Studio Lotus’ Design for the Mountain Resort’s Public Spaces Borrows from the Vernacular and Regional History Taj Theog is a 90-key, luxury resort that sits on a cliff on the periphery of Theog, a remote...

Cantilevered cuboid volumes create a sculptural office building in Chennai, India. Located in the old business district of Chennai in South India, the plot had multiple challenges to be overcome. With very narrow access from...

The Indian Himalayas, a steep mountain landscape through which the sacred Ganges River meanders, is a nature that supersedes all human construction. For the development of the hotel complex Taj Rishikesh, it was this modesty in...

When really designed for people, architecture improves the environment and supports human lives. Guided by this overall aim, in 2010 the Italian NPO (non-profit organization) Made in Earth (MiE) has started collaborating with the...

'Proximity to the boardrooms, the conceptualization of  Ayoki Fabricon essentially is formal, adding the aesthetic splendor and significance from the global presence. The cabin in each corner is a venerable neighbor incited the use...

Kai Early Years, Whitefield, Bengaluru - an early childhood campus designed by Education Design Architects demonstrates a ‘third-teacher’ learning environment that nurtures the developmental needs of children aged two to six years through an...

As typologies of cafés become more than just an eatery, and transforming into art galleries, co-working and gathering spaces develop around the world – the design brief of Modernist Coffee was to cleverly unite...

Located on the outskirts of Bangalore, the site is spread across 1.5 acre of flat land with coconut trees covering the whole site in a grid manner. The focus by Parallax was to design a...

Settled into the valley slope above the small village of Lavale, Avasara Academy is a residential school for economically disadvantaged young women in western India. Located just outside the urban periphery of Pune, the school...

Winner - the 2019 Aga Khan Award Arcadia Education Project, in South Kanarchor, a modular  structure – incorporating space for a preschool, a hostel, a nursery and a vocational training centre – that takes a novel...

Wasit Wetland Centre, in Sharjah, a design that transformed a wasteland into a wetland and functioned as a catalyst for biodiversity and environmental education. While its indigenous ecosystem has been restored, it has also proven...

Vaishnavi and Raja established “My first school” with a zeal to improve the quality of education in their hometown of Tiruvanamalai. The school progressed rapidly and needed a larger campus setup - a place...

Located on a long and irregularly narrow site in Trivandrum with its longer side facing west, the project The BRICKHAUS, Keralam, India designed by / Srijit Srinivas - ARCHITECTS is both a place of...

"We are part of nature in a deep and fundamental way, but in our modern lives, we’ve lost that connection. Our studio envisions home and city design that respects both inhabitants and the environment,...

Unique Store Fixtures wins International Design Award Gold for New KitKat Chocolatory at Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto, Canada Unique Store Fixtures was awarded gold in the global A’ Design Award, in the 2019–2020 Interior Space and...

'It is, as though, a design very much inscribed in the Portuguese architectural culture both in its organization and materials, with oak flooring throughout and Estremoz marble on the wet areas', says Tiago do...

"The client wanted to amplify the spaciousness of the four bedroom duplex apartment making it boundless as well as give a distinct appeal to the entire space making it aesthetically pleasing.  Keeping every aspect...

The design of Guwahati City Centre is a celebration of the Sun, using the abundant daylight through the atriums, thereby creating a special ambience within. Reinterpreting the traditional courtyard planning in an innovative way,...

'Getting an opportunity to design a terrace garden in the heart of Mumbai was very exciting as well as challenging' says Ar. Rohit Deshpande, Ar. Mugdha Deshpande, Dymaxion Architects This terrace garden is a well-crafted...

Crafting Glass – UNStudio completes two new retail remodels featuring bespoke glass designs. During the Corona outbreak, at UNStudio we are taking all the necessary measures to safeguard our employees and our running projects, as...

For the new Isakaya Kinoya, Montréal, Canada, Jean De Lessard - Designers Creatifs design firm chose to explore the orthogonality and the verticality of space. The morphology of the narrow two-story premises located on Bishop Street,...

The brief for this small and elegant 2 BHK flat was just two words – SIMPLE & WARM. These were my client's words in our preliminary meeting', says Ar. Rohit Deshpande and Ar. Mugdha...

A Red Steel Circle. A ring that embraces, passing under the new bridge designed by Renzo Piano, an area of iron, water, concrete and asphalt. The Polcevera Park and the Red Circle has been...

"We are a small group of designers working from Mumbai, India. Our philosophy is 'use of resources to maximum advantage with minimal use of energy and material for design and environment'. The design philosophy...

