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Makino's Roadside Station / Wakatake Town Planning Research Institute + STUDIO YY + WORKSTATION

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Located in Sakawa, Kochi Prefecture — the birthplace of Tomitaro Makino, the father of Japanese botany — this roadside station (Michi-no-Eki) was selected through an open proposal competition. To honor the legacy of Dr. Makino, whose name the facility bears, we set aside the given conditions and started from zero, driven by a single ambition: to draw out the full beauty of the natural landscape that Makino himself cherished in Sakawa. The town's mayor, who served on the jury, later remarked that our proposal had appeared in his dreams — a testament to how deeply the design was rooted in the spirit of Sakawa.

Śhālā Twam Community Hub / Bhoomija Creations

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Śhālā Twam, meaning "a space for you," emerged from a simple yet urgent question: within the rapidly densifying urban condition of Kerala, can even a modest private plot become a shared cultural and ecological resource for the neighbourhood?

Anganwadi Childhood Care Facility / Fahed+Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:00:00 +0000

In the heart of Kochi, at a chaotic street corner locally known as Cemetery Mukku, a gentle architectural gesture rises above the noise—neither monumental nor monumentalized, but quietly radical. This Anganwadi by Fahed + Architects reimagines public architecture for early childhood care in India.

HAVEN Residence / VSP Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

‘HAVEN’ is situated near Vytila junction in Cochin – one of the city’s busiest and most densely populated regions. The irregular shape of the plot, which was narrow in the front and wider towards the rear, along with the surrounding tight-knit context, posed a challenge in designing spaces that were open, with adequate natural ventilation and light, while simultaneously ensuring privacy.

Alarine Earth Home / Zarine Jamshedji Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Alarine Earth Home embodies the coming together of the professional and personal lives of architect Zarine Jamshedji and Construction veteran Cornelis Alan Beuke. Jamshedji is the founder and principal architect of Zarine Jamshedji Architects, and Beuke has had many years of experience in construction. Architect’s Note: “We looked for a site that resonated with our desire of how and where we wanted to live. A vision of how we wanted to build emerged instantaneously from it. The desire to have a home that ‘blends in’ the true sense of the word into the land and landscape, not be intrusive, or block the expansive paddy field for our neighbors in the rear.

The Container, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2023 / Samira Rathod Design Atelier

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

In spite of colossal demolition and the debris it creates, building activity continues to remain indispensable. Architectural thinking must evolve around sustainability, recycling materials, and resources.

Koshish House / Koshish

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

A story of 14,858 tiles. Located in the heart of Kochi, the story of Koshish begins as one traverses the narrow mud road that leads to its vibrant, red entrance. A proponent of sustainable architecture and erected over fewer than six months, the project repurposes old Mangalore tiles, steel, and windows sourced from a dilapidated textile factory, 8 kilometers away. The remaining tiles were procured from four different locations, all of which now make up the project's pathway, walls, and roof.

Kutta Estate House / EDOM Architecture

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:00:00 +0000

This cozy Estate House is designed for Mr.Sendhil Narayan (Faith Estate) in his coffee plantation at a small village ‘Kutta’ in Karnataka. This weekend retreat has a breathtaking view of the Western Ghats from the first floor.

St George Orthodox Church / Wallmakers

Hana Abdel — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Built on the foundation of a historic monument, this church resurrects the original church which is the first church of the Christians in Kerala, built in 1615 AD and was left in shambles after years of neglect and encroachment. Designed using stabilized earth blocks to form Nubian arches, the alter and the aisles of the church are supported by flying buttresses that were built without shuttering. Being a religious building for a small community, the church would have demanded substantial negotiation from the architect and a trusting client to realize this dream. . The exploratory spirit combined with pressing demands is from where the design is born; which is further evolved through a series of dialogues between the site, the masons, the architect and the clients.

Lessons from UN-Habitat: How to Design Spaces For and With the People?

Christele Harrouk — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 07:35:00 +0000

The Un-Habitat or the United Nations agency for human settlements and sustainable urban development, whose primary focus is to deal with the challenges of rapid urbanization, has been developing innovative approaches in the urban design field, centered on the active participation of the community. ArchDaily has teamed up with UN-Habitat to bring you weekly news, article, and interviews that highlight this work, with content straight from the source, developed by our editors.

KOODAARAM Kochi-Muziris Pavilion / Anagram Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:00:00 +0000

About the project
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) is the largest contemporary art festival in Asia, held once every two years, in abandoned factories and warehouses repurposed as galleries and cafes, in Fort Kochi-Mattancherry, in Kerala, South India. Every biennale, a pavilion is constructed to host performance and cinematic art at Cabral Yard, a one acre campus full of large canopied trees in the heart of Fort Kochi. In KMB 2018, the curator Anita Dube commissioned Anagram Architects to design the Biennale Pavilion. In turn, Anagram Architects collaborated with B L Manjunath for structural design and Studio Wood for furniture design.

Identiti Advertising Renovation / Meister Varma Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:01:00 +0000

Identiti is an advertising and branding agency run by a father-sons trio who wished to consolidate their home and office in different parts of the city into a spacious live-work unit. By the time we were approached, a building had been purchased for this purpose on a relatively compact 270 sqm site. The existing structure was an archetype of a build to rent style prevalent throughout Kerala with low daylight and even lesser character. Cramped room sizes resulting from a half-baked interpretation of Vastu (traditional Indian system of architecture) made matters worse.

Ailereve / Yasui Hideo Atelier

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

When I was young, I travelled following “Le Corbusier”.