Upon becoming a sovereign country, free from British Rule, the people of India found themselves faced with questions they had never needed to answer before. Coming from different cultures and origins, the citizens began to wonder what post-independence India would stand for. The nation-builders now had the choice to carve out their own future, along with the responsibility to reclaim its identity - but what was India's identity? Was it the temples and huts of the indigenous folk, the lofty palaces of the Mughal era, or the debris of British rule? There began a search for a contemporary Indian sensibility that would carry the collective histories of citizens towards a future of hope.
Materials to Build India's Identity
Scaffold House / Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects GRCA
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Architects: Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects GRCA
- Area: 4600 m²
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: Shiva Kumar, Keshav, Parthiban, Achu P Enterprises, Shivkumar, +1
House of Concrete Experiments / Samira Rathod Design Atelier
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Architects: Samira Rathod Design Atelier
- Area: 5000 ft²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Great Estaren, Mahendra Doshi, The Big Piano, Vitrum, baro
Hotel at Bodhgaya / SJK Architects
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Architects: SJK Architects
- Area: 76000 ft²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Asian Paints, Forbo, Italino, Rak ceramics, Square Foot, +1
KoAi Store / Portal 92
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Architects: Portal 92
- Area: 18 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Soil, Spectrum
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Professionals: Ashok Infra Enterprises
Earth and Glass House / Studio Lotus
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Architects: Studio Lotus
- Area: 20000 ft²
- Year: 2019
Tin Tin Restaurant / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 1500 ft²
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio, White Lighting Solutions
The Brick Bond Showroom / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 550 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Professionals: White Lighting Solutions
V House / moad
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Architects: moad
- Area: 1100 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Duravit, Saint-Gobain, Brio, Foscarini, Hafele, +3
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Professionals: Lighting Space, Auroville Botanincal Garderns, Balu Assocaites, Manjunath consultants
The Fluted Emerald Elgin Cafe / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 1500 ft²
- Year: 2021
Comfort & Sustainability in Architecture: Trends 2021
Just before the global lockdowns began in response to the spread of the widely discussed COVID-19, we met with Saint Gobain experts at their new headquarters in Paris to discuss an extensive investigation conducted in 2019, with the aim of understanding the transformations that architecture and construction have experienced in recent years. After an interesting exchange of ideas, we chose the most relevant topics to be analyzed in depth by our team of editors, resulting in a series of articles that combined the trends identified with the unexpected events that occurred during 2020, connecting them directly to architectural design.
Now, entering an uncertain but promising 2021, we took the time to stop and reread these articles carefully. How many of these trends are still valid and how much have they evolved? What new trends are likely to develop in the coming years?
The Black Concrete Restaurant and Bar / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 3600 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: IndiHaus Lighting, White Lighting Solutions
"Social With Distancing" Restaurant and Bar / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 4400 ft²
- Year: 2020
House with 49 Trees / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 10000 ft²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: Sezra, White Lighting Solutions
The TerraMater Store / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
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Architects: RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio
- Area: 1300 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Saint-Gobain, Asian Paints, Dorma India, Hettich, Merino, +1
Inside Out House / Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects GRCA
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Architects: Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects GRCA
- Area: 5890 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Plumbtech Engineers, Interiors Espania, Parthiban, Achu P Enterprises