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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...

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.

What is it about a designer that urges him to reinterpret the done thing? Check out this neonate furniture and space planning design team from Delhi, India and leave us your views…

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

Beautifying the area around the Taj Mahal, Archohm Architects propose the urban redevelopment plan for the Taj Ganj. Check it out here…

From deliberate functional planning and circulation tucked into a sharp form, to carefully considered spaces and amenities, the Airoli Sports Complex by Shashi Prabhu and Associates personifies efficiency.

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…

Studio Bipolar uses dynamic graphics, an energetic colour palette and perceptive space planning to infuse youthful zest into a basement co-working space Bhive-11 in Delhi. Check it out here…

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 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."

India gets its first architectural archives library. Check out the action plan here and leave us your views…

Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer from Taiwan with huge factories in China, generates about 40 percent of the global consumer electronics revenue by creating things like iPhones and computer components on giant assembly lines staffed by humans. Until recently, you'd probably never heard of Foxconn, but a series of worker suicides made us all take a hard look at where our electronics were coming from. Foxconn has made some improvements (including nets around tall buildings), but by all accounts, the core of the problem (the work) remains "repetitive, exhausting, and alienating." Yesterday, Foxconn announced (at an employee dance party of all places) that they're planning on buying some robots to replace their human workforce. And by some robots, they mean one million robots over the next three years. So for every one robot Foxconn currently has working at their manufacturing plants, they're going to buy a hundred more.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is well into its second week of operation, and is now getting more attention from media as well as from people planning similar actions across the country. This is a promising populist mobilization with a clear message against domination by political and economic elites. Against visions of a bleak and stagnant future, the occupiers assert the optimism that a better world can be made in the streets. They have not resigned themselves to an order where the young are presented with a foreseeable future of some combination of debt, economic dependency, and being paid little to endure constant disrespect, an order that tells the old to accept broken promises and be glad to just keep putting in hours until they can't work anymore. The occupiers have not accepted that living in modern society means shutting up about how it functions. In general, the occupiers see themselves as having more to gain than to lose in creating a new political situation - something that few who run the current system will help deliver. They are not eager for violence, and have shown admirable restraint in the face of attack by police. There may be no single clear agenda, but there is a clear message: that people will have a say in their political and economic lives, regardless of what those in charge want. Occupy Wall Street is a kind of protest that Americans are not accustomed to seeing. There was no permit to protest, and it has been able to keep going on through unofficial understandings between protestors and police. It is not run by professional politicians, astroturfers, or front groups with barely-hidden agendas. Though some organizations and political figures have promoted it, Occupy Wall Street is not driven by any political party or protest organization. It is a kind of protest that shows people have power when they are determined to use it. Occupy Wall Street could be characterized as an example of a new type of mass politics, which has been seen in

A simple textile art installation succeeds in illustrating the emotional and parabolic ethos that Ar. Emmanuelle Moureaux shares with Tokyo City; so much so that she plans to take the '100 Colours' series to different cities across the world. Check it out

That 'high-rises provide vantage points, otherwise unthinkable of' is beyond debate and when such a point provides an unobstructed view as well, it's definitely a bonanza. It is this distinct advantage that Aedas, the architects of Mongkok Residence, Hong Kong plan to serve to its residents through this towering landmark. Check it out here...

Design Forum International (DFI) designs a modern architectural intervention in Kolkata: The Dakshineshwar Skywalk

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…

Studio Modijefsky narrates the history of Ottos Burger bakery-turned-restaurant through its interiors, encapsulating its ethos through accent features, materials and space planning.

SML Architects prove how a well-thought out plan can transform the mundane to modernist. Check out their newly redesigned office project in Mumbai and leave us your views