India

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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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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Domed oculus connects floors of concrete-framed cultural centre in India

October 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Bangalore International Centre by Hundredhands

Architecture studio Hundredhands inserted a funnel-shaped window between the floors of the concrete and brick Bangalore International Centre in India. A cavernous auditorium lined with angled, perforated wooden panels sits at the heart of the cultural centre in the Domlur township of the city of Bangalore. Occupying a narrow site alongside a park in a

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Portal 92 designs Village Cafe to evoke feeling of an Indian village

September 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Village Cafe in Moradabad, India, by Portal92

A frame of monolithic concrete portals supports a bar and cafe, designed by Portal 92, which overlooks a raised terrace of terracotta-coloured seating in Moradabad, India. Called The Village Cafe, the spaces are split across two levels, providing locals with both indoor and outdoor areas to eat arranged around a winding, maze-like route. Squeezing a

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Cleft House in India is split in two by full-height atrium

September 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Cleft House in New Delhi by Anagram Architects

A “breached monolith” hides a giant light-filled atrium at the heart of this Indian house, which Anagram Architects has completed on a busy street in New Delhi. Named Cleft House, the four-storey dwelling is designed by Anagram Architects for three generations of the same family that wanted a spacious, light-filled home on a dense site

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Granite boxes form clifftop house overlooking a lake in India

August 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio Collective Project. Called Lakehouse, the house in southern India has two distinct sides to its granite and wood facade. A plain facade with few windows faces the road, but on the lake-facing

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Children’s scribbles inform terracotta school by Samira Rathod Design Associates

August 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

School of Dancing Arches by Samira Rathod Design Associates

Samira Rathod Design Associates have completed a terracotta school building in Gujarat, India with lopsided vaulted roofs that take their shape from a child’s doodles. Called the School of Dancing Arches, the buildings sit surrounded by tobacco fields near the town of Bhadran in the Indian state of Gujarat. The school was conceived as a

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The Lucknow Project – A Modern Mansion In Disguise

August 7, 2019 HD Staff 0

Four buildings were purchased in Lucknow city to create one whole plot for a single new luxury home. The build site is situated along a busy arterial road, and neighboured on three sides by a tightly packed development of private homes. Therefore, a large home would have seemed out of place, or perhaps even brash. […]

India approves Mumbai-Pune hyperloop in bid to build world’s first system

August 7, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Mumbai-Pune hyperloop by Virgin Hyperloop One

The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra has approved Virgin Hyperloop One’s plans to develop a high-speed line between Mumbai and Pune, which could become the world’s first hyperloop. Maharashtra’s government has announced that a consortium of Virgin Hyperloop One and global ports owner DP World would be the preferred operator to build “the first hyperloop transportation

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