The project Base De Vie in the Red Desert, Adrar, Algeria by Ar. Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with Francesco Nissardi proposes a “water chain” capable of managing, collecting and channelling the water system in its different...

Marseilles is connected to its sea, the Mediterranean, through an axis that connects north to south there where its harbour turns towards east and looks west. To the west, the horizon and many other that...

Imbibing the organic character of Indian villages & old cities, the Rajasthan School, Ras, Nagaur designed by Sanjay Puri Architects is a low rise 3 level school with open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of...

A series of architectural volumes create an office for a furniture contract company within their factory. Volumes within volumes lend each functional part of the office their own identity. A large reception space is punctuated...

MVRDV completes Tainan Spring, a lush lagoon and park in the preserved ruin of a mall in central Tainan Tainan Spring is a public space design that includes the transformation of a former city-centre shopping...

Amaltas’ (a regional name for Cassia Fistula), as a rural residential retreat, particularly addresses distinct spatial domesticity by facilitating the requirements of its singular inhabitant i.e. the client herself, as opposed to the typicality...

When Ar. Anoj Tevatia talks about his recent designs for affordable housing, he is all praise for the central government, specially the Prime Minister’s jibe with ‘Housing for all’ scheme that sets ambitious goals...

The site Parva, Hubbali, Karnataka designed by the architects for themselves (Kabbur architects) faces an open plot meant for park as per CDP. It is slightly elevated from the foreground and major part of the...

The design team (Ar Spoorti Kabbur Pawar, Ar Suhas Kabbur, Ar Priya T, Amrut Pawar) at Kabbur Architects facilitated the choice for the restaurant Gobble and Go near the Pune-Bangalore highway, a busy and...

The Canvas has developed an iconic workplace in to mirror the TATA Sky brand whose new offices are located in Mumbai, India. Says the design team, "The brand and its jingle is so iconic that we wanted this...

The challenge for the architect at ACad Studio, Gurugram was to create an office in the basement, which will cater 4 different companies but should look like one big company’s office. The challenge was segregate the...

The client's brief was to design commercial building comprising of offices, showrooms and recreational spaces. One of the key objectives of the design of commercial building was to utilize the available ground coverage as...

Totem - a natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem. "The significance of Totem in worship comes from our roots...

The cottage house designed by SuhasKabbur & Spoorti Kabbur of Kabbur Architects was an experiment to provide leisure of a cottage in a semi-urban area ie: Bagalkot (Navanagar). The requirement from the client was a...

A perfect blend of elegance and functionally, incorporated in the design elements and furniture. To design a space with contemporary approach was the desire expressed by the clients to achieve the same, the office was...

“Landmark vertica" is an uber luxury residential tower located majestically on the upmarket peters road in Chennai. The project comprises an eclectic mix of carefully crafted luxury dwellings interlaced with spaces of recreation, interaction &...

Interior Design Laboratorium discovers the island of Paros and presents a holistic design for Parilio, a member of Design Hotels, a project inspired by the stripped splendor of Cycladic architecture, the pure land of Paros...

Lucknow city in India has a rich heritage with numerous buildings dating back to the 18th century. The site for 18 Screens, Lucknow lies along a busy arterial road and is on the peripheral edge...

"Our intention is to realize a sober and mastered project, materialized by the use of wood, structural, which constitutes the whole of the project. This structural unity expresses its poetry through the facades of...

Sweet Garden is a concept store designed by Athens-based ADD Architecture Studio in Arachova, Greece. Having to cope with the programmatic use of pastry, sweet bakery, coffee and ice cream, the design aspired to create...

We were given a task for design & build for OLIVA -Skin & Hair clinics PAN India. It is a constant reminder of the power and impact of design. As designers, we often must...

Designed for encouraging the growing power loom & handloom industries in the rich textile belt of Erode-Tirupur-Coimbatore, Texvalley is a bold initiative by the Ministry of Textiles to put up an integrated state of...

The building, International Spy Museum, Washington D.C. designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners reaches the city’s height limit of 130-ft from grade in just seven stories. Its most prominent features are the angled façades...

M Moser Associates completed the design for the Booking.com offices located in Mumbai, India. M Moser has cultivated a long-standing relationship with Booking.com having worked on numerous global projects with them over the years. Considering Booking.com’s core design...

“Traditional masterplans focus on general layout and urban planning. Our Urban Branding Manual on the other hand, concentrates on experience and how to translate this experience into reality. With a network of specialists -...

The project is situated at Jima Village in the east of Yangshuo — a famous tourist county surrounded by karst mountains, winding rivers and beautiful scenery. The name "Jima" in Chinese is very poetic,...

