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School for squatters in India can be dismantled to evade bulldozers

January 24, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for squatter communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. ModSkool is made of cheap materials such as bamboo and local craft techniques such as charpai weaving. The concept was developed after a school for 200 children in a settlement

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PriestmanGoode to design interiors of vast Indian co-living spaces

January 24, 2020 Augusta Pownall 0

PriestmanGoode has unveiled designs for the interiors and branding of Indian co-living venture Olive, which will launch with a 15,000-bed community in Bangalore. Launched by Indian real-estate group Embassy Group, the first phase of the Olive co-living project will be a 15,000-bed development in Bangalore. This will be joined by 2,500-bed spaces in Pune and

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Studio Symbiosis proposes Aũra towers to alleviate air pollution in Delhi

January 9, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Aũra air purifying towers by Studio Symbiosis

Studio Symbiosis has designed Aũra air purifying towers for Delhi, India, to help tackle the increasingly dangerous levels of pollution in the city. Described by Studio Symbiosis as “breathing lungs of the city”, the Aũra towers have tapered, twisting forms designed to draw in polluted air and expel it in a purified form. The proposal

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Oval-shaped meeting room is centrepiece of granite office in Chandigarh

January 2, 2020 Semi Han 0

Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed Office 543 around an elliptic meeting room with granite walls, which is a private space among the glass-walled offices. Designed for construction company Khullar Builders, the office is located in the Mohali district of Indian city Chandigarh, which was planned by modernist architect Le Corbusier. The two-storey building was

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Nudes designs wooden book pavilion to encourage reading in Mumbai

December 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Bookworm pavilion by Nudes in Mumbai, India

Indian architecture studio Nudes has designed the meandering BookWorm pavilion to encourage reading among children and adults. Located in the gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum in Mumbai, the BookWorm pavilion has been built as a response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal that all youths and a substantial proportion of adults

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Jaipur’s Nila House store aims to preserve traditional Indian craft

November 13, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Handcrafted pieces from local artisans will be available to purchase in this lifestyle store in Jaipur, India, which features interiors developed by Bijoy Jain. Offering a selection of handwoven and naturally dyed products, Nila House sets out to be a “repository of knowledge” on traditional Indian craft techniques. The store – which includes an archive, workshops

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Jaipur’s Nila House store aims to preserve traditional Indian craft

November 13, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Handcrafted pieces from local artisans will be available to purchase in this lifestyle store in Jaipur, India, which features interiors developed by Bijoy Jain. Offering a selection of handwoven and naturally dyed products, Nila House sets out to be a “repository of knowledge” on traditional Indian craft techniques. The store – which includes an archive, workshops

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Jaipur’s Nila House store aims to preserve traditional Indian craft

November 13, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Handcrafted pieces from local artisans will be available to purchase in this lifestyle store in Jaipur, India, which features interiors developed by Bijoy Jain. Offering a selection of handwoven and naturally dyed products, Nila House sets out to be a “repository of knowledge” on traditional Indian craft techniques. The store – which includes an archive, workshops

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Rocky hillside used as walls and floors for Hilltop School in Hyderabad

October 24, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Hilltop School by DesignAware in Hyderabad, India

The rocky hillside surrounding an 800-year-old fortress forms several of the walls and floors of this school by DesignAware in Hyderabad, India. Situated within a dense residential neighbourhood below the 16th century Goldonda Fort, Hilltop School replaces a makeshift school in a large shed on the site, which was attended by local children for four

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Huge rise in number of schools causes “big crisis” in Indian architecture education

October 18, 2019 Marcus Fairs 0

Architecture education in India is in crisis with a shortage of teachers, overcrowded classes and widespread cheating by students, according to architects in the country. A huge expansion of architecture courses over the last few years has led to overstretched and under-qualified staff teaching classes of up to eighty students, Dezeen has been told. Students

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