CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Zero Initiative
Profiling the Masdar City - the world's first zero-carbon, Zero-waste, car-free city, which aims to exceed the 10 sustainability principles of "One Planet living".
FOCUS - YOUNG DESIGNERS
New Directions in Emerging Practices
This feature addresses the new directions the architecture profession follows; the factors that influence an architectural practice, how designs are developed and the client designer relationship.
Habitat in Hamlet
A story of the adaptation of the Indian Vernacular habitat from the rural outskirts of ahmedabad.
The Sculpted Home
Living spaces that nourish the concept of 'family', story of a 'Sculpted Cube', designed for the Gandhi Family, residing in Pune's busiest road by KEN-ARCH architects
Showcasing the interior
Featuring the interiors of Ashish interbuild office, designed to exhibit their work as the company itself.
Creative Clinic
Exploring the designing of an ayurvedic clinic and an architect's office in Pune, that evokes healing and creativity.
Spatial Manevours
Graphics and colours, carricature and geometry; a dramatic look in a carefully placed lighting - all in a small residential apartment in Mumbai.
Brand Identity
A pleasing ambience can be constructed even within a short period of time-Space Design Architecture Studio demonstrates this in the design of Hakoba Club.
Butterflies on the ground
Designing of the light and perforated farm house, Sushanthi by hydraPOD architecture + allied
Raising from the River
A compact college with its accompanying cultural activities in a unique topography-that is the IET College campus, Surat. Done by Van Sthapthi, this landscape design has playful environment that encourages users to be children again.
FOCUS - YOUNG DESIGNERS (INTERNATIONAL)
Key to Origins
Not simply a way of summarising the qualities of a place, but attributes value to the characteristics as a function of human intervention-that is Terroir. Featuring this young firm's work
Speculative Environments
Can digital arena, become a playground for intersecting research, technology, and practice, innovation combining strategic development and conceptual design? Offshore Studio explores this possibility
Signature Facades
Studio 505 creates facades with inspiration as software and material technique as hardware
Split Wide Open
The design of Ashfold Museum of Art by Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, indicate how art has established itself in cultures across the world between the exotic to the market.
The thinking Tetris
Exploring the apartment house Gradaksha in Slovenia as a productive conflict of contexts, tectonic textures, and programmatic device that will help urbanity to futures of complex realities.
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LOCUS
Tokyology
Rahul Srivastava & Matias Echanove speak of a comparison between the two contrasting cities- Mumbai & Tokyo and questions why Mumbai can't love its slums and see them as legitimate parts of the city.
CULTURE COUNTS
Values in Conservation
Is conservation most fragile? Is the need to be contemporary crucial? Is it a static process? Does it guarantee immortality or merely contribute to the history of the building? Amita Baig & Dr. Shikha Jain explores.
NOTHING CONCRETE
Bye, Bye Butter Sheet
G. Shankar Narayan shares his memories of being a 'butter sheet man' in the office days when drafting table & drawing board was the medium of usage than the present day digital technology, which has stunted the design evolution of young minds.
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