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Saket Sethi creates egg-shaped garden temple alongside rural Indian house

February 8, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
An egg-shaped temple at an Indian house

Indian architect Saket Sethi has completed the Sunoo Temple House on the outskirts of Mumbai with a rooftop garden and a private worship space that is designed to evoke a galaxy. The dwelling was designed for a couple relocating from the Netherlands, who wanted a home and place to worship surrounded by flowers and greenery.

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Abin Design Studio creates terracotta-brick community centre in Bansberia

January 19, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Community centre in Bansberia by Abin Design Studio

Architecture studio Abin Design Studio has built a small, multifunctional community centre in the city of Bansberia in the Indian state of West Bengal. Informed by terracotta temples found in West Bengal, the two-storey centre is designed to provide a variety of flexible spaces for the local community in Bansberia along with a dormitory for staff. Abin Design Studio

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Zero Energy Design Lab creates Girls’ Hostel Block with hollow concrete facade

January 12, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Girls Hostel Block by Zero Energy Design Lab

New Delhi-based design studio Zero Energy Design Lab has completed a girls’ hostel building with a perforated concrete facade and an exterior staircase in Gurugram, India. The design for the Girls’ Hostel Block, part of the St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management, took its cues from the adjacent boys’ hostel block and features the

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Edmund Sumner shares photos of Louis Kahn’s IIMA including its recently saved dormitories

January 7, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Louis Kahn's IMM dormitories in Ahmedabad

Architectural photographer Edmund Sumner has shared a set of images of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by architect Louis Kahn, which was recently saved from demolition. Sumner took the photos of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), which faced an international outcry over its plans to demolish 14 buildings on the site, over a series

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Louis Kahn dormitories in Ahmedabad saved from demolition after global protests

January 2, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
Louis Kahn dormitories in Ahmedabad

Plans to demolish part of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by architect Louis Kahn have been withdrawn following an international outcry. The management school’s board of governors yesterday announced it had abandoned plans to demolish a cluster of brick dormitories that forms part of the monumental campus. In a letter announcing the decision, the

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Carbon net-zero design for Delhi Noida International Airport revealed

December 23, 2020 India Block 0
Delhi Noida International Airport

Architecture firms Nordic Office of Architecture, Grimshaw, Haptic and consultants STUP have won the competition to design a carbon-neutral terminal for Delhi Noida International Airport in India. Delhi Noida International Airport will be built in Jewar, 25 miles south of Delhi, by developer Zurich Airport International. The winners, who promised to design “India’s greenest airport”,

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Dezeen’s top 10 Indian architecture projects of 2020

December 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Continuing our review of 2020, we look at 10 architecture projects from across India, including a modern take on a Hindu temple, a house informed by Le Corbusier and a cardboard office. Rajasthan School, Rajasthan, by Sanjay Puri Architects Sanjay Puri Architects designed a series of shaded walkways around this school in northern India to shelter pupils from the

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Edmund Sumner films black-granite Hindu temple in India

December 7, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Temple to Balaji & Varahaswamy in Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India, by Sameep Padora & Associates

Architectural photographer Edmund Sumner’s latest film uses drones to capture Sameep Padora & Associates’ recently completed Hindu temple complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. Filmed over the course of two days at the Temple of the Steps, the video is a collaboration between Sumner, the building’s architects and Kasper Bjørke, who composed the soundtrack. “I wanted to

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Abin Design Studio creates latticed concrete and glass temple in India

December 1, 2020 India Block 0
Narayantala Thakurdalan by Abin Design Studio

Narayantala Thakurdalan by Indian practice Abin Design Studio is a concrete Hindu temple with a glazed corner that opens onto the street in Bansberia. Precast concrete jalis, or lattices, are stacked to create a screen wall around part of the shrine. The column-free space allows for unobstructed access for worship, and during festivals, via a

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Ten key projects by Indian architect Anupama Kundoo

November 20, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Anupama Kundoo architecture: Town Hall Complex, 2005

Here’s a look at 10 pivotal projects by Indian architect Anupama Kundoo, whose work is currently on show in a retrospective at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Kundoo’s architecture centres around traditional craft traditions and construction techniques. Her buildings features handmade materials assembled by local craftsmen, which she favours over mass-produced production methods. Many of

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