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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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Four Balkrishna Doshi projects exploring Hindu philosophy in India

November 13, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Sangath Architect's Studio, Ahemdabad, India, 1980

Chicago art space Wrightwood 659 is presenting a showcase of works by Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi. Curator Khushnu Panthaki Hoof selects four projects that show how the Pritzker Prize-winner interprets Hindu philosophy in architecture. Twenty Doshi projects from 1958 to 2014 are shown through drawings and models, artworks, sketches, video and photography at the exhibition,

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Architecture Brio raises artist’s cabin on stilts in India

October 17, 2020 India Block 0
Exterior of Mumbai Artist Retreat by Architecture Brio in Alibag, India

Mumbai Artist Retreat is a steel and bamboo cabin built by Indian studio Architecture Brio in the coastal town of Alibag that’s raised on stilts to withstand rising sea levels. Built next to the sea in Mumbai Bay, the project is an attempt by Architecture Brio to reconcile the attraction of living by the sea

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Minimal interiors of Bodice store in New Delhi champions slow fashion

October 11, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Furniture in Bodice's New Delhi flagship are made from natural materials

Bodice founder Ruchika Sachdeva has designed the pared-back interiors of the womenswear brand’s store in New Delhi to counter the “more, new and now” culture of fast fashion. Bodice’s flagship is located in New Delhi’s affluent Vasant Kunj neighbourhood, occupying a building on the same site as the brand’s design studio. Sachdeva took on the task of designing

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Studio VDGA lines office in India with curving walls of honeycomb cardboard

September 29, 2020 India Block 0
Walls of of Office in Cardboard by Studio VDGA in Pune, India

Architecture practice Studio VDGA has renovated an office in Pune, India, with partition walls made from cardboard and MDF. Located in the Pimpri Chinchwad district, the four-storey office for 100 people has been given a recyclable fit-out. Called Office in Cardboard, the project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the large workspace interior

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Studio VDGA lines office in India with curving walls of honeycomb cardboard

September 29, 2020 India Block 0
Walls of of Office in Cardboard by Studio VDGA in Pune, India

Architecture practice Studio VDGA has renovated an office in Pune, India, with partition walls made from cardboard and MDF. Located in the Pimpri Chinchwad district, the four-storey office for 100 people has been given a recyclable fit-out. Called Office in Cardboard, the project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the large workspace interior

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Studio PKA turns heritage building in Mumbai into own architects’ studio

August 29, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture firm Studio PKA has transformed part of a disused 100-year-old building in Mumbai into its own contemporary office space. Called The Loft, the adaptive reuse project focused on the fourth floor of a Victorian-era warehouse in the city’s South Bombay, an art district nicknamed SoBo. The architecture studio gently “peeled away” decades worth of

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