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A true synthesis of contemporary sustainable architecture meets the eye in an energy-efficient design that is inviting, user friendly, thermally comfortable and aesthetically stimulating. Adopting a ‘building within a building’ concept as a response to the extreme hot semi-arid climate of Dharmapuri in rural Tamilnadu, architects Rajesh Renganathan and Iype Chacko of Flying Elephant Studio, Bangalore have designed a high quality outpatient, primary healthcare facility that intends to serve a group of villages set in the neighbouring agricultural lands.

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.

E-Toilet christened “Delight” is India’s technological answer to public sanitation ensuring cleanliness, sustainability and efficient maintenance. Scarcity of toilets has not been the crippling issue in our country; it is the lack of maintenance of existing facilities that is the key problem tarnishing the public sanitation system and making it unfit for use.