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How important is the understanding of materiality to surface design? Check out the designed wall surfaces at the Wax Revolution salon by Kirath Ghundoo and leave us your views…

India Art n Design (dot)com in conversation with Carlos Arnaiz Architects on their people-centric, culturally sensitive design of sacred spaces. Check out the ideologies that have led to the amazing architecture of contemporary churches like 100-Walls Church and La Salle Church among others…

Ganna Design chisels an upbeat interior for a home in Taiwan using a linear wall as the focal element. Check it out here

Ball-Nogues Studio designs two public art installations - Air Garden and Stud Wall - that are as simple in their message as they are complex in their compositions. Check them out here…

There is a wealth of meaning and strong postulates in the study of the ancient Indian practices. Greg Shand Architects use just one -the step wells - to contextually design the Indian Heritage Centre in Singapore. Check it out and leave us your views...

One of the most fascinating things to come out of the current We Are 99%/Occupy Wall Street protests is the We Are 99% Tumblr.  At the site, people hold up signs that explain their current circumstances, and it tells the story of a whole range of Americans struggling in the Lesser Depression.  It is highly recommended. DATA The site features pictures of individuals holding their signs, and occasionally the tumblr reproduces the text of the signs themselves underneath the image as html text.  Sometimes the text under the image is blank, sometimes it is a different message, but often it is the sign itself. In order to get a slightly better empirical handle on this important tumblr, I created a script designed to read all of the pages and parse out the html text on the site.  It doesn't read the images (can anyone in the audience automate calls to an OCR?), just the html text.  After collecting all the text on all the pages, the code then goes through it to try to find interesting points. It's a fun exercise, pointing out things I wouldn't have seen otherwise.  For instance, I found this adorable little rascal, pictured below, mucking up the algorithm, as the first version of the code assumed all the ages would have two digits.  I found that he, and the sign his mom made for him as a confessional to her son, hit me a ton harder than any of the more direct signs of despair in this economy:

As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding -- indeed, an integral part of it.

LUKSTUDIO's folding arcade, the U Concept Gallery is a simplistic and engaging space of white walls and arched openings, tangled with a wooden volume that together compose a memorable spatial experience. Take a look as it unfolds here…

Can spirituality, architecture and sophisticated technology converge on the same canvas? AURA by Moment Factory, an immersive light, sound and video projection mapping experience within the intricately ornate walls of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, is an exemplar of this confluence.

Changing paradigms in corporate culture have led to progressive workplace interiors with extra care for employee wellbeing. Checkout the recent interactive and sustainable office designed by @i29-interior-architects and leave us your views…

Architects Simeen and Riyaz Quraishi of Moriq Interiors craft a timeless home in Hyderabad, playing on the seamlessness of the interior-exterior equation and drawing from the traditional courtyard typology. Check it out here…

Get ready to be captivated by Orproject's latest interiors - a wave-like partition system for Amit Aggarwal flagship store in Delhi, where glistening forms toy with elegance, mystery, and distortion.