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28 Jan 2023
Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect, Dies aged 95
The first Indian to receive the Pritzker Prize, he developed a distinctive approach to building for his country:
RIBA 2022 Gold Medal for Architecture

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3 Nov 2022
Baardos La Citta, New Delhi
Architects: Studio Dangg

photos : Suryan & Dang
Baardos La Citta New Delhi

31 Oct 2022
Dawar House, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Architecture: Studio Archohm

photo © Andre Fanthome
Dawar House
The definition of ‘luxury’ has come a long way from the times of antiquity to modernity. Additionally, the interpretations of ‘urban contemporary’ have been constantly evolving as consequential phenomena of iterations in engineering, materials, technology, processes and need.

17 Oct 2022
Ladhani House, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, northern India
Architecture: Studio Archohm

photo © André J. Fanthome
Hanging House, Noida, Uttar Pradesh

9 Sep 2022
Residence 145, Chandigarh, north western India
Design: Charged Voids led by Architect Aman Aggarwal
Residence 145, southern Chandigarh property

18 Aug 2022
This Is The Place, Mumbai
Architecture: Giles Miller Studio

photo © Edvinas Bruzas
This Is The Place, Mumbai

16 Aug 2022
Amity International School, Mohali, Punjab
Architecture: Vijay Gupta Architects

photo : Avesh Gaur
Amity International School, Mohali Punjab
Learning environments play a pivotal role in a child’s life by creating a conducive character for overall growth and development. Spaces can create memories and enhance the learning experience greatly. The innovative approach to design for the Amity International School in Mohali, Punjab, attempts to go beyond the rigid morphology of educational spaces and planning.

22 July 2022
Mehra Residence, New Rajender Nagar, New Delhi
Architects: team3
Mehra Residence, New Delhi

5 July 2022
Mirai, Bhilwara, Rajasthan, western India
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

photo : Dinesh Mehta
Mirai House of Arches, Rajasthan
Designed on a small 622sqm corner plot of a residential villa layout, Mirai is a contextual house in response to the hot desert climate of Rajasthan, India. Based on the location, the southern & eastern sides have minimum open space, with adjacent villas on those sides planned for development in the future.

16 Jun 2022
Narmada Bio Chem HQ, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Northwestern India
Architecture: Openideas

photos : Sebastian Zachariah-Photographix and Panchkon- Harsh pandya
Narmada BioChem HQ, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
The client, Narmada Bio Chem Ltd is engaged in producing fertilizers for the agricultural sector. With an imminent IPO and the need to consolidate operations of three distinct locations into one, this project was seeded in creating an entity that would inspire trust in business partners and embody the company’s growth. The brief, then, specified a simple building which would reflect the organization’s ethos and identity.

3 June 2022
Lilavati Lalbhai Library, CEPT University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, western India
Architect: RMA Architects / Rahul Mehrotra

photo : Dinesh Mehta
Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University
The library acts as a living case study of passive climate mitigation strategies, high on the teaching agenda at CEPT University (formerly Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology). Its materials respect those of the campus’s existing buildings, and placing three of its six storeys underground keeps it within their height datum.

1 June 2022
The Terracotta House, Agra, northern India
Design: Archohm

photo © Noughts and Crosses
The Terracotta House Agra

10 April 2022
Educliff Global School, Bihar

1 April 2022
91/4, Panchkula, Haryana, northern India
Design: Studio Ardete

image courtesy of architects practice
House 91/4 in Panchkula, Haryana

1 Apr 2022
Stacked Dwelling, Maharashtra, Mumbai, northwestern India
Architecture: DIG Architects

photo : Phxindia
Stacked Dwelling, Maharashtra Mumbai

28 Mar 2022
Never Never Cube, Sec -82 Mohali, Punjab
Design: Studio Ardete

photo : Ar.Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Never Never Cube, Punjab Office Building
Never Never Cube is located in sec-82 Mohali, a grooming industrial area, this project is a commercial building owning a major focus on being leased out for offices or display centres in the corporate arena. Confirming to the local building norms, it is an open laid out plan with fixed height which leaves the designer with the facade to romance with.

