Category Archives: re:India

Modern Mix

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Sunflower, tea and expansive view.

Architects: OPOLIS

OPOLIS is a multidisciplinary, award winning design practice by a very young team of architects based in Mumbai and Pune.

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Was I talking about the view.

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Endless hours of view.

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‘House by the ridge’  is an award winning vacation retreat  by the architects in Khadakvasla, Pune

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Organic is the mantra here.

If you are looking for signature style you will find none.

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Colours and Geometry.

Ask for variety and you will find it everywhere.

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The traditional touch.

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The Zen bliss.

The basic rule here, it seems is simplicity.

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Did you notice the drawings (?) on glass cabinet doors!

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Clutter free -inviting.

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The golden mix.

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Clean Modern.

Hide and Seek

 

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A small playground at Deepalaya School, Guspethi, Haryana (India)

Architects: @ Romi Khosla Design Studio

Here basic architectural elements are turned upside down!

There is a playground in a house – a house in a play ground.

Let’s play hide and seek!

Doors and windows here take you to open space and walls are see-through and move too!

And if you need you can create your own private space as all the panels can pivot.

Romi Khosla a veteran Indian architect is an urban planner and author too.

Romi Khosla Design Studio is a Delhi based lead consultancy.

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Philosophy

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Philosophy

The concept of balance and harmony in the philosophy of zen.

Designer: Isha Katoria

Lifestyle and accessory designer Isha Katoria is a young designer to watch for. A graduate of NIFT Isha’s design has sparks which speak of oodles of talent and freshness.

