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Contemporizing Traditional Water Architecture of India

Water crisis is perhaps not a recent phenomenon. From time immemorial, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed deluges and famines. Each region has had an indigenous system to preserve the excesses or mitigate scarcity. It is increasingly critical to not only revive this past but also conserve and subsequently build for the future by taking a leaf from the chapters of yore.

Building A Resilient Ecosystem: The Case Of Nagaland

‘Resilience’ as defined by physics is, “The ability to store strain energy and deflect elastically under a load without breaking or being deformed.” Practices in Nagaland have been harnessing its existing skill-sets, traditions and materials along with newer systems to adapt and initiate progress within existing challenges in Nagaland. The case of Nagaland is an interesting trajectory to understand design a means to reinforce economic and social resilience in a context specific modus.

Digitised Design Processes

An elegant synthesis of technology, design and its fine application results into an unusual fluid piece of furniture.

IIA Cochin Center Organized The Monsoon Architecture Festival At Bolgatty Palace Resort

ABOUT MAF Monsoon Architecture festival was the grand culmination of the two year long LIVING MONSOON program which was the theme for this tenure of IIA COCHIN CENTER. During these two years from 2015 –2017, 6 Design Talks featuring 12 invited architects were conducted.

A Humble Locale

A community space that uplifts the neighbourhood by providing it the necessary sociocultural experience using local materials, techniques and influences.

Peak of Realisations

Zaha Hadid Architects explore the tipping points of architectural design as a manifestation of humanity being pushed to its limits.

Revived Context

Rocco Valentini Architecture revitalises an urban public space while simultaneously aggrandizing the historic fabric in its context.

Bundi - A Connoisseur's Destination

This photo essay implicitly captures the essence of a town of Rajasthan, its historic gallore and colourful charm.

Experience Centre - Novell Ikebana, Neemrana

Deriving inspiration from Ikebana, Japanese art and style of flower arrangement this iconic building is the sales and marketing office with an attached sample flat for Novell Ikebana, Neemrana.

A Cultural Revival

The Kulm Eispavilion designed by Foster + Partners has emerged in design as an extension of the street, establishing a necessary connection between the daily life of the community and its historical spirit as a place of celebration, sports, skating and the sun.

Arcelor Mittal Orbit

The ArcelorMittal Orbit towering over the London Skyline is a 115-metre high observation tower. It is 22-mtrs taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York and offers unparalleled views of the entire 250 acres of the Olympic Park and London’s horizon.

Crafting A Landscape For Learning

Breaking away from conventional school-building design typology, The Axis Pramiti School in Bengaluru by The Purple Ink Studio blurs the stereotypical distinction between the classroom and the outdoor activity area, thus emphasizing on an all-round education within a nature-infused setting that encourages interactive learning.

Reflecting The Brand

As office design is being rethought world over, this one presents a simple yet intelligent approach for creating a unique, comfortable and efficient workplace.

Integration in Exploration of Spaces

An integration of regional sensitivity with international technologies for an upgradation in communal living spaces have been expressed in this design by the architects.

Buoyant in Industrial Boundaries

Interiors in industrial structures usually are hard to go with aesthetical values; Barthélémy Griño Architectes have endowed this manufacturing workshop with minimal and refined interior design.

The Pixelated Play Of Expansion And Contraction

For a structure located in a strategic urban corridor PN Architects and Interior Designers devise a ‘Frozen Form’ with interesting geometries that emerge from the concept of expansion and contraction.

Uncommon Ideas For The Common Man - A Commoner's Nest, Zidke, Maharashtra

Designed for a ‘common man’; a biology professor and landscape enthusiast, the Commoner’s Nest extracts extraordinariness from seemingly common means and technology. The project relooks the subjective ideas of luxury, common and uncommon and delivers a project that fits into the brackets proficiently.

Seeing A Collaborative Design Ethic For The Real World

Almost everywhere, one can see ardent walkers on the street vehemently talking, but to no one in particular.

Nature-Al Logic

The Internet of Things has made science fiction a reality.

A Blueprint For Re-Evolution: The New Normal In Architecture

Work expands to fill the time it is given. It was a common assumption and goal during the Industrial Revolution that once we mechanized our mundane everyday tasks, we would have an abundance of free time for leisure in which to pursue enjoyable activities.