28 Mar 2022
Sanjaynagar, Ahmednagar, Mumbai
Architecture: Community Design Agency

photo : Rajesh Vora
Sanjaynagar Homes + Neighborhood, Mumbai
Today in a slum called Sanjaynagar, located in Ahmednagar 150 miles from Mumbai, residents are celebrating the move-in day for 33 families into safe, healthy, and attractive new homes. Sanjaynagar is a tight-knit and resilient community of 298 families, living in slum conditions spread over just two acres of municipal land.

14 Mar 2022
Studios 90, Kodla, Karnataka, south western India
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

photo : Ricken Desai
Studios 90 Kodla
A composition of coloured cuboids defines this sculptural residential project. The brief for the Studios 90 mid-rise buildings in Kodla, Karnataka, India was to create studio apartments, a hostel, and a guest house to house workers of a new cement plant, on the perimeter of a housing project for a residential township.

9 Feb 2022
Ladhani House, 153 Sector-15a Noida, New Delhi
Design: Archohm

photos by Fantham © Noughts And Crosses
Ladhani House Noida
The Ladhani House is a thoughtful approach towards designing residential spaces for new age clients. The design of the spaces departs from the ideas which focused on the past characteristics of vernacular Indian households and follows rather a contemporary theme.

1 Feb 2022
MAP Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, Karnataka, southern India
Architecture: Matthew & Ghosh

image : Matthew & Ghoshe
MAP Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore
MAP Museum of Art and Photography, India’s first museum of South Asian visual culture, will open in the global city of technology, Bangalore, in late 2022. The museum will be housed in a state of the art 44,000 square foot building, designed by the acclaimed Indian architectural practice Matthew & Ghosh, on a landmark site at the heart of Bangalore’s museums district.

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21 Dec 2021
Prestige University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

image courtesy of architects practice
Prestige University Indore
Prestige University is situated within a 32-acre university campus. The main administration offices, along with an auditorium, seminar halls, library & cafeteria, form the functions of this building.

8 Nov 2021
The Camellias Club, Gurugram, Haryana, northern India
Design: Rockwell Group

photo courtesy of DLF
The Camellias in Gurugram, Haryana
India’s largest real estate developer, DLF officially unveils The Camellias Club: one of the largest wellbeing and leisure residential facilities in the world: a futuristic urban oasis for residents of DLF’s new super-luxury residence The Camellias in Gurugram.

21 Sep 2021
Prestige Liberty Towers, Mumbai
Architects: OMA / Iyad Alsaka

image courtesy of architecture office
Prestige Liberty Towers, Mumbai
Home to the country’s oldest stock exchange, its most important banks, and Bollywood, whose film production far outpaces its American counterpart, Mumbai is the engine of India’s economic growth. Today’s Mumbai is the result of a fast-paced modernization that clearly reflects in its urban tissue.

20 September 2021
Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore
Architect: Mathew & Ghosh Architects

The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), located in the heart of the museum district of Bangalore, the capital city of the southern state of Karnataka in India, is scheduled to open to the public in late Spring 2022. The new five-storey building is designed by the acclaimed Indian architectural firm, Mathew & Ghosh Architects, based in Bangalore.

The founding collection of MAP, one of the largest in India with over 18,000 works, has been donated by philanthropist and collector, Abhishek Poddar. Developed over the past three decades, the collection includes paintings, photography, textiles, graphic art, illustrations, sculptures and installations.

The collection will now be made available to the public for the first time, revealing the riches of India’s visual culture from the 10th century to the present day. This pioneering initiative, with extensive education programmes, aims to make a significant contribution to the revival of the cultural landscape of the city of Bangalore and beyond – encouraging young people and families to enjoy museum-going as part of their daily lives.
https://map-india.org/

16 July 2021
Gurudwara Nirmal Kutiya, Jalandhar, Punjab, northern India
Design: Space Race Architects

image courtesy of architects practice
Gurudwara Nirmal Kutiya Building
Gurudwara Nirmal Kutiya by Space Race Architects in India has won the WA Award, 34th Cycle for the realized category. The contemporary take of this Gurdwara creates its presence internationally and is visited by a good number of pilgrims having ardent faith in Sikhism from across the globe.

