CURRENT
Latest in architectural exhibitions, news and competitions.

PRODUCTS
Innovative designer products from across the world.

BOOK REVIEW
Heritage & Environment -An Indian Diary
A Personal diary by Chainani describing how BEAG's activities were extended around the country wherever the need arose, and how their efforts have influenced heritage conversation and legislation policies throughout India.

Transmaterial 2
A catalogue of materials that redefine our physical environment. The narrator outlines the "do more with less", where in, new tools allowed" image based topographies and alogorithmically derived surfaces leading to what she calls the "Photoshop effect", where the computer derives the physical surface of the products, buildings and landscape for designers.


CONSTRUCTION BRIEF
Grandiose Drafts
A brief on the six grandiose plans for four different cities which are the highlights of 'Urban Rejuvenation' from across the world.

POST EVENT
Rendezvous with Steel
The event of Steel Construct held in Mumbai brought forth the gradual growth, and empowerment of the Construction and Building industry by Steel.


SUSTAINABILITY
The Built Textbook
A brief on Islandwood, that was created to address two apparently unrelated problems; environment degradation and shortfalls in inner-city environmental education centre.

X'PERIENCE
Spoilt for Choice!
Sourcing new products is a hurdle for designers while reaching out to appropriate clientele is a task for manufactures. International exhibitions provide a perfect opportunity to fulfill both these purposes and the I Saloni Milano 2008 exemplifies this trend to the hilt.

ARCHITECTURE
First take
The write narrates how, in a small tract of land and a restrictive budget, Pune based Architect Prasanna Morey, has built his client's dream home in the rural interiors of Maharashtra.


INTERIORS
Mind your Minimalism
The writer helps us explore the pattern behind the generic minimalist aesthetic that is prevalent in the Indian design industry through the works of architects Meghana Shetty and Suresh Mistry- whose eye for detail and execution, and marketing and networking skills are granting them an increasing prominence in architectural circles.

Reorientating through architecture
A visual walkthrough to the recently completed interiors of the Nokia Siemens Networks in Gurgaon by the Delhi-based firm Via Design which is, but a reflection of an astute clarify of materials, openness and more.

HONOURS
reddot
A narrative on the reddot roduct Design Awards that seeks to honour the outstanding achievers in various fields of manufacturing with the belief that the commercial success of a company and the design quality of its products are closely interlinked.


NOTES TO A CITY
Walking...
Walks and walking tours is popular tourist activity these days; and this photo-text draws attention to how cities are encountered within practices of travelling and seeing.