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What is preferred for a theme-based design experience? A contextual reinterpretation or a replicative exercise? Check out these two new European themed restaurants in Mumbai and leave us your views...

There are themes and there are themes! Check out this lifestyle store designed on the thematic of a magazine and share your views with us... https://goo.gl/U20fth

Inspired by the royal city of Jodhpur, the Baner outlet of thali restaurant chain, Panchvati Gaurav symbolises the main theme of the brand - Padharo Mhare Des! Read on to know how Sankraman Design Studio has used furniture and accessories to accentuate the theme...

What is the shelf-life of a novel idea? Does one have to constantly push the envelope to sustain interest? Check out this theme-based hotel in Italy and leave us your views…

Philtre, French for love potion, drives the design of this brewery and bistro in Gurgaon. Designed by Creative Designer Architects [CDA], the dual level space is a careful amalgamation of classical and contemporary elements that summons timelessness hand-in-glove with the theme. Read on to find out more...

Designed by Hong Kong based @onepluspartnership with an articulate, overriding theme throughout, this Shanghai cinema house is inspired by the rails used for tracking shots in the filming process. Check it out and leave us your comments here…

The dark, infinite expanse of outer space and its quiet, unexplored beauty is nothing short of remarkable. This restaurant #Interstellar in #Mexico City designed by Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados + Concepto Taller de Arquitectura + Pin Studio echoes this sentiment through its galactic theme…

Concrete design studio use post modernism and pastiche elements to recreate Asian street-food themed restaurant in Amsterdam. Check it out and tell us what you think of it…

One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). "A critical look at salaried professionals," says the cover, "and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives." Its theme is postmodern America, but also applies to Britain, where the corporate state has bred a new class of Americanized manager to run the private and public sectors: the banks, the main parties, corporations, important committees, the BBC.

I'm genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online. The book focuses on what I began realizing several years ago is the crucial theme tying together most of the topics I write about: America's two-tiered justice system - specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world's largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be - the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities - into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality. This is how I described that development in the book:

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

How often do we come across form-based architectural themes in our lives and what difference do they usher in, in terms of experience? Contemplate on the issue, while going through this feature on one such project and leave us your views.

Studio Osmosis brings the vibrant vibes of Portuguese cheer to Navi Mumbai with a theme restaurant aptly called Barcelos! Check it out here…

Multi-disciplinary design firm, @cluster-one-creative-solutions designs a stand-out abode spanning 3250 sq. ft. in Chandrapur, where a tasteful play of design, patterns, colours and materials that stand out in a neutral envelope, following a theme of contrasts. Read on to know more….

Sumessh Menon is known for reinterpreting oriental themes in a new way through design. POH, located in the upbeat hub of Kamala Mills Compound is a classic case of that style. Read on to know more about it here.

Working on innovation in the built environment, Turin-based design and innovation office, @carlo-ratti-associati creates the old theme of the four seasons into the future, thanks to the adoption of new sustainable technologies. Check out the story here and leave us your views