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Working hand-in-glove with Mother Nature, LSDA design the non-intrusive landscaping across 3 acres of the beauteous resort, 'Aloha on the Ganges'. Check it out and leave us your views…

A hotline to nature, this home by Kendle Design Collaborative encourages our connect to the natural world through its seamless spaces, relaxing ambience and bright, airy indoors.

The Tent is a small spa designed by a21studio and perched above a hot spring and mineral resort hill in Vietnam.

In what may feel like a flashback to the porn wars of the '60s, a new study investigates the link between a country's relative gender equality and the degree of female "empowerment" in the X-rated entertainment it consumes. Researchers at the University of Hawaii focused on three countries in particular: Norway, the United States and Japan, which are respectively ranked 1st, 15th and (yikes) 54th on the United Nations' Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). To simplify their analysis, their library of smut was limited to explicit photographs of women "from mainstream pornographic magazines and Internet websites, as well as from the portfolios of the most popular porn stars from each nation." Then they set out to evaluate each image on both a disempowerment and an empowerment scale, using respective measures like whether the woman is "bound and dominated" by "leashes, collars, gags, or handcuffs" or "whether she has a natural looking body." Their hypothesis was that societies with greater gender equity will consume pornography that has more representations of "empowered women" and less of "disempowered women." It turned out the former was true, but, contradictory as it may sound, the latter was not. "While Norwegian pornography offers a wider variety of body types -- conforming less to a societal ideal that is disempowering to the average woman -- there are still many images that do not promote a healthy respect for women," the researchers explain. In other words, Norwegian porn showed more signs of female empowerment, but X-rated images in all three countries equally depicted women in demeaning positions and scenarios. This, the researchers surmise, "suggests that empowerment and disempowerment within pornography are potentially different constructs." So, gender equality is accompanied by sexual interest in a broader range of beauty types but not a decrease in porn's infantilization of females, use of dominating fetish gear on women or any of the other characteristics th

Ar. Rajesh Patel designs a climatically responsive and low-maintenance getaway home perfectly attuned to nature. Check it out and leave us your views...

Celebrating the intrinsic beauty of materials and opening up the home to nature, this house in Mexico is built along renowned architect R. Legoretta's principles of luxury. Check it out and leave us your views…

Designed by Atrey and Associates, a luxurious family residence in New Delhi ingeniously brings natural elements indoors with the presence of terraced gardens, water bodies and live trees - quite literally, a breath of fresh-air. Read on to know more…

Design Forum International designs and builds two residential buildings in Delhi - on the premise of merging nature as an integral part of urbane living. Check out how natural ventilation and greenery can make a difference even to life in the urban forest. https://goo.gl/42NAQJ

Designed by the eminent Studio Yamini, this breezy Vadodara penthouse uses abundant natural light and a muted, earthy material palette to create a gorgeously minimal and understated ambience set against warm, inviting hues. http://bit.ly/StudioYamini-IAnD

Harmonizing occupant-nature relationships, this residence by SAOTA echoes the sentience of the landscape through an undercurrent of earthy materials and seamless spaces. Check it out here…

Ar. Arpan Shah of Modo Designs, crafts a sensitised architectural vocabulary that responds to the nature around it; simultaneously culling out equally potent interior spaces that hold their own. Check out this home in Ahmedabad and tell us what you think…

tHE gRID Architects use nature and natural elements to effect an inside-outside dialogue between the built form and the homeowners establishing a well balanced mix of contemporary lifestyle and conventional rootedness. Check out this bungalow in Nagpur and leave us your views

Visually stimulating scenarios give a fillip to the place as well as the onlooker. Check out innovative surface designer, Giles Miller's latest finish that simulates nature...

Working with natural materials need not mean a compromise with contemporary settings. Check out this upbeat office and give us your views...

"Social scientists, in turn, are beginning to reexamine human history from an empathic lens and, in the process, discovering previously hidden strands of the human narrative which suggests that human evolution is measured not only by the expansion of power over nature, but also by the intensification and extension of empathy to more diverse others across broader temporal and spatial domains. The growing scientific evidence that we are a fundamentally empathic species has profound and far-reaching consequences for society, and may well determine our fate as a species. What is required now is nothing less than a leap to global empathic consciousness and in less than a generation if we are to resurrect the global economy and revitalize the biosphere."

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Need a home? Have limited resources? Here's Vietnam's architectural practice a21studio's solution to a warm and enjoyable home in the lap of nature…

@teamLab designs a multi-sensorial space, exemplifying the ties between nature and man. Check it out and leave us your views here....

Prioritizing nature over built form, hillside resort DuSaiResortSpa by VITTI.sthapati follows a hybrid typology of traditional tea estate architecture and standardised concrete construction.