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Army barracks transform into a plush open-plan home, where warm natural materials and colours find a corresponding analogy in cuboid solid-surface forms and glass surfaces. Check it out here...

Design Plus Associates embraces an open-plan layout in its industrial-themed office, interspersed with dramatic elements... Check it out here...

Veering away from the old, introverted, conventional office space, the open-plan horizontal architecture aims at transforming work habits and work place culture to co-relate with its new interactive environment. Check out this office in Istanbul by Mimari Studio and leave us your views…

The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners. Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they're offering no apologies. "We got to have a little Old West up here in Detroit. That's what it's gonna take," Detroit resident Julia Brown told The Daily. The last time Brown, 73, called the Detroit police, they didn't show up until the next day. So she applied for a permit to carry a handgun and says she's prepared to use it against the young thugs who have taken over her neighborhood, burglarizing entire blocks, opening fire at will and terrorizing the elderly with impunity. "I don't intend to be one of their victims," said Brown, who has lived in Detroit since the late 1950s. "I'm planning on taking one out."

Colombo and Serboli Architecture designs a stunning micro apartment in #Barcelona that showcases an open-plan day area, clean-lines, loads of light, a large kitchen unit, spacious bathroom and a double bedroom. Read on to know more here…

Cubism-Architects-Interiors design this home in Tamil Nadu using introverted planning and contemporary touches to bring the outdoors inside, while referencing the region's traditional Chettiar mansion. Read here and leave us your views.

Paying close attention to urban context, built heritage and strategic planning, Studio Microclimat orchestrates this three-level home in Montreal effecting a wholesome relationship between personal and shared spaces. Check it out here…

tHE gRID Architects use colour and natural light as the mainstay of the Rangoli School headquarters' design, playing on simplicity and studied restraint to chisel an ambience of openness.

Abstraction in form; colour neutrality and fluid lines of curvature define workspaces designed by Delhi-based Kapil Aggarwal of KA Designs. IAnD profiles two of his recent projects. Check them out here...

What is it about the black-and-white colour palette that at once attracts and holds fast to one's sensibilities? Check out Ar. Igor Sirotov's latest monochrome offering and leave us your views...

Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Vietnam restore the charm of tropical neighbourhoods in the highly urbanized heart of Ho Chi Minh City through their one-of-a-kind project 'House for Trees'...

Turning a basement into an office, Anagram Architects unlock the versatile potential of the location. Check it out here and leave us your views...

Ar. Rajeev Sathe designs a transparent office in Mumbai, steering the design to balance the innate values of the company with the cultural ethos it wishes to inculcate in its employees. Check it out here…

Vadodara-based Chitte Architects design their new studio space with a dynamic contemporary twist to inspiration from cave dwellings. Check it out here