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Photographs: Courtesy Olson Kundig Architects Ar. Jim Olson's residential dwelling in a Californian hillside exudes his archetypal communiqué with site and surrounding, climate and culture... "Peacefulness and harmony are radical in today's world because they have become so rare. I want to bring harmony and love of nature back as an everyday experience."

By Pari Syal Photography: Courtesy Eram Scientific E-Toilet christened "Delight" is India's technological answer to public sanitation ensuring cleanliness, sustainability and efficient maintenance. Scarcity of toilets has not been the crippling issue in our country; it is the lack of maintenance of existing facilities that is the key problem tarnishing the public sanitation system and making it unfit for use.

Architecture in China can so often be polarising. In fact, the entire industry seems to have that affect on the world. There are those who applaud the Chinese for their extensive and rapid construction work, which includes the world's fastest apartment construction, the creation of entire cities in just five years and of course the developments in Shenzhen, one of the world's fastest growing cities. And then there are others who critique the country for having a 'fake' and 'blood soaked' GDP due to high levels of what some have labeled 'dangerous and unnecessary' industry work. Well, the design debate has been sparked yet again with the unveiling of China's latest industry venture.

Photography: Courtesy Saket Sethi Mumbai based architect Saket Sethi chisels out a metaphor for the Aditya Birla company, creating for them, their first world class R&D campus to spearhead a new generation of products and research...

If architecture is music in stone can its "limbs" dance? Architecture only remains still in pic­tures. In real life its natural state is one of tran­sition. Both man and light move within it. Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its imper­manent, mutable hand.

Latest technologies in plan create it possible to go for 2D and 3D imaging to supply a effective idea of any building and construction project even before the actual work starts. This system packs numerous profits for both the customer & the builder.

Form follows function at the new Zaanstad-Zuid sports centre by UArchitects. Read here and leave us your views…

Is it becoming more and more difficult for us to remain rooted to basics, as we're progressing, as a society? Is cutting down on frills, a near impossibility? Share your views with us.

"Nature has found a way to perfect inherently fragile materials by employing standard engineering principles from the nano to the macro scale,"

about future houses concepts from a passionate

some typical examples of next possible/sketched houses and future designs

some 42 mobile "houses", in the direct way of living everywhere or just for holidays ?

mobility ? just for holidays or to live every where ? some 42 designs to make a choice and think about what could be living free from geograpy ?

Does colour repurpose the perception of form? Or redefine it? Read Ar. Amit Khanna's musings on the Barbican and share with us your valuable views…

Birmingham's new Street Station gives back to the city via its contextual, iconic form. Check it out and leave us your views…

Hitech BIM Services stands as the leaders in 3D design visualization and 3D architectural modeling service company from India. For more check the full details of this project.

Sergey Makhno Architects conceptualise a villa that frames different vistas from different sides of the built form and an interior, where there are no straight angles, maximum spatial freedom, and where the ethereal airiness of the rooms leads to differential geometry that intrigues and surprises at the same time. Check out this concept here…

Often we hear conservationists talk about restoring and conserving the historic fabric of a country. Here is a fine example of reinterpretation of the old, without any compromises to the new...

Can an asymmetrical brick arch be perpetrated? IAnD and Ar. Samira Rathod invite your views in an exclusive peek into her drawing board contemplations...

Does the new generation actually have a deep respect for old structures? Read here about a young family fit-out in the lap of nature - a perfect balance of old and new; and do leave us your comments...

Traditional elements of construction create a sense of timelessness that can be a plus point even today. Read about this Brazilian residence and leave us your views...

23 Marina, the exclusive waterfront address overlooking the azure blue waters of the man-made Marina Waterfront in Dubai, was until August 2012, considered the world's tallest residential tower at 392m... Click the link to read more »