ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1187246/from-coastal-reclamation-to-data-centers-how-indias-architecture-grows-around-water Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:30:00 +0000 Ankitha Gattupalli https://www.archdaily.com/1187246/from-coastal-reclamation-to-data-centers-how-indias-architecture-grows-around-water Architecture has treated water either as a backdrop or a problem: a view to be framed, a hazard to be drained, or a utility to be connected. In contemporary India, a more consequential relationship takes shape. Water remains a shared ecological resource, yet the land and infrastructure around it are increasingly financed and defended as economic assets. Coastlines are extended to carry traffic and lake edges become lucrative development zones. The decision to do so passes through multiple institutions with different vocabularies, thereby challenging who determines how water and its surroundings are used, and who faces the consequences.

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