Along tranquil backwaters, among the shades of coconut trees, A peaceful retreat in God’s own country! Spread along the Vembanad lake backwaters, Kumarakom Lake resort is an ongoing eco-retreat on…
The future of architecture – One hundred structures! Why not just make it 200 or 1,000? The reality is, Kushner could have gone higher. Today’s architecture is more than ever…
Highlighting the beauty of the Kensington gardens and its connection to the gallery, Daniel Libeskind’s flashy Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (created in 2001), called Eighteen Turns, was created from pure metallic…
Library Spaces – After a long book reading session, we find ourselves out of the mundane hurry by accomplishing a new sense of engagement around the plot. A quest for…
One of the first things that come to mind with the emergence of new architectural projects, be it a house, a commercial building, or even a public space, is undeniably…
There is a general saying that biomimicry is the idea of using actual nature in design and also that biomimicry is just the idea of using the natural design of…
Architecture has come a long way in proving itself to be more than just a medium of increasing the artistic and aesthetic value of a building. In the last few…
“As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for an unknown future.”-Norman Foster. Yet, we humans have a propensity to be concerned and overthink…
Japanese architecture is often thought of to be simple and minimal. However, Japanese architecture can be the opposite. Influenced by architectural legends like Le Corbusier, and, in the earlier years,…
The cities have evolved, the built forms have evolved, the time has evolved, and so has humankind. The evolution of small towns to cities, and that of cities to metropolitans…
Louvres, together with HVAC systems, increase efficiency in natural ventilation to create quality indoor environments. They are not complex systems. They are fixed, can be opened, sliding, or operable wing…
In the motion picture of the universe featuring nature and architecture as lead roles, we contrived the term Biomimicry, where Bio stands for nature and mimicry is to mimic or…