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Design For A Collaborative Work Culture

In our modern attitude towards work ethos, ‘collaboration’ is the key for efficiency in the workplace. Here’s an office space, with design strategies to inspire positive and collaborative work culture. Rajeev Sathe, the architect uses sepia tones together with minimalistic modern furniture, to create a warm and welcoming office environment, while bringing in a ‘touch of hygge’.

Mandir- An Embodiment of Positive Energy

Flip through the pages of history and you will learn that the ancient homes were built of solid bricks or mud. People only ensured that peace; harmony and prosperity dwelt amid them.

Jindal Mansion - When Work Becomes Art

The contemporary art, the timeless aesthetics and the heritage building – all add up to a curiously anachronistic spatial experience at the Jindal Mansion. The project was completed in two phases.

Edifecs: Office Space With A Soul And Purpose

A workplace often becomes a monotonous space without any meaningful engagement offered to its employees. “The need for a millennial workspace is an everyday brief, but the same is often addressed through googled imagery and borrowed designs that are dressed up in various avatars. Is this creativity!,” exclaims Ar. Vistasp Bhagwagar, MD and Principal Architect, Architect Vistasp & Associates (AVA), a Delhi and Bengaluru based design firm. With this deep thought, they designed an office space to allow people to creatively express themselves, rather than be forced to work within mundane clock hours.

Seamless And Clutter-Free Residence

The luxurious apartment in DLF Capital Green is designed to have an airy and clutter-free look. In this project, by the New Delhi based AND studio, complete sensitivity towards the end user is evident. Intending to accommodate the taste and comfort of every family member, the residence emerges as a beautiful symphony of versatilities.

Evolving Trend Of Crafts In Interiors

Since time immemorial craft has been a part and parcel of the life and culture of the people of India.

Crafts: Past Forward

Integrating hand skills into architecture and design

Kerala Sutra - A Collection Of Inimitable Lights

Kerala Sutra is an endeavour to involve the community and revive their traditions. The key theme of this design project has been to re-discover, re-interpret and represent traditional objects & craft practices of Kerala to create unique pieces of both function and art, linked through a common thread, of being a light source. Discover this journey of illumination.

Commerce Of Crafts

Conserve, curate, collaborate and create

Raw sensual Timeless

Popularly chronicled in the 20th century for its brutal honesty and expression, exposed concrete has always been championed by yesteryear designers. With advancement in technology, revolutionary surface treatments, expansive scale and the ability to merge with a diverse material pallet, concrete is now being used in unexpected and versatile ways.

Artrovert: Conversations in Grey

The recently concluded Artrovert design studio by Anagram Architects enumerates their characteristic collaborative approach, deeply contextual designs and sustainable aesthetics. The award winning design practice helmed by Madhav Raman and Vaibhav Dimri, has once again pushed the envelope by creating an artistic pièce de résistance in distressed concrete.

Celebrating the Legacy of Nakashima: Exhibition & Symposium

There is a special feeling to working with this wood. You realise how long these trees have lived, and it places you in a kind of upstart position. In their presence, you feel humility instead of that arrogance that wants to conquer nature.” 

Temple in Stone and Light, Barmer

India has a glorious history of temple architecture.

Mahaprasthanam – A Hindu Crematorium

The client Phoenix Foundation with the local Municipal Corporation commissioned the studio with the task of evolving a state-of-the-art crematorium from the neglected 3.7 acre existing crematory/cemetery envisaged to accommodate the Hindu cremation rituals, culturally and contextually.

Ramanarayanam Pranganam: A Vision to Create a Spiritual Leisure Space – Anchuri Design World

An industrialist and a visionary Late Shri Narayanam Narasimha Murthy, Founder Chairman of NCS Group, was looking to create a Spiritual theme park for leisure that would convey the epic of Ramayana in a simple yet comprehensive way to the common man.

A Contemporary Confluence of History, Heritage and Interiors

India has a wealth of underutilised heritage buildings that provide unique and exciting opportunities to develop and revitalise. In the ensemble, industry virtuosos champion their vision of transforming and celebrating this restoration, conservation and adaptive re-use of historic forts to dilapidated structures.

