CATEGORIES

Interlacing Perspectives

‘Meraki-2019’ A visionary Seminar series presented by Dr.Baliram Hiray College of Architecture, Bandra(East), Mumbai.

Facilitating A Community Through Architectural Practice

The humble, self-designed, self-built and organically planned home built by the majority of the world population rarely gets appreciated and critiqued as a viable lesson in architectural design.

The Art Of Solving Problems Creatively

The practice of architecture is perhaps incomplete without the complement of a variety of other arts.

Upcycling towards a playful tomorrow

Play is like the middle child, often forgotten, and always taking a back seat. For young kids, play can simply be running around, armwrestling with friends, building sandcastles on the beach, or singing popular music tracks in the shower.

Balancing The Poetics And Pragmatism Of Everyday Design

Humanity is faced with an oxymoronic crisis. The crisis involves the earth, the environment, impending looms of climate change, deforestation, loss of species, dwindling resources etc.

Just Give Me Some Space: Discussions And Beyond

Just Give Me Some Space (JGMSS) is Suha Riyaz Khopatkar’s debut book that paints a portrait of the dynamic life of an architecture student.

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.

When Your Work Is Transformative, Why Shouldn't Your Workspace Be?

Our mission to create transformational workspace design solutions took us, this time, to the offices of Mavenir Systems.

Spaces That Inspire, Encourage, And Care

The design of the Happy office in Mumbai by Studio Osmosis demarcates a definite shift in office space design towards multi-functional workspaces, driven by mobile technology and changing work styles, while also accounting for work-life balance and employee wellbeing.

Spaces For The ‘Work Hard, Play Hard' Generation

The office space for Delhivery in Mumbai, designed by Architecture Discipline goes back to the university to pick up ideas on how to make employees love the workplace. With interesting design elements that take us back to fun college days, the office still manages to symbolize a stable and ambitious start-up culture that is employee-centric and edgy, yet aligned to other Delhivery offices across the country in terms of its visual and design identity.

Shaw Contract Introduces New Curated Colorways For Iconic Collection

An expanded colour palette revitalizes the best-selling Dye Lab

Exploration And Experimentation In Architecture

In creating an office in Bengaluru, Biome Environmental Solutions pushes the boundaries of sustainability-centred design thought and the use of natural materials in innovative ways to build need-based spaces rather than conforming to the ever-so-prevalent growth-based paradigm.

Aliens, Art And Architecture

In the second series of the illustration, Architect Arun Sawant explores impossible possibilities of human potential through the concept of aliens, art and architecture. Inspired by his childhood and later by formal education, the architect plays with ideas of real and unreal manifestations.

Nostalgia, Narratives And Nuances In Brick

The basic building block of almost all architecture, the brick, has come a long way. From a humble element that is often painted and concealed in most homes to a marker of perfection, precision and many more attributes for those who choose to use them sans any finish. The Brick House by CollectiveProject is distinguished by its use of exposed-brickwork implemented within complex geometries. But if one looks beyond the first layer of the bricks; both physically and metaphorically; it reveals a context and narrative immersed in nostalgia and experimentation.

Modern Kitchens For Modern Minds

Sleek a pioneer of modular Kitchens business in India is poised to produce the best Kitchens and wardrobes suitable for Indian conditions.

Jaquar Group Launches The Arc Collection By Frederico Meroni

Inspired by the classic designs of Roman architectur

IKEA Breaks Ground For Its First Mumbai Store

IKEA Breaks Ground For Its First Mumbai Store • IKEA Mumbai store will be an investment of around 1000 crore • The IKEA store will employ around 700 direct coworkers and create around 1500 indirect job opportunities

Viega enabling Team Swachh Bharat to distribute ‘Team Swachh Action Kits' to 3,500 schools reaching 7,00,000 children

‘Team Swachh Bharat’, is an initiative co-developed by WASH United and UNICEF, in support of Government of India’s ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’. With the support of Viega - a German MNC operating in India and one of the world leaders in installation technology for sanitary and heating, ‘Team Swachh Bharat Action Kits’ will be provided to 3,500 schools across India. These playbased kits will enable nearly 7,00,000 children to improve the practice of sanitation and hygiene through games and activities.

Logical Thinking on Distinct Ways

In Conversation with IA&B, Sanjay Puri expresses his views on the rampant construction in India, vertical living and how smart architectural systems can improve daily lives.

Explorations On Display The Slate, Mumbai

The boutique, designed by Kavan Shah Design Studio, is a narrative of subtle details to create an understated space.

Contextual Revitalization And Sustainable Place-Making

The Bengal Rowing ClubArchitect’s Note: The objective was to improve the quality of club life and the cultural legacy of the institution and to increase the footfall of young people by achieving a contemporary look while still preserving a sensorial and contextual meaning.

Minimalism In The Indian House The Matt House

A house with a single philosophy in design, select natural materials and functional aesthetics. 

KSB wins the Realty plus Excellence Awards (West) 2016

At the 8 th edition of the Realty plus Conclave 2016 & Awards, supported by GIHED - Gujarat Institute of Housing and Estate Developers, held in Ahmedabad on July 01, 2016 at Hotel Courtyard by Marriott.

Mr Dilip Kumbhat of K-LITE Industries Elected as National President of The Indian Society of Lighting Engineers

The Indian Society of Lighting Engineers (ISLE), a professional body in the field of illumination engineering and head quartered in Delhi, has elected Mr. Dilip Kumbhat of K-LITE Industries, Chennai, as its National President.

Scaling New Heights

Inconversation with Dr Prashanth Reddy, Managing Director, FunderMax India, he highlights about the journey of FunderMax India Pvt Ltd in last 10 years; how the brand has customized and provided cutting edge product solutions to establish itself as a leading Facade Cladding brand in India.

Conserving The Past For The Future

While history is a largely intangible phenomenon, architecture is one of the few artistic sciences that lend history a certain kind of tangibility. It offers us a chance to experience the past through the built landscape, making it possible to, quite literally, walk down the memory lane. However, our increasingly apathetic attitudes have reduced heritage architecture to elaborate yet unkempt, decaying structures, and conservation to superficial beautification.

Preserving An Old-world Charm In A New-age Milieu

In a city clawing for space, there are pockets that still retain a built fabric reminiscent of the olden days. In a city competing for modernity, there are precincts that hold onto a culture that is distinct and adds flavor to the otherwise bland every-day life. Aptly demonstrating this dichotomy, the restoration of the Cama Building at Murzban Colony in Mumbai by conservation architect Vikas Dilawari is a shining example of how conservation and restoration efforts not only preserve structures of the past, but also a way of life that is impossible to replicate outside of its cultural context.