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Heritage buildings keep alive our roots, giving the present generations a sense of pride and hope for a grounded future…

Internationally celebrated Ar. Jim Olson shares with young architecture aspirants, some royal gems of wisdom from his vast repertoire of experience and insight... “Inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people’s lives, and architecture can connect us with the miracle of nature and the magic of art.” This is an inherent belief that guides Ar. Jim Olson, right through his everyday routine to his musings and structures.

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.

Spaces that inspire rather than soothe” is the operating mantra as corporate India gears up to compete on the global platform feels Ar. Krupa Zubin.  Mumbai-based architectural and interior design practice, ZZ Architects’ Ar. Krupa Zubin has always believed that ‘change is constant in design’; a belief that is now finding increasing resonance in the fast changing interiors of corporate India.

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.

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.

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.

The Cube is a design marvel with the lightness and versatility of an exhibition stand and the design complexity of a building; adapting to its various locales with minimal physical adjustments, whilst the original exterior and interior flavour of the structure is still intact...

Mumbai based architect Saket Sethi chisels out a metaphor for the Aditya Birla company, creating for them, their first world class R&D campus to spearhead a new generation of products and research… For a young architect to win his first large project (22 acre plot) - Aditya Birla Science and Technology Center (ABSTC) - that would not only reflect stalwart corporate ideology but also herald the new icon of its vicinity, is indeed a laudable task.

If architecture is music in stone can its “limbs” dance? Architecture only remains still in pic­tures. In real life its natural state is one of tran­sition. Both man and light move within it.