Conservation of Community Housing

Cama Building at Murzban Colony in Mumbai

Illuminating Personal Choices

Every room in your house can be magically transformed through carefully curated lighting. With strategically employed lighting techniques you can enhance the ambience of a space and the purpose it serves. Discover below, the secret tips and tricks of quality lighting to fit any home decor.

Samsung Library And Ideation Hub: A Unison Of Collaboration And Contemplation

‘Vyom’ in Sanskrit means an infinite, limitless space. Delving into the design of the undefined space, VYOM, a leading architecture firm from New Delhi, has designed the Samsung Library and Ideation Hub in Noida. Fostering a vibrant unison of collaboration and contemplation, the library and ideation hub sets itself apart as a distinct benchmark in the domain of library spaces.

Green Industrial Dynamism

Designing an industrial campus is equally challenging like any other built- forms; it is not just a block of buildings that are bleak in appearance. Elcom International Pvt. Ltd., an exporter and manufacturer of electronic components and consumer products, approached Beri Urban & Environmental Planners LLP (BBUEP), with a complete rebranding strategy, to conceive and design a green industrial and research facility. The Elcom campus is tactfully designed blending in perfect geometry of forms and sustainable principles.

H & R Johnson launches ‘Johnson International' with Brand Ambassador – Katrina Kaif

H & R Johnson (India), leaders in the ceramic industry, today launched their new and innovative range of premium sanitaryware and faucets – Johnson International – at Park Regis in Goa.

PEI Is No Longer Lingering In The Gardens Of Suzhou

On the 16th of May, 2019 in Shanghai where I have set up a studio to design The Eye of Wisdom, I awoke to the news that “Ieoh Ming Pei, aged 102, is no more!”

Transparent Workzone

The design purpose for DCA Architects was to provide a workspace that augments the well-being of its users in addition to their professional productivity.

The Brick Story

The Brick Store designed by Vadodara based Modi Srivastava & Associates is a gallery-like experience centre for designers and developers to visit with their clients for an appropriate brick selection from an extensive collection.

H&R Johnson

H&R Johnson introduces a ground-breaking Virtual Reality (VR) Platform at their new age stores – House of Johnson Experience Centers

IIID-HRC'S Movie Screening "Celebrating Habitat"Ar.B.V.Doshi

It was a treat for the creative soul at the IIID- HRC knowledge sharing event on Friday, 30th March 2018, held at Prasad’s Preview Labs.

Sustaining Crafts Reflecting On The Role Of Collaborative And Studio-Based Practice

Craft involves a rigorous process to convert a material into a product that has utility as well as an aesthetic quality associated with it. These processes have been developed over time and generations. However, traditional craft, now and again, appears to be divorced from innovative practice and the generation of ideas and, thus, inhibits the cognitive and the conceptual development. Also, at times, some crafts communities are confined to the boundaries of their region and thus, remain unexposed to the globalised world. This offers a great threat to craftspeople and pushes these deep-rooted traditional handmade products out, replacing them with mass-produced, factory-made, mechanized goods. However, collaborative and studio-based practice models can help bring awareness amongst craftspeople about trending designs and new techniques for meeting the demand of the variety-seeking consumers.

Vis À Vis - Generating Dialogue Between Lighting, Architecture And Design

With a vision to propagate light in architecture, Hardeep and Amit Gupta, the co-founders of vis à vis India Pvt. Ltd., have seen the company grow from a nascent lighting industry to one of the leading companies of the country. Driven by passion, integrity, commitment and creativity, it is an integrated architectural lighting solutions company that truly preaches and practices ‘lighting being the fourth dimension of architecture.’ The projects ranging from hospitality, airports, commercial and residential spaces, vis à vis’s drive in perfecting the art of lighting stands apart.

New Technology – Tools For Lighting Design

Lighting elements play a pivotal role. not only in enhancing the mood of any space, but also in transforming any area into a seamless combination of functionality and style. Paul Helms Design Consultants, (PH DC), an international lighting design practice, is known for designing and delivering high profile projects worldwide. The expertise of this firm lies in offering lighting design, architecture, industrial design, interior architecture and knowledge of solid-state engineering.

An Edificial Approach To Lighting

Ravi Sarangan, co-founder of Edifice Consultants Pvt. Ltd., speaks about how he and his team approach lighting design, and the importance of a well integrated system focusing on the individual users and the local context.