The project is an upscale restaurant serving private home-style cuisine, which is located in Shantou, China, designed by Jingu Phoenix Space Planning Organization. In traditional Chinese culture, pine, bamboo and plum blossom are known...

Anguera, Bahia, Brasil designed by Tiago do Vale Architects is filled with singularities. A project that is as much about what is built as it is about its communication. In the interior of the Brazilian Northeast,...

TOWOdesign created an exhibition space for 2018 Design Dream Show (DDS) in Shanghai. DDS is a cluster exhibition that leads the design trend in the furniture industry, with 23 exhibitors taking part in the...

The Kumbh camps are designed and set up for each of the Kumbh Melas, to accommodate the mass influx of pilgrims for the event. Undertaken for a Spiritual Organization, temporary premises were set up for...

Space Matrix and Airbnb Environments Team have collaborated to create an innovative design for the offices of Airbnb located in Gurgaon, India. An industrial warehouse was the chosen location for Airbnb’s new global facility in Gurgaon, India. They...

Concept Consilio India has communicated the “Spirit of Mumbai” in the design for Boston Consulting Group‘s new offices located in Mumbai, India. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) office in BKC, Mumbai is a unique space designed to...

The Screen Box in Dubai designed by Lakshmi Chand Singh of Home by Design is minimal in design. Minimally yet purposefully detailed, the steel frame does not distinguish between the top of the building and...

'Being a winter Kumbh, the work has to be executed in freezing temperatures with some spells of rain raising the level of difficulty; adding to the challenge, the land for the camp is allotted...

Software campus design inspired by the important role courtyards play in traditional Indian architecture. “This is a transformative building that engages India’s rich history to guide its future. Rooted in elements that define India, the...

The brief received from the client was to do something that is not ordinary yet classy; it should look luxurious but has to be within the budget. Hence, reNNovate interiors planned to break free from the hotel...

The design concept behind The Garden - a casual dining restaurant in Pantai Indah Kapuk, North Jakarta, Indonesia is lush tropical garden with colourful flower, which derived from the real garden in indoor area with the...

The campus of SKV school itself acts as the primary design factor. The vast mango grooves, the shade giving existing trees on site and also the restored natural pond define the design language of...

The Tagore Theatre is a cultural landmark. Constructed 50 years ago by Ar. Aditya Prakash, the theatre has served the city for a long, eventful time. Owing to wear and tear, the theatre had...

Anant Raj Group, Delhi – a group established in 1969, owning to its credit landmark projects created through 3 decades of trust and experience; in perseverance to conceive their edifice tech-park sought creative excellence of...

Balkrishna Doshi's own studio, Sangath, features a series of sunken vaults sheathed in china mosaic as well as a small grassy terraced amphitheater and flowing water details. Having been considered the building that fully...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was Wright’s first project in New York City. The project is well known for its spiral core and is the only museum designed by the architect. Little do people...

The Villa Tugendhat was commissioned by the wealthy newlyweds Grete & Fritz Tugendhat, a Jewish couple with family money from textile manufacturing companies in Brno. The couple met Mies van der Rohe in Berlin in...

As part of the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona Spain, the Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Mies van der Rohe, was the display of architecture's modern movement to the world.  Originally named the German Pavilion,...

The Stoned project has been nominated for the MiesAward 2019. ELASTICOSPA signs Stoned project, where the architecture studio plans the type of intervention, from recovery to demolition and reconstruction, to the choice of the materials for the...

Space Matrix, an office design company, was engaged by fashion clothing brand, Superdry, to design their offices located in Gurugram, India. Superdry is an exciting contemporary brand which focuses on high-quality products which are an output of...

Gafarim House - A Northern Monolith, Ponte de Lima, Portugal designed by Tiago do Vale Arquitectos is a project of tense duality between vernacular principles and a neoplastic understating of shape, place and landscape. In a naturally...

The design idea was to have a modern house inspired by the family’s roots in Kerala, India. The architects at Kamat & Rozario Architecture looked towards traditional palace construction of Kerala for inspiration. They...

What was once a grey, isolated office location in Amsterdam-West will soon become a green, lively neighbourhood of around 750 homes, thanks to MVRDV’s strategic master plan for a former ING office complex. Located...

Cygnus World School at Vadodara for Jan-Priya Trust, Delhi is our country’s 1st PLATINUM rated, green building, conceptualized by Ar. Prem Nath of Prem Nath & Associates, having more than 1.8 lakh square feet of...

'The project-The Nalanda International School, Vadodara is one close to our heart. It was commissioned by a client for whom we have done a variety of work over the years. This project was part...