The Buddha Principle In Green Building Design

Gautama Buddha is said to have received instruction in spiritual practices by overhearing a music teacher tell his pupils: “Do not tighten the strings too tight or they will break; do not make the too loose or there will be no music.”

361 Degrees Design Conference 2017: Architectural Revolution

Enveloping the theme of ‘Architectural Revolution’, the 361° Conference 2017 was a thought-provoking and esoteric platform. 361° Conference in its tenth edition continues to celebrate the power of thoughts and ideas, and initiates an invigorating dialogue on architecture and design.

Patrik Schumacher Towards A Parametric Future

Patrik Schumacher has been a designer at Zaha Hadid Architects since 1988. He is a company director and senior designer of the practice as well as a co-author and project partner on seminal projects such as the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the BMW Central Building in Leipzig and the Guangzhou Opera House in China. He is registered with the Architect’s Registration Board, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Dr Cecile Balmond Of Research, Processes And Data

Dr Cecil Balmond OBE, is an internationally renowned artist, architect and engineer, known to transcend the conventional boundaries of the discipline, working in the crossover between art and science. Before setting up Balmond Studio in 2011, Balmond was Deputy Chairman of Arup. He was also Chairman of Arup’s European Building Division, and ran the critically acclaimed design group, AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit). Balmond currently holds the Paul Philippe Cret Chair at University of Pennsylvania. He has also been Visiting Saarinen Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, Professor at LSE Urban Cities Programme, and Visiting Kenzo Tange critic, Harvard Graduate School of Architecture.

Nicola Saladino Integrating Systems

Nicola Saladino is founding partner of Beijing-based reMIX studio. He graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona and in 2009 he obtained his Master degree from the Landscape Urbanism program at the Architectural Association in London. He has carried out several workshops at the AA and was also a tutor at Beijing LCD (Laboratory for Computational Design) and taught in the International Foundation Course at Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Julian Treasure Designing With Ears

Julian Treasure is founder and chairman of The Sound Agency, a UK-based audio branding consultancy. Julian’s book Sound Business is the seminal work on creating intentional, effective business sound; he is regularly featured as a sound and communication expert in the world’s radio, print and web media.Julian is also a sought-after and top-rated international speaker. He collaborated with Armstrong World Industries for the introduction of Total Acoustics Ceilings.

J. Scott Kilbourn Optimising The Digital World

Scott is a Registered Architect licensed in Massachusetts and has Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge and Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, Hanover. Scott is a Principal at Perkins Eastman with more than 30 years of experience in the design and management of architectural projects around the world. He is an expert in retail, entertainment and commercial mixeduse project types; he has also designed and master-planned projects for civic, academic and workplace uses as well. Prior to joining Perkins Eastman, he led design projects and developed offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai. 

Wipro Lighting wins India LED Lighting Visionary Innovation Leadership Award 2017

Wipro Lighting, part of Wipro Enterprises (P) Limited and a leading player in lighting in India, has received the “India LED Lighting Visionary Innovation Leadership” Award at the 2017 Frost & Sullivan India Best Practices Awards. The ceremony was held in Mumbai recently.

Upholding Legacy In Radical Times

It is quite ironic that the successor of one of the most prominent architecture firms the world is someone we have hardly heard anything about. And what little information that has been circulating is most likely criticism, or curiosity. Setting the record straight, we speak to Patrik Schumacher, the new principal of Zaha Hadid Architects about his vision for not just the firm’s future but also the architectural discipline on the whole. In what can only be termed classic ‘Schumacherism’, he minces no words in this interview as he speaks about his misinterpreted, controversy-ridden manifesto, the idea of starchitecture, the role of critics in the architectural discourse, and parametricism – an approach that relies on data and digital algorithms to formulate design responses to environmental parameters, which he sees as the dominant, single style for contemporary avant-garde practice.

Intelligent Urban Planning And Computational Architecture

Reinhard is Professor for Computational Architecture at Bauhaus-University Weimar and Principal Scientist at the Center for Energy at the Smart and Resilient Cities competence unit at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna. In addition, he acts as Co-PI in the Big Data Informed Urban Design group at the Future Cities Lab (FCL) at the Singapore ETH Centre. His current research interests are applicability of multi-criteria optimization techniques for planning synthesis, cognitive design computing and correlations of computed measures of spatial configurations with human cognition and usage of space.