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A contemporary home with traditional touches is cleverly designed to offer both privacy and a visual connect to nature. Read here and leave us your views...

Customizing spaces comes naturally to the team at The Orange Lane. Their latest interior intervention for the brand Sassy Spoon is in one word: Sassy! Abundant colour, old world charm and tiny details ensure that this bar & fine dine in Mumbai will stand out! Read on to know more here

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...

Working with nature is the key to architectural sustainability. Check out this inward-looking home that builds on this belief. Read here and leave us your views…

What role can the interior design of a residence play in a space-starved city grappling with rising temperatures and lack of greenery? Check out this inward-designed home that ingeniously maximises natural light and ventilation…

However much our ideas of a high life find a hold in contemporary methods of enjoyment; our traditional Indian design elements continue to rule our spaces… broadly speaking… check out this villa project and leave us your views…

Chomsky and Foucault discusses the nature of power, amongst other things.

SlutWalk is a huge reclamation and restatement about boundaries and women's bodies. Sex workers are broadcasting the message that just because the nature of the work is sex does not mean that their bodies are automatically available for anyone's public debate, or worse. At the same time, all of the women in SlutWalks represent the idea that women can dress provocatively - and men still need to understand where the boundaries are.

Steven Pinker is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, the author of several magnificent books about the human mind, and one of the most influential scientists on earth. He is also my friend, an occasional mentor, and an advisor to my nonprofit foundation, Project Reason.Steve's new book is The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Reviewing it for the New York Times Book Review, the philosopher Peter Singer called it "a supremely important book." I have no doubt that it is, and I very much look forward to reading it. In the meantime, Steve was kind enough to help produce a written interview for this blog.

Lighting experts LumiGroup create bespoke ambience for Artopex flagship, combating the almost total absence of natural light… Read here and leave us your views...

Futuristic homes needn't necessarily look as though they've descended from an alien world. They could harbour sci-fi features, despite falling within the realms of a normal 'home', set amidst nature, with pleasing aesthetics. Check out our feature on the W.I.N.D House and leave us your views.

A studied play of custom-designed artificial lighting flirts with an optimized use of natural available light in the remodelling of this courthouse. Check out the feature and leave us your views...

A cozy holiday home by Puran Kumar Architects connects with the basic pleasures that nature bestows.

Sameer Balvally and Shilpa Jain Balvally of Studio Osmosis borrow from nature to give back to it, open-to-sky spaces that resonate with a healthy extension-of-the-living-space vibe. Check out their design for a terrace and a balcony…

Reiterating that space (metaphorically too) is an important element of life and lifestyles, Axelrod Architects chisel an 80's home into a sleek modern structure carefully maintaining the nature connect…

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…

More Design Office designs a theatre space in Shanghai inspired by and based on the film noir genre, complete with dark spaces that intrigue and add drama! Check out the full story here…

Marc Fornes of the THEVERYMANY studio uses computational research and digital fabrication to designs a public art installation that is very much at home with the natural landscape of pine trees. Check out the fantastical installation here…