Bangalore

The Abacus House / studioXS

23:00 - 10 February, 2019

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Architects

studioXS
Location

Bangalore, India
Category

Houses
Lead Architects

Shivani Kumar, Sucheth Palat , Tanika Krishnan, Meghana P
Area

3330.0 ft2
Project Year

2017
Photographs

Anand Jaju

RL Residence / SDeG

20:00 - 7 February, 2019

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Architects

SDeG
Location

Bangalore, India
Category

Houses
Design Lead

Sujit Nair
Project Team

Sujit Nair, Shantosh C,Aayush Bhaskar, Bidisha Kumar,Saurabh, Sukirti,Suchetna
Area

6210.0 ft2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

Shamanth Patil

Carlo Ratti Designs Prefab Housing for Rural India

13:00 - 1 January, 2019

Architecture practice Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a low-cost prefabricated housing system for Indian non-profit WeRise. The new "Livingboard" system was made so that homeowners can build any structure they like on top of it. Made as a pilot project to encourage rural housing development, the system is being tested in a village outside Bangalore. As a portable "motherboard", the design provides homeowners prefabricated and flat-packed elements like waste management and water treatment systems.

Another Sky / Designhaaus Solutions

19:00 - 31 December, 2018

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Architects

Designhaaus Solutions
Location

Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Category

Apartment interiors
Principal

Gourav Das, Rajeev Kr Sharma.
Design Team

Debmalya Sinha, Avakash Kumar, Mrityunjay Pandey, Sanjay .
Area

420000.0 ft2
Project Year

2017
Photographs

Lazaro Advertising

Titan Integrity Campus / Mindspace

00:00 - 24 December, 2018

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Architects

Mindspace
Location

Electronics City, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Category

Offices
Lead Architects

Sanjay Mohe, Swetha A, Joseph K T, Er. Mahesh.S
Area

390000.0 ft2
Project Year

2017
Photographs

Purnesh Dev Nikhanj

Sunrise Garden Restaurant / M9 Design Studio

21:00 - 21 October, 2018

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Architects

M9 Design Studio
Location

Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Category

Restaurant
Lead Architects

Nischal Abhaykumar and Jesal Pathak
Team

Stuti M Mohapatra, Pavan MG
Area

730.0 m2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

Shamanth Patil Photography

Parkside Retirement Homes / Mindspace

00:00 - 12 September, 2018

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Architects

Mindspace
Location

NH 207, Boodigere Road, Brigade Orchards Spinal Road, Devanahalli, Bangalore, Karnataka 562110, India
Category

Apartments
Lead Architects

Sanjay Mohe, Avinash Ankalge, Sravani Vobilisetty, Gowtham Srinath
Landscape Designers

Design Milieu
Area

3000000.0 ft2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

PHX india, Mindspace

Sattva Galleria / Sudhakar Pai Associates

20:00 - 3 August, 2018

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Architects

Sudhakar Pai Associates
Location

Byatarayanapura, Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Category

Buildings
Lead Architects

Sudhakar Pai, Sivaraja Pragada, Girish
Other participants

Er.Vinaykumar BH
Structural Engineer

M/s Design Tree
Area

27011.0 ft2
Project Year

2018
Photographs

Shamanth Patil

CnT Architects Provide Two Options for Design of Aurobindo Pharma Towers in India

08:00 - 20 November, 2016

A competition for the design of the Aurobindo Pharma towers in the center of Hyderabad, India has declared CnT Architects as the winner. The 300-meter site is located in the center of Hitech City of Hyderabad. Two options exist for the final towers: one intends to accentuate the building's verticality while the other amplifies the horizontality of the site.

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Sergei Tchoban: Bridges & Spires - Drawing Reflections on Past and Future

08:00 - 26 June, 2016

German-Russian architect, artist, and collector Sergei Tchoban’s new exhibition Bridges & Spires: Reflections on Past and Future presents over 60 large format drawings and watercolors of existing and imaginary structures and ruins, as well as futuristic fantasies of context and gravity defying urban pasts and futures. The exhibition gathers Tchoban’s diverse oeuvre of drawings – from his travels throughout Europe, America, and Asia to urban fantasies that inhabit imaginary underwater canals in St. Petersburg and Venice, and the skies over Berlin and New York. The drawings on view, which span from 1983 to 2016, many exhibited for the first time, present the artist’s continuous pursuit, which is independent of his professional practice.

DESIGNURU

18:02 - 1 April, 2016

‘DESIGNURU’ organized by the Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID), Bangalore, will be a combined initiative of citizens of the city in making the public a part of an art and design based initiative. The festival aims to create a dialogue
among the residents of the city through the lens of community and public interest
based works on Design, Art and Architecture.

The Top 10 Most Expensive (and Cheapest) Cities to Build In Are...

14:00 - 6 January, 2016

When comparing 44 major cities, Arcadis' 2016 International Construction Costs Index has found New York to be the world's most expensive city to build in. London came in as a close second, reporting cost of building prices (on average) 20 percent higher than Paris. In contrast, Taipei was labeled as the "cheapest" city for construction. According to the study, "strong currencies and significant resource constraints" were a result in higher prices. Read on for the complete lists of most expensive, and least expensive, cities for construction.

The Economic Times Architecture & Design Summit 2015

07:00 - 1 September, 2015

As we head boldly towards a more confident tomorrow, architects, designers and builders will play a crucial role in this progression and there is a strong need for these stakeholders to come together and lay out the vision on moving this industry to a level where India is able to retain its heritage architecture in structures to be built and thereby create an identity of its own on the global platform.

The Economic Times has always taken great pride in India’s accomplishments and have continuously aligned themselves with the cause of national development. If India has to join the league of developed nations, one essential aspect of this future progression will be the interior design, urban design and urban planning of global cities within India. This conference brings together Indian and global industry barons & visionaries on one platform as they look to share their knowledge & experience of creating structures that align the needs of a progressive nation with designs that define an era.

From Prisons to Parks: How the US Can Capitalize On Its Declining Prison Populations

10:30 - 24 April, 2015

Prisons are often seen as problematic for their local communities. After centuries of correctional facilities discouraging economic growth and occupying valuable real estate as a necessary component of towns and cities, many of these institutions have been relocated away from city centers and their abandoned vestiges are left as unpleasant reminders of their former use. In fact, the majority of prisons built in the United States since 1980 have been placed in non-metropolitan areas and once served as a substantial economic development strategy in depressed rural communities. [1] However, a new pressure is about to emerge on the US prison systems: beginning in 2010, America's prison population declined for the first time in decades, suggesting that in the near future repurposing these structures will become a particularly relevant endeavor for both community development and economic sustainability. These abandoned shells offer architects valuable opportunities to reimagine programmatic functions and transform an otherwise problematic location into an integral neighborhood space.

Why repurpose prisons rather than starting fresh? The answer to this question lies in the inherent architectural features of the prison typology, namely the fact that these structures are built to last. People also often forget that prison buildings are not limited to low-rise secure housing units - in fact, prisons feature an array of spaces that have great potential for reuse including buildings for light industrial activity, training or office buildings, low-security housing, and large outdoor spaces. These elements offer a wide variety of real estate for new programmatic uses, and cities around the world have begun to discover their potential. What could the US learn from these examples, at home and overseas?

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