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Primus Office Building / Sanjay Puri Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The Primus is a nine-level, climate-responsive office building in Jaipur, India, composed of a series of capsule-shaped modules stacked vertically to create a breathable and environmentally conscious workspace. Located adjacent to Jaipur Airport, the project was subject to a strict height restriction of 30 metres. To meet the client's requirements, the building accommodates eight offices on each floor, with unit sizes ranging from 60 sqm to 125 sqm. The structural design provides complete flexibility, allowing individual offices to be combined into larger workspaces if needed.

Magnus Office / Sanjay Puri Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Situated on an extremely busy arterial road in Jaipur, India, within a neighborhood of old commercial developments, this office building marks the first new development in the area. Designed to respond to both context and climate, the project establishes a contemporary identity while respecting the architectural heritage of the region.

Museum of Meenakari Heritage & Flagship Store / Studio Lotus

Hana Abdel — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Studio Lotus proposes a unique archetype for retail design with the new brand experience center for luxury jewelry label Sunita Shekhawat. The art of Meenakari or enamel work is an age-old technique renowned for its vibrant and intricate designs on metal surfaces. While enamel work originated in Persia, it has flourished in India, particularly in Rajasthan where it is passed down through the generations and deeply embedded in the region's artistic legacy. This 16^th-century art serves as the foundation for the work of well-known Indian jewelry designer, Sunita Shekhawat. Her eponymous brand lends a fresh spin to the age-old tradition with timeless yet contemporary jewelry. Studio Lotus' design for the brand's flagship store and Museum of Meenakari in Jaipur pays homage to this approach; a nod to the region's vibrant cultural heritage amidst a fast-evolving cosmopolitan landscape.

Chinar Textile Studio / Juhi Mehta Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Studio Chinar is a garment and home furnishing manufacturing unit situated on an 800 sqm piece of land amidst a plotted industrial area on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan. The client, an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India desired a functional and climatically comfortable built environment integrating a workplace along with a studio and other ancillary facilities for a team of around 100 people including 80 craftsmen (tailors and weavers) who combine to produce hand -woven and hand-crafted contemporary textile products. Hence, the project was imagined and conceptualized as a naturally lit comfortable working environment that would uplift the worker's ability to focus and be more creative. The building has been based on the idea of celebrating the artistic work of the designer by creating neutral spaces brought to life by providing internal courtyards and bringing in natural light at all levels.

Zen Spaces Residence / Sanjay Puri Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Blurring the lines between the inside & the outside, integrating with the existing landscape, screening & allowing filtered light in different ways within each space, and infusing volumes with light & shadows to transform differently at different times, Zen Spaces is a 4 level house. Situated on a corner with roads on 3 sides, Zen Spaces is a 27000 sqft home in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. On a relatively large plot with an existing house on the southern side, the clients wanted a new house since the family had grown larger. Keeping most of the existing garden as a common space for both houses, the new home is built on the extreme northern end with roads on 3 sides. All the existing trees on the site were retained, with the new house ensconced in the clear space between the trees.

World's Greatest Places Include Revitalized Riverfronts, Affordable Artistic Incubators and Superlative City-States

Christele Harrouk — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Time magazine has released the World’s Greatest Places Of 2021, selecting 100 destinations from around the globe. With revitalized riverfronts, affordable artistic incubators, and superlative city-states, the list is a tribute to the built and natural environment that found a way “to adapt, build and innovate”, amidst the challenges of the past year.

Stone House / Malik Architecture

Hana Abdel — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored. The house in Jaipur presented us with an opportunity to explore and evolve a method of building that has been prevalent in traditional buildings for centuries. We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction.

Baradari / Studio Lotus

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:00:00 +0000

The Baradari at City Palace Jaipur in Rajasthan cites an insightful example of how design brings inherent value to a place where conventions on conservation and adaptive re-use are looked at through a fresh lens.

Open Call: Learning Resource Center Design Competition

Rene Submissions — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:20:00 +0000

“Once you stop learning you start dying” -Albert Einstein

Knowledge is power, knowledge is freedom. But my simple definition of knowledge is total sum of all things you know as a person, and all things known universally. Your experiences, skills you have acquired, and information that has been captured in any accessible format that can be utilized in various ways, is knowledge. And library is a temple for those who seek knowledge.

destho 2018 aims to generate new ideas for LRC design that employs the use of green and new technologies and construction methods, and creates interesting and

White Elephants: Over-Budget, Unsuccessful, and Embarrassing Architecture Projects From Around the World

Sharon Lam — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:50:00 +0000

Not every piece of architecture can be an economic and social success. But there is one dreaded term reserved for only the mot wasteful of projects: "white elephants." The term comes from a story of the kings of Siam, now Thailand, who would reportedly gift sacred albino elephants to courtiers they didn't like. Refusing the gift from the king would have been unacceptable, but being sacred, these animals were forbidden from work, leading the courtier to financial ruin—a fact the kings knew all too well.

Housing for Mahouts and their Elephants / RMA Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A housing project for a 100 elephants and their Mahouts (caretakers), Hathigaon (or elephant village) is situated at the foothill of the Amber Palace and Fort near Jaipur. The design strategy first involved structuring the landscape that had been devastated by its use as a sand quarry by local sand suppliers, to create a series of water bodies to harvest the rain runoff, as this is the most crucial resource in the desert climate of Rajasthan. With the water resources in place, an extensive tree plantation program was carried out together with seeding the site to propagate local species - all at an extremely low cost, using local labour and craftspeople.

Pearl Academy of Fashion / Morphogenesis

Nico Saieh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur is a campus which by virtue of its design is geared towards creating an environmentally responsive passive habitat. The institute creates interactive spaces for a highly creative student body to work in multifunctional zones which blend the indoors with the outdoors seamlessly. The radical architecture of the institute emerges from a fusion of the rich traditional building knowledge bank and cutting edge contemporary architecture.