New India architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Indian buildings from across this major South Asian country.
Discover The Hovering Gardens House, Pune, Maharashtra, by Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy in the west of this South Asian country. This unique project is located in a neighborhood of Pune that has abundant greenery. The apt use of water bodies, bridges, stone walls, and landscaped areas helps it merge seamlessly with its environs.
Lastly e-architect showcase Avendia Housing in Rajarhat, Kolkata, West Bengal, by Edifice Consultants. Rajarhat is a planned urban centre at the fringe of the city of Kolkata.
The developer’s brief called for a residential footprint of around 1.5 million sqft on 13 acres of land.
Design: Ketan Jawdekar, Studio K-7
Surrounded by rice farms, the inspiration for this home, very naturally came from the surrounding paddy fields. The entire house and its landscaping were designed following the principal of Less is More.
Design: Studio Archohm. They say there is only one life and so one must live it fully. The Katyal family epitomizes this philosophy to the core and clearly expects its design home to showcase it just as flamboyantly.
Architects: Skimore, Owings & Merrill LLP – SOM. Inspired by the form of traditional Indian pavilions, the four-story terminal stacks a grand “headhouse,” or central processing podium, on top of highly adaptable and modular concourses below.
Design: Morphogenesis Architects. The client brief was simply- to create the world’s most sustainable office building. The challenge is enormous – to consider Sustainability in its broadest sense.
Architects: SPA Design. The APathy House is for an art collector, and was designed as a place for calm and meditation. On a square plot of 30m x 30m, the house is a roughly a square of 20m x 20m that occupies the centre of the site.
There are various elements of Unbuilt Chandigarh, that were conceived by Le Corbusier but remained confined to documents, pictures and archives. The design of the Capitol Complex was the jewel in the crown wore by Corbusier’s Chandigarh.
Green Storeys Bangalore, contemporary Indian sustainable building design by The Purple Ink Studio – Bengaluru building: Eco-Cities India, Karnataka prototype
The project aims at recreating the transparencies of the Adalaj stepwell and the terraces of the mythical hanging gardens of Babylone in a contemporary manner for an office building.
New Wing for Mumbai City Museum: competition win: contemporary Indian project – design by Steven Holl Architects – architect, design, architecture images
A child’s mind is an open book to write new impressions, thoughts and ideas without the presence of preconceived notions and beliefs. What it observes, grasps and understands forms the very basis of an individual’s mindset, which becomes a part of society.
New Delhi Architects Office Interior: contemporary redevelopment in India – design by SPACES ARCHITECTS@ka – architect studio: architecture
Jaunapur Farmhouse in New Delhi: contemporary home in India: residence – design by SPACES ARCHITECTS@ka – residential building, Indian home, Jaunapur house
Brick House, Wadu, near Mumbai, India – design by iStudioArchitecture – Wadu Brick residence, India residential development: Indian residential architecture
3XN’s design team was invited for the event which unveiled the 77.000 m2 project inspired by the Indian nature and Mumbai’s mangroves. Just as clusters of mangrove stalks seemingly braid together at the base, the two towers in this mixed use development converge at the lower retail floors, rising up to provide amenity spaces on the podium; and grow into the sky as a cluster of slender trees providing some of Mumbai’s most thoughtfully laid out residential accommodation.
Design: Khosla Associates. The brief for this house was a well-articulated document that delved into the nuances of how this family of 3 wanted to live. The family, comprising an entrepreneur-industrialist, married to a bohemian writer and with a teenage daughter, wanted the house to reflect the diverse range of their lives.
The clients required privacy from staff and casual visitors. They needed a peaceful oasis from the stresses of life.
Design: The Purple Ink Studio. The structure is situated at a major city junction in a dense urban fabric. Design brief: A contemporary face-lift to an old structure so as to regenerate the landmark. The project was to be planned for quick and easy construction to enable running of all three screens for the forthcoming movie releases.
Design: SHROFFLEoN. Situated on a heavily contoured site boasting of views overlooking the ocean, the project involved primarily the refurbishment of an existing bungalow with a major emphasis on the landscaping.
The second home, housing but three bedroom suites, finds focus in the creation of multiple outdoor zones of relaxation and entertainment, each with their own character, ambiance and usage protocol.