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High And Mighty

When It Comes To Performance And Durability, High-pressure Laminates Have Become A Go-to Surface Material In The Construction Industry

The Unsung Hero Of Chandigarh

Shiv Datt Sharma’s Life Story Is The Stuff Movies Are Made Of – From Experiencing The Partition Of India To Building A New City, The Modernist Architect ‘hero’ Has Done It All

Down By The Riverside

B&F Waterfront, Located At Salvador Do Mundo In Goa, Ticks All The Boxes Of Luxury Living

Deluxe Dwellings

Going Beyond Aesthetics, Next-gen Luxury Homes Are Being Built To Deliver Lifestyle Experiences

Dwell In Goa's Innovative Architectural Habitat Si-Ou Villas

Goa has mesmerised every traveller with its unique amalgamation of Indian and Portuguese culture, the serene seas and quaint by-lanes, and thus has mapped the state on the global front.

Special Edition

Arabian Nights in contemporary splendour, is what the abu dhabi edition offers through its distinctive design by wimberly interiors

Kissing The Clouds

The mesmerising penthouse of the Kothari family designed by interior designer Aakriti Saraf is a bundle of joy - crafted with care and created with sheer love to meet heart’s desire

A Remarkable Blend

Conceptualised as “a pebble in the grass,” the Pool House designed by Delhi-based architectural firm 42mm expresses a shift in time between two buildings set parallel to each other by the virtue of its design yet congruent to its context by commonality in the material palette.

The First Lady Of Conservation

STYLE AND RESEARCH ARE THE KEY INGREDIENTS OF PADMA SHRI SUNITA KOHLI’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS AS A CHAMPION OF HISTORICAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION

Kitchen Rewind

MODERN KITCHENS ARE TEMPERED WITH NOSTALGIC VIBES – FROM WOOD TO INTRICATE, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS THAT ARE MAKING A HUGE COMEBACK

Making A Bold Statememt

A mixture of influences, an eclectic design sensibility and a passion of storytelling through his designs, interior designer Sanjyt Syngh’s house is all that and more

Scaling New Heights

THE BASICS OF SPEED AND SAFETY ARE AUGMENTED BY SMARTNESS IN MODERN ESCALATORS AND ELEVATORS

Stop And Stare

The Uredd Rest Area by HZA on a Norwegian Scenic Route is a public spot for travellers to relax amidst an untouched natural landscape and flashing Auroras

Stockholm

Architect and designer Jason Wadhwani takes us on a tour of the Swedish capital, and its comfortable injection of warmth into Brutalist structures

Worth A Squeeze

Feel the Peel by Carlo Ratti Associati and Eni is an experimental juicer that uses orange peels to create 3D-printed bioplastic cups

Experimenting With Narratives

The driving force behind The Orange Lane and Peacock Life, Shabnam Gupta details her design stories, where the project is always hailed the hero

In The Context Of Architecture - Jim Olson & Tom Kundig

The principals at Seattle-based Olson Kundig talk life trajectories, architectural perspectives, design beliefs and landmark residential projects

On Charles Correa's Kala Academy

In the wake of the recent threat of demolishing the storeyed amphitheatre of Panjim’s iconic Kala Academy, designed by Charles Correa, what does the future hold for India’s postcolonial architecture?

Ritualistic Refurbishing Of A Lavish Hotel

AR Hiral Jobalia is the Principal Architect of Hiral Jobalia Studio (HJS), Mumbai. It is a boutique-sized firm having broad and varied experience in modern home interiors, private residential homes & commercial projects across India which articulates into catering to a mixed set of clients. HJS Studio follows a step program, which starts with the client’s brief, innovation in both design and exploration of materials, constructability & budgets are carefully resolved and refined in a poetic solution that seeks to engage human perception. This results in sensually sculpted designs that speak of intimacy and identity – both at once.

Magnificence Through A Marble Showroom

AR Amit Aurora & AR Rahul Bansal partners, DCA architects Delhi DCA Architects is an award-winning design consultation firm based out of New Delhi, India. Founded in 1996, the firm has accomplished design projects across diverse scales over the last two decades and is headed by two partners, Ar Amit Aurora and Ar Rahul Bansal. With a unique ethos of Dream. Design. Discover. Deliver, the DCA Group provides services in Architecture, Interior Design and Design Coordination across a wide range of building types including Offices, Residential, Retail/ luxury retail, Hospitality and Brand Identities. Every project is a successful result of structured collaboration between the design team, clients and the spaces, thereby crafting innovative and sophisticated design solutions. Working with all the relevant stakeholders, each project is designed to meet specific needs and conditions that create an exclusive product.

Home Inspired By Chettinad Architecture

AR Vignesh Sekar Founder, STO.M.P Madurai AR Vignesh is a skilled designer with a passion for creativity and confidence gained from the successful completion of numerous architectural projects. He has previous professional experience at Webe Design Lab Chennai, Cadence Architects and Dominic Dube Inge Rieck Architecture Studio, Bangalore. His firm, STO.M.P is an architecture practice which believes in the juxtaposition of form-based functionality integrated into the collective conscience of the greater community. Largely influenced by the ‘modernist principles,’ the studio experiments the ideas of contextual modernism in alignment with practical aesthetics. STO.M.P has continuously applied techniques to question the conventional material palette. The team believes that sourcing local materials and using sustainable methods in every component of the building is key to a pragmatic yet efficient practice.

Indian Aesthetics Memory, Museums And The Mahatma

Memorial sites dedicated to Gandhi developed organically or naturally, like the house he was born in Porbunder; or by association, like Mani Bhavan in Mumbai; or sites which were specifically made for the purpose of creating a memorial. While 2019 is the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi, it also marks about seven decades since the idea of memorialising Gandhi was initiated

Enabling Living Together

An interview with Gaëlle Hamonic and Jean-Christophe Masson

A Tryst With Contemporary India

Charles Correa’s design for the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad is that one rare occasion where architecture is cleansed of ego — it neither indulges in iconicity nor in symbolism; it is cleansed architecture

A Literary Delight Through Architecture!

Li Xiang Founder, X+Living Shanghai, China X+Living takes design as the core concept and insists on achieving the highest quality of design works from conceptual design to final completion. The projects, which have involved many fields of business, including parent-child, hotel, office, retail, culture, commerce, etc, had always driven the trend of the industry with high-level design confections and triggered enthusiastic feedback at the phenomenal level in the design industry. Accompanied by the management and founding of Li Xiang, X+Living has become a top design team led by several experienced designers. With high expert skills and outstanding service awareness, X+Living has created a surreal experience for consumers and unexpected brand values for customers.

The Next In Vernacular Architecture

Architecture has become a capitalist.

Rethinking The Future: Architecture And Its Education

“I want to be like animals, the bird makes a nest in one or two days, the rat digs a hole in a night, but intelligent humans like us spend 30 years to have a house, that’s wrong.” - Jon Jandai

Uniting The Human-Scale With The City-Scale

London-based architect Usman Haque is famed for his interactive architectural systems, and for his exploration of newer, more effective ways of creating human engagement and interaction through his designs. Indian Architect & Builder caught up with him, to quiz him on a variety of topics such as his journey as an architect, his inspirations and philosophies, architects using the digital revolution to their advantage, and more!

Framing spaces

Almost every architect also doubles as a photographer or at least an enthusiast.

Peak Season

This light-filled residence is always in a sunny mood with its newly spacious interiors and a lofty perch looking over glittering Sydney harbour.