At night, big cities can look almost overflowing with life: apartment windows glow above busy roads, trains carry strangers shoulder to shoulder, and cafés remain busy long after sunset. And…
A city is more than hard concrete, tall buildings, and skylines; it is the warmth, the conviviality, and the human connection that give it its true essence. Strangers meeting at…
In places such as Gurgaon, the sky opened up, and in a short time the city ended up being underwater. The heavy rainfall caused traffic on the roads, left stranded…
The Heritage School is one of the best examples of climate-responsive educational architecture in Pune, located in the lush green area of Ambi. The campus, which was designed by Madhav…
The Everyday Experience We Rarely Design For Waiting consumes more time from our lives than most people think, but it is not really regarded as an experience in architecture. Waiting…
Before a single brick is laid or a railroad track is set, the city of the future exists as a digital construct. Through dynamic maps, simulations, and predictive models, urban…
Design – Planning, Design solutions, and philosophy The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Home to roughly 550 faculty members, 8,000 students, and 1,250 support staff spread across 250 hectares of…
Walking is probably the oldest and simplest form of movement. Almost everyone, regardless of age, profession, or income, becomes a pedestrian at some point during the day. Yet in many…
For years, the idea of a home and workspace in separate settings was not the norm. Workshops, houses, studios, and small businesses all used to be in the same building.…
An endless all-nighter before a 9 AM jury, tables filled with drawings, iterations, norms’ data, reviews, and presentation materials, is often an everyday, fast-paced reality for architecture students. And yet,…
Regenerative urbanism is a planning approach that treats the city as a living ecosystem rather than a machine to be optimised. Though conventional sustainability strives to limit harm, regenerative urbanism…
We are seeing a shift in today’s era, as the built environment faces the inevitable challenge of climate change. It has become incredibly clear that without sustainable solutions to primitive…