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Shilpa Architects' Global Design Studio's LEED Platinum rating for a multi tenant office space in Chennai is commendable. Find out more here...

By Savitha Hira Photographs: Courtesy Olson Kundig Architects Internationally celebrated Ar. Jim Olson shares with young architecture aspirants, some royal gems of wisdom from his vast repertoire of experience and insight... "Inspiring surroundings have a positive effect on people's lives, and architecture can connect us with the miracle of nature and the magic of art."

By Flying Elephant Studio Photography: Manoj Sudhakaran; Courtesy the architects A true synthesis of contemporary sustainable architecture meets the eye in an energy-efficient design that is inviting, user friendly, thermally comfortable and aesthetically stimulating.

Photography: Courtesy Karim Noorani & Co. Modern corporate canteens require new interpretations of design. Ar. Biswas & Kumar Associates articulates this fact via an exigent kitchen facility in Mumbai... Corporate culture has seen a sea-change in recent times.

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."

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Being an architect with a natural affinity for art and nature, I have generally always followed my instinctual responses to a space and its surroundings. I find great inspiration from nature and art. I see the landscape, architecture, interiors, and art as one integrated design statement.

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.

By: Ar. Jim OlsonPhotography: Benjamin Benschneider, Michael Jensen; courtesy: Olson Kundig Architects Ar. Jim Olson shares his labour of love - his personal cabin in Longbranch, Washington that has seen multiple phases of design and construction; and Jim is currently designing the next phase...

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.

Photography: Courtesy F.S.N.D Architects Reinstating the role of design as an influential tool - in the look, feel and mood of a space, F.S.N.D. Architects brandish it to carve a stylish home with a view...

Photography: Nigel Young; Hufton & Crow; Courtesy: Foster+Partners Foster & Partners incorporate ambitious environmental strategy in a new sculptural addition to the city of London... Wrapped in a grid of highly reflective cast- aluminium brise soleil, shimmering in the bright sunshine, casting intriguing chiaroscuro effects on the street side, the Walbrook office building stands tall, distinctly individualistic, yet contextually alluding to the historical fabric of its neighbourhood .

Fort McMurray Airport (YMM), located 13km south-east of Fort McMurray, Alberta, is owned and operated by Fort McMurray Airport Authority

Moi International Airport is the second biggest airport in Kenya and is located in the city of Mombasa. Also known as Mombasa Airport, it is spread over an area of 539ha and is operated by Kenya Airports Authority. The airport handled 1.3 million passengers in 2013, becoming the second busiest airport in Kenya.

Ben Gurion International Airport, or Lydda Airport as it is sometimes referred to, is the largest international airport in Israel.

Three of the ten biggest power stations in China are hydro-based, including the gigantic Three Gorges Dam, while the other seven are coal-fired. Power-technology.com profiles the ten biggest Chinese power stations based on installed capacity. The Three Gorges power station located in Yichang in Hubei province is by far the world's biggest power generation facility.

Izmir Adnan Menderes International Airport is the fourth busiest airport in the country, serves Izmir, an important seaside metropolis of Turkey.

The global economic downturn has slowed growth at major airports in the US and Europe, paving the way for more Asian and Middle Eastern airports to break into the top ten for passenger traffic levels. Based on passenger traffic stats for the first five months of 2012, airport-technology.com presents the ten busiest airports in the world.

It's easy to forget that urban design is not a new concept. Ancient examples of carefully-planned and designed cities exist in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and are particularly well-known within classical Chinese, Roman and Greek cultures. The pioneer of urban planning, Hippodamus of Miletus, planned ancient cities of Rhodes, Miletus and the harbour-town Piraeus at Athens as early as the fifth century BC.  In England, many ninth century towns were designed on a grid plan, and by the twelfth century, urbanisation was seen as a means of stimulating economic growth and generating revenue throughout Western Europe. One of the earliest international contributions made by Australia to urban planning theory and practice sprang from the international competition held between 1911 and 1912 to design Australia's new federal capital, Canberra.