2 July 2021
Architecture competition Siemens Healthineers Campus, Bengaluru
Design: Eller + Eller Architects – 1st prize

image courtesy of architects practice
Siemens Healthineers Campus Bengaluru Competition
Furthering its enduring commitment to India, Siemens Healthineers plans to hire additional 1,800 skilled digital tech experts to expand its digital capabilities in the next 10 years. The innovation hub will be housed in a new campus that will combine R&D and manufacturing to make India a center of competence for the design and development of entry-level products.

2 July 2021
The Infinite Frames, Surat
Design: interior WORKSHOP
The Infinite Frames Surat

24 June 2021
The Manjeri Residence, Kerala
The Manjeri Residence

16 June 2021
An Idyllic Escape in Manjeri, Malappuram district, Kerala, south west India
Design: Simone de Gale with Arshak Architects
House in Manjeri

14 June 2021
Residence 1, Ansal Sushant, city of Panipat, Haryana, northern India
Design: 23DC Architects, Jalandhar, Punjab
House in Ansal Sushant

25 May 2021
Bliss County Amusement Park, Nashik

24 May 2021
KPIT Office Interior, Pune Maharashtra

6 May 2021
La Midas Wellness Centre, Gurgaon, New Delhi
Architects: Creative Designer Architects

photo Courtesy architecture office
La Midas Wellness Centre
The architects office have refurbished a twenty-year-old residential dwelling into a wellness centre. The design expression is envisioned to be viewed as bold street furniture amidst its residential surroundings, making it a contributor to the skyline of Gurgaon.

9 Apr 2021
The Cantilever House, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, northern India
Design: ZED Lab Architects

photo Courtesy architecture office
The Cantilever House, Ghaziabad
A recently completed project by ZED Lab – The Cantilever House, Ghaziabad, India. ZED Lab are a Delhi-based, research-driven and interior design studio specializing in net-zero energy buildings since 2009.

13 Feb 2021
Boys Hostel Gurugram, Haryana

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6 Nov 2020
Fusion Villa Jalandhar, Punjab

25 Oct 2020
Maya Somaiya Library, Sharda School, Kopergaon, Maharashtra
Design: Sameep Padora & Associates

photograph : Edmund Sumner
Maya Somaiya Library Building
Alluding to the impetus that children have towards landscape over a building we imagined the library building to be a formal extension of the ground plane. A place inside for study and a place above for play.

22 Oct 2020
Sangini House, Surat, Gujarat
Design: Urbanscape Architects and Utopia Designs

photo : Noughts and Crosses LLP | Andre Fanthome
Sangini House, Gujarat Offices
The architecture and design of Sangini House explores ways in which it can respond to the context and spirit of the heritage in which it stands. This office building for the Sangini group characterizes new strategies for a flexible, column-free office space that creates a new urban venture in the city’s dense business district.

6 Oct 2020
SIS Primary School, Gurugram, New Delhi
Design: Urbanscape Architects

photo courtesy of architects
SIS Primary School, Gurugram
SIS Primary School was designed as a primary institution that aims to promote the overall development of a child, the school seeks to immerse children in a creative milieu, building new relationships and ways of engaging with the external environment.

22 Sep 2020
Taj Rishikesh Spa Resort Complex, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, Northern India
Design: yh2

photograph : Maxime Brouillet
Taj Rishikesh Spa Resort Complex
The Indian Himalayas, a steep mountain landscape through which the sacred Ganges River meanders, is a nature that supersedes all human construction.

10 Sep 2020
Akshaya 27, Chennai
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

photos Courtesy BRS Sreenag, Sreenag Pictures
Akshaya 27 Chennai Office Building
Cantilevered cuboid volumes create a sculptural office building, Akshaya 27. Located in the old business district of Chennai in South India, the plot had multiple challenges to be overcome. The design is by Sanjay Puri.

