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Dining at the Chor Bizzare chain of restaurants is a first-hand experience at pleasuring your senses – both visual and gustatory. ‘Bizarre’ - that’s what we call something that is unusual or mystifying; and appropriate it is, in the case of ‘Chor Bizarre’ - chain of restaurants spread across India with an outlet in London. Certain playfulness in the ambiance of the restaurant brings to life the literal Indian chor bazaar or ‘flea market’, from where the owners have been inspired.

Ar. Jim Olson shares his labour of love – his personal cabin in Longbranch, Washington that has seen multiple phases of design and construction; and Jim is currently designing the next phase… It began as a 14-foot square bunk house built in 1959 located on Puget Sound and nestled amidst the towering fir trees of an ancient forest in Longbranch, Washington. It has morphed through subsequent remodels - in 1981, 1997 and 2003 into a modest weekend house.

Modern corporate canteens require new interpretations of design. Ar. Biswas & Kumar Associates articulates this fact via an exigent kitchen facility in Mumbai… Corporate culture has seen a sea-change in recent times. Added to the much-clichéd “comfort-induced ambience is directly proportional to level of productivity”, is an inherent humaneness, where the employer-employee divide is greatly bridged via a commonplace understanding of stress, health and recreation related issues that are again, unequivocally in proportion with workplace ethics and enterprise.

Who says that chic is synonymous with glamour? Who says that a modern lifestyle cannot co-exist with the earthy scent of our roots? Who says that reuse and recycle is mundane? Dwar Eco Design is a design and build firm from Bengaluru helmed by architect Renu Mistry, who in her inimitable style ushers in the natural with the fabricated. 

Being an architect with a natural affinity for art and nature, I have generally always followed my instinctual responses to a space and its surroundings. I find great inspiration from nature and art. I see the landscape, architecture, interiors, and art as one integrated design statement.

Reinstating the role of design as an influential tool – in the look, feel and mood of a space, F.S.N.D. Architects brandish it to carve a stylish home with a view... It becomes even more challenging for a designer when he is put on a pedestal and is expected to deliver the ‘most wonderfully unique’ home that is going to make the client immeasurably house proud. Working on this ‘simple’ yet ‘demanding’ brief by the client, Form Space n Design Architects instil the “Wow” factor into 3500 sq ft. of penthouse space in a Mumbai suburb.