the building with a global, international aesthetic but also brings in quirky elements of Pune city, making the office a perfect ambassador for a ‘glocal’ design.

Reinterpreting Intrigue

A corporate headquarters in Surat for a construction company, designed by The B.A.D. Studio rethinks the approach to visual curiosity, and how to transform these elements of intrigue from being strictly ornamental to heavily functional. Their design is intricately spliced and offset to create a visual diversion that also functionally benefits the spaces inside and outside the structure.

Reducing Costs Through Effective Specification Of Materials & Finishes

Surface finishes are enabling Indian Architects & Designers to achieve higher levels of durability and extended material lifespans, as well as cost savings throughout the life of the project.

Baroque Style

An appreciation of the Baroque style of architecture and in churches constructed in Goa and Bangalore. The important characteristics of this style were the spatial invention, the concept of movement, drama and sculptural decoration and freedom of detail.

Manit Rastogi Algorithms In Nature

Graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and the Architectural Association, London with Honours and Distinction in Energy and Environmental Studies. He is the Founder Partner of Morphogenesis with Sonali Rastogi.Manit is a founder member of The GRIHA Council, India’s own Green rating system. As a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of GRIHA Resource Persons Group on Environment and Ecology - Lt. Governor’s Secretariat, New Delhi, Manit works with urban policy makers to spearhead initiatives with an emphasis on environmental sensibility and social welfare.

Gokhan Avcioglu Digitised Expressions

Born in Ankara, Turkey, Gokhan Avcioglu completed his education in KSU/BA with a degree in Architecture in 1983. He is the principal and founder of GAD (Global Architectural Development).Avcioglu is a member of AIA New York Chapter, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and The Chamber of Architects Turkey (TMMOB), French National Architects Order Board and the Dutch Bureau Architectenregister.

Vikas Dil Awari Taking The Past Into The Future

Vikas Dilawari is a practicing conservation architect with more than two and a half decades of experience exclusively in the field of conservation, with scales ranging from urbanism to architecture. He has a double masters in conservation from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and from the University of York. He was the Head of Department of Conservation at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai, from its inception in 2007 to 2014. Dilawari has lectured and written extensively on the subject of conservation, nationally and internationally.

Anne-Cecile Comar An Architectural Evolution

Anne-Cecile Comar is partner at the firm Atelier du Pont, along with Philippe Croisier. The firm employs 30 staff members from all kinds of backgrounds. Atelier du Pont is also a founding member of the architecture collective, Plan01 with which they created the eco design engineering office, Plan02, in 2008. Atelier du Pont is a multi-polar agency that combines public and private projects, architecture and town-planning, interiors and exteriors. These experiences have given the agency the opportunity to operate in a variety of occasionally difficult contexts and sites.

Looking To The Future, Backed By Solid Traditional Knowledge

Ayaz Basrai is a graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Busride Design was launched by Ayaz Basrai along with his architect brother Zameer, a CEPT graduate. Busride has dabbled in designing Bollywood sets, miniature sets, exhibitions and kiosks, retail galleries, restaurants and boutique hotels, amongst built environments. They’ve also worked in the area of street art and graffiti, illustration, heritage conservation and urban planning; which Ayaz says, informs their practice in profound ways.

What Next?

Monish Kumar Siripurapu graduated from the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi in 2009 and started Ant Studio in 2010. Monish is a Tata scholar and received the prestigious JN Tata scholarship in 2015 for his PG Diploma in Robotic Fabrication from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Spain. In collaboration with his colleagues, he has won many national and international architectural competitions. His works have been published in well-renowned architectural journals. Recently, out of 180 start-ups from 22 countries, Ant Studio was awarded one of the 12 winners of the Asia Pacific Low Carbon Footprint Challenge by UN Environment Programme for his CoolAnt Product.

Innovation In Highways & Waterways

7 th December, 2018, IHC, New Delhi. Over 175 delegates & 18 Speakers were part of the third edition of RHW Conference (Railways, Highways & Waterways), which focussed on Innovation in Highways & Waterways, held on 7 th December, 2018 at Silver Oak, India Habitat Center, New Delhi.

A Canvas For Recounting Memories While Making New Ones

Free Flow Junction Bar, Hyderabad, Telangana

The Architect's Personal Playground

The Drift House on Little Much Farm, Maharashtra

A Box Of Mystique

Seams Pret and Couture, Mumbai, Maharashtra

The House As Museum Of Memories

The Memory Box, Baroda, Gujarat