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Vaulted roofs and laterite walls form “unapologetically modern” home in India

June 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India, completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. Located in Kadirur, the home is designed by Lijo Reny Architects to be modern yet regional, with a layout and material palette that respond to Kerala’s tropical climate. It is organised

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Studio Lotus wraps stone lattices around museum-cum-jewellery store in Jaipur

June 9, 2024 Tirthika Shah 0

New Delhi practice Studio Lotus has used stone lattices and frescoes depicting regional architecture to embellish the Museum of Meenakari Heritage and Sunita Shekhawat jewellery store in India. Designed as the flagship store for Sunita Shekhawat’s eponymous jewellery brand in Jaipur, the building contains a museum focused on the craft of Meenakari on its ground

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Kiron Cheerla Architecture crowns home in India with lantern-like roof

May 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. Pott House occupies half of a garden plot characterised by loose black cotton soil, leading Kiron Cheerla Architecture to design a lightweight gridded structure with pile foundations. It

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Nowhere uses brick dust to plaster refurbished house in Hyderabad

May 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Indian architecture studio Nowhere has renovated a house in Hyderabad called Mayalogili, coating it with a rough red-brown plaster made with brick and marble dust produced during the project. Tasked with renewing the “old, opaque, heavy, worn down building” in a suburban neighbourhood, Nowhere looked to reestablish the connection between its interior and the surrounding

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Peach-coloured walls enliven Goan holiday homes by Jugal Mistri Architects

May 6, 2024 Katie Last 0

Peach-toned walls and arched openings define Baia Villas, a set of six holiday homes in Goa that Mumbai studio Jugal Mistri Architects has designed to evoke local vernacular. Located in Mandrem, a small town in the north of the state, the homes are intended to mirror the character of the local area, including its colourful architecture

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House of Greens by 4site Architects offers “a garden experience in every space”

April 24, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Planted balconies surround open living spaces at this house in Bangalore, designed by Indian studio 4site Architects for a nature-loving family. Named House of Greens, the four-bedroom home is informed by Bangalore’s history of green spaces and parks, which have earned it the moniker of the “garden city” of India. “As a tribute to Bangalore,

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Sona Reddy Studio draws on vernacular architecture for restaurant in Hyderabad

April 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Traditional materials and building techniques “celebrate the essence” of south Indian architecture at Telugu Medium, a restaurant in Hyderabad by local practice Sona Reddy Studio. Telugu Medium is located in the Jubilee Hills neighbourhood and housed in a vaulted structure of exposed brick and concrete, designed to suit the area’s arid climate and reference its

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Wallmakers wraps Indian home with perforated walls made with discarded toys

April 5, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Wallmakers has repurposed approximately 6,200 discarded toys to construct the walls of Toy Storey, a circular home in Kerala, India. The aptly named residence by Wallmakers uses toys discarded in the area, which are unsuitable for recycling, as structural components and decoration within the external walls. “The main concept of Toy Storey revolves

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Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards 2024 judge Suchi Reddy

April 4, 2024 Harry Cruttenden 0

Reddymade founder Suchi Reddy has joined Dezeen Awards 2024 as a judge. Here she selects five projects that best reflect her studio’s work. Originally from Chennai, a city in eastern India, Reddy founded her New York-based practice Reddymade based on “a design ethos informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to the

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Six social architecture projects highlighted at Re:Arc symposium in Colombia

April 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A mobile pavilion made of bamboo and a board game dedicated to education around the urban planning process were among the projects highlighted from a design and architecture symposium held in Bogotá. Helmed by Copenhagen philanthropic organisation Re:Arc Institute, the symposium gathered several global design and architecture studios to present projects aligned with the “Andean

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