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Play of Sciography

Project: Design Studio, Nashik, Maharashtra.Architects: Synectics Architects, Nashik, Maharashtra

A True Reflection of the Landscape

Project: ‘MAUSAM’- The House of Seasons, KeralaArchitects: Zero Studio, Kerala

A Demonstration of Circular Sustainability

Project: Green Solution House, DenmarkArchitects: 3XN Team, Denmark

A Sustainable Future For Healthcare Design

The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the forefront the shortcomings of India’s current healthcare system.

DESIGN WITH CULTURAL CONFLUENCE

Dubai-based interior designer Pallavi Dean has covered the entire gamut — residential, commercial, institutional and hospitality spaces, all in a career spanning two decades. We join her on a retrospective ride

CARBON GOES VERSA-TILE

In an effort to upcycle air pollution, Carbon Craft Design has found a way to not only capture carbon emissions but also use them to create scalable, radical building solutions

SPECTACLE

Transformative public interventions that alter perceptions and neighbourhoods

By the Green Book

Interiors architect Jannat Vasi unravels the much-contested definition of organic design, and suggests ways to adopt it

DESIGN IN CONTEXT

Products where design blurs the lines between art and functionality

A LEGACY, BY ART

The ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: Timeless’ exhibition goes virtual to connect with the community through artistic interpretations of the architect’s exemplary structures

Architect's Travel Diary

“The cooper union foundation building, designed by Ar. Fred A. Petersen, in 1859, is an inspiration for future-ready buildings,” Ar. Amit Aurora

ROLL CALL

INTRODUCING OUR NEW CONTRIBUTING EDITORS. THE CLEVER TASTEMAKERS WE RELY ON FOR INSIDER INSIGHT. FROM NEW YORK TO VENICE AND MUMBAI TO DELHI, WE DRESSED THEM ALL IN GUCCI FOR THEIR FIRST DAY AT WORK

TALIB CHOUDHRY

THE ADVENTURES OF MINI AND MOUSE IN DUBAI. TALIB CHOUDHRY, THE EDITOR OF AD MIDDLE EAST, EXPLORES CORNERS OF HIS HOME THROUGH A SERIES OF PORTRAITS OF HIS ADORABLE CATS

THE NEW GLAMP

STUDIO LOTUS AND PRINTMAKER DHVANI BEHL BRING THE WILDERNESS RIGHT INTO THE TENTS AT RAAS CHHATRASAGAR

MIN HOGG

MIN HOGG LEGENDARY THE WORLD OF INTERIORS, FOUNDING EDITOR OF WAS KNOWN FOR SEEING STYLISH INTERIORS EVERYWHERE, “FROM A PALACE TO A PIGSTY”. THE INVENTOR OF THE VERY NOTION OF SHABBY CHIC INTERIORS, SHE WAS A GLAMOROUS TRAILBLAZER OF MAGAZINES TO COME, CREATING WHAT IS STILL THE ULTIMATE INDUSTRY REFERENCE. HERE, WE PUBLISH HER PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF MAKING HER HOLIDAY HOME IN THE CANARY ISLAND WHICH WAS FIRST PRINTED IN THE WORLD OF INTERIORS, OCTOBER 1998 ISSUE. 1938-2019

SHADES OF CHANGE

THE FENDI CASA 2020 COLLECTION, WHICH WOULD HAVE DEBUTED AT SALONE DEL MOBILE, SEES ITS MOST ICONIC DESIGNS REIMAGINED IN BOLD MONOTONES

ENRIC PASTOR

ENRIC PASTOR IS OUR AMIGO IN MADRID. HIS NEWLY REFURBISHED APARTMENT IS CHIC AND SUNNY, WHICH IS EXACTLY HOW EVERYONE DESCRIBES THE PAGES OF AD ESPAÑA. MI CASA ES SU CASA, HE WRITES

LUCA DINI

AD Italy editor-in-chief Luca Dini has refurbished his second home in the Marche region, a place with foundations that go deep into his family’s history.

BERYL HSU

BERYL HSU INDULGES A NEW PASSION FOR BOTANICAL SCULPTURES AND FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS AS SHE SPENDS LOCKDOWN IN SHANGHAI.

BERLIN DIARIES

TAKING A BREAK IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, JAGDIP JAGPAL VISITS GERMANY’S ART CAPITAL IN SEARCH OF OLD FRIENDS AND NEW WORKS BY OLAFUR ELIASSON AND SAJAN MANI, AMONG OTHERS

Indian Luxury Takes Centrestage

With a design aesthetic that is deeply rooted in India’s oldest traditions yet suited to modern sensibilities, Svasa Homes, Basavanagudi, a residential project in Bengaluru, is redefining conventional notions of luxury living

Suspending the city. Silencing the stranger

One of the biggest calamities of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the city – the right to the city, the right to livelihood, the right to move, the right to being public. The city, historically, has not only emerged as the key location for the exchange of ideas and technologies in a globalizing world, but also the site to possibly earn a livelihood with some semblance of dignity, if not more.

Our horizontal Babel

Already more than half of humanity lives in cities, and the urbanisation process advances at so vertiginous a rate that we will soon be able to describe the planet as a built globe, with its population agglomerated in metropolises and the surrounding environment transformed into an artificial landscape. From the city’s mesh of relationships comes its potential and lure, manifested in the territory like a magnetic field that is irresistible to rural populations, a multitude of iron filings dragged beyond remedy towards the metropolitan magnet.

Life in the Anthropocene

SARS-CoV-2 has penetrated our world. Here in Central Europe, it has drastically changed our everyday lives and society. We have never experienced such a situation before and we have yet to develop a language to discuss it. People are even talking about a war against the virus. But against which enemy is this war actually being waged?

Cities are not landscapes

The destruction of the landscape by the ferocious invasion of cities, settlements and infrastructures mostly designed for traffic, but also by the excessive proliferation of stand-alone buildings, has assumed devastating proportions in recent decades. Italy is currently consuming roughly ten square metres of land per second for construction purposes. The natural landscape we love, value and need for our nourishment and recreation is at risk of being annihilated.

Evoking Traditional Spatial Gestures

Project: Taj Theog Resort & Spa, Himachal Pradesh Architects: Studio Lotus, Delhi

Off-the-ground Structures with Light Materials and Minimum Footprint

Project: Lift Treetop Boutique Hotel, Ubud, Bali Architects: Alexis Dornier, Indonesia

Documenting the Passage of Time

Project: Atali Ganga, Rishikesh Architects: RLDA Design Studio, New Delhi

The design of the hotel conformed to the context and characteristic of the beach city...

Project: Arize Hotel, Thailand Architects: IDIN Architects, Thailand

A Timber Chamber

Project: Woodwalk Showroom, New Delhi Architects: Vir.Mueller Architects, New Delhi