3 Sep 2020
18 Screens House in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

31 Aug 2020
Life CMF Primary Healthcare Building

6 Aug 2020
Garden Bay Township in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

4 Aug 2020
B23 House in New Delhi

17 July 2020
The Discovery Centre in Bangalore, Karnataka

5 July 2020
Barrier Free Abode in Jalandhar

2 July 2020
Excellenseaa 126 Apartments in Surat, Gujarat

9 June 2020
Hive House in Surat, Gujarat

28 May 2020
Office for Urbanscape in New Delhi

7 May 2020
Hotel Devi Ratn in Jaipur, Rajasthan

7 Apr 2020
Aarya Club Resort in Rajkot, Gujarat

31 Mar 2020
The Screen House New Delhi Residence

30 Mar 2020
Overlapping Volumes Apartment Hyderabad

27 Mar 2020
Swarna House in Vijayawada

23 Mar 2020
Aria Resort Hotel, Nashik, Maharashtra, western India
Architecture: Sanjay Puri Architects

photograph : Dinesh Mehta
Aria Resort Hotel in Nashik, Maharashtra
The site for the Aria Hotel is gently contoured rising up 9M towards the south with the entry at the lowest level in the north. Situated in the wine-growing region of India, the north faces a large river and a dam with hills beyond.

21 Mar 2020
Kolkata Building News – West Bengal Architecture

18 Mar 2020
The Rajasthan School, Nagaur, Rajasthan

photo : Dinesh Mehta
The Rajasthan School in Nagaur
Imbibing the organic character of Indian villages & old cities, this is a low-rise three-level school building with open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of various volumes.

22 Jan 2020
#7, Southlands, Mumbai
Design: SquareWorks

photo Courtesy Fabien Charuau
Retrofitting an Art-Deco Apartment in Mumbai
Southlands is an integrative endeavor aiming to rejuvenate an old 1930 Art-Deco Apartment in Mumbai, to accommodate the postulated requirements of a modern-day multiuser collective. The project intends to celebrate the inherent quintessence of a sangfroid ‘Bombay-ish’ precedent with distinct incorporation of consciously designed alterations.

23 Jan 2020
Office @ 63, Navi Mumbai
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

photo Courtesy Vinesh Gandhi
Office in Navi Mumbai

21 Jan 2020
The Orient Restaurants reflecting Feng Shui & Taoism
Architects: Salient

image courtesy of architects
The Orient – Chain of Restaurants in Kolkata

16 Jan 2020
Stellar, Bavlu, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Architecture: Sanjay Puri Architects

photo : Abhishek Shah Abhishek Shah
Stellar Mixed-Use Building in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

15 Jan 2020
Bavlu Weekend House, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Architecture: UJJVAL FADIA

photograph : Subhash Patil
Bavlu Weekend House in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

13 Jan 2020
Corporate Headquarters for East India Hotels in Gurugram

4 Jan 2020
Sapovilla 116 in Rajnagar, Ghaziabad House

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19 Nov 2019
Greenwood Sonata, Rajarhat, Kolkata
Architects: Maniramka & Associates

photograph : Mr. Biswanath Dasgupta
Greenwood Sonata Towers in Rajarhat, Kolkata

14 Nov 2019
62 Jorbagh Apartments Building New Delhi

7 Nov 2019
Amaltas House, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Architecture: SquareWorks LLP

photograph : Fabien Charuau
Amaltas House in Vadodara, Gujarat Real Estate

21 Oct 2019
18 Screens House
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects

photograph : Dinesh Mehta
18 Screens House in Lucknow

15 Oct 2019
The White Haven in Mumbai, Indian Home

18 Sep 2019
Queensline Sea Yah – Floating Restaurant Mumbai

SDM Architects, Mumbai, complete the project Queensline Sea Yah, images below, architectural info online soon:

photos courtesy of architects

2 Aug 2019
British Council in New Delhi Building Renewal, New Delhi
Architects: Morphogenesis

photo © Randhir Singh
British Council New Delhi Building Renewal
The British Council located in the heart of New Delhi, is a design collaboration of grandmasters, Howard Hodgkin, Charles Correa and Mahendra Raj.

19 July 2019
Verandah House in Ranchodpura, outskirts of Ahmedabad
Architects: Arpan Shah Architect, Modo Design

photo : Bharat Aggarwal
Verandah House in Ranchodpura, Ahmedabad