The SEPIA store designed by Ar. Akshat Bhatt of Architecture Discipline for Furniture Republic is inspired by scenes from Indian streets.  The ever-present hawker protected from the elements by a simple bight coloured plastic drape, the seemingly...

The Hotel Jukaso Ganges, by ITC Welcomheritage, at Guleria Ghat, designed by architect Mudita Agrawal, this stunning new boutique hotel exemplifies the sensitivity required for adaptive re-use projects. The property is tucked between the...

“We thought that it was very important to have at the center of New Zuid district a new green spot that, whether in the courtyard or on roofgardens, hosts a relevant amount of trees...

The project - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat is an ongoing preservation and restoration project of conserving the built fabric of the iconic and modern heritage structures, originally designed by Louis I Kahn....

The Next Generation of Skyscrapers: MVRDV Redefines the Tower with Vanke Headquarters Competition Win in Shenzhen MVRDV (who recently completed their first project in Pune, India - Future Towers, https://www.sawdust.online/2020/projects/future-towers-pune-mvrdv/) has now won the competition organized by Chinese...

The concept for the residence, ‘A Perfect Retreat’ Mumbai, Maharashtra, India’ designed by architect Reza Kabul, Reza Kabul Architects Pvt Ltd. is a fusion of contemporary and Balinese style, complementing into each other. The colour scheme...

UNStudio’s TBC Forum – a new open, flexible and interactive approach to financial institutions - breaks ground in Tbilisi today. The design for the new TBC Forum - located in Tbilisi, Georgia - proposes a...

It is commonly seen that a plot to be designed is normally rectangular or square in shape. Designer Manish Kumat confronted a very complicated project which was a triangular plot with 3,700-sq.ft. area and...

A new democratic nation was born in 2007 when His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuk abdicated his throne, declaring Crown Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk to be the new King and declaring Bhutan as constitutional...

Taking a cue from the old city streets of Mathura city in India where this project is located, this 800 room students’ hostel-The Street, Hostel @ GLA University designed by Sanjay Puri Architects creates...

Singapore is currently one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Although land reclamation has boosted the island’s size over the years, Singapore still faces significant density challenges. Vertical expansion has for some...

"Urban Alchemy 9 is a social experiment by which we tried to capture the essence of Goa by trying to strike the perfect balance between functionality, design, history, culture and most importantly nature". Ankit Prabhudessai Goa...

MVRDV’s Future Towers Adds Over 1,000 New Residential Units to Pune, India in a Single Building MVRDV has completed its first project in India, Future Towers. Located in Pune, India’s 8th largest city and one...

T2-115 Unit 115 is mainly focused on the daily life under the beauty-appreciation value of the elite. With fashionable style, much attention is paid to the combination of layout and functions of the room.  There is an...

The Church (restored 2002 - 2003) in 1865 the apse end of the church was extended and re-built in a neo Gothic Style, then in vogue. In 1921 as part of an improvement program,...

The site chosen for this small addition of a children’s library within a school in rural Maharashtra, was a sliver between existing buildings and the school boundary, a site that almost implied a linear...

"An interesting facet of The Scotts Tower is the way that it reacts to the urban context of Singapore. Instead of the more usual means of planning a city horizontally, we have created neighbourhoods...

The Communique Marketing Solutions Office, Gurugram, India designed by groupDCA creates a modern and egalitarian workspace in an effort to foster creativity, collaboration, and conversation. Its spatial planning emerges as a direct result of this...

Sunrise Garden Restaurant designed by M9 Design Studio is located in the industrial suburb of Bangalore. The project was conceived using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down.  A...

Studio Saransh, located in Ahmedabad, is designed as a place of work for a design firm. Located on the fourth floor in a relatively old residential building, the two penthouses were used as an...

UNStudio partners with Hardt Hyperloop and presents its vision for the Station of the Future. Ben van Berkel, Principal Architect and Founder of UNStudio and UNSense: ‘The hyperloop is not only a realistic and viable...

Rajabai Clock Tower and Mumbai University Library building was a preservation and restoration project of a Grade I heritage building at Fort Precinct in South Mumbai. The Restoration of the once tallest structure in...

Introduction The date given to inaugurate the restored and refurbished building of Bombay House, Fort, Mumbai was 29th July 2018 J.R.D. Tata’s birthday. This time constraint made the task an almost impossible one, but...

A new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus is being created in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, by the Government of India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to deliver world-class patient care, cutting-edge research, and education. The...

Setter Architects designed the new offices of GE Healthcare, located in Haifa, Israel. GE Healthcare engages in research and development of medical imaging via MRI/CT. The architects launched their design process by analysing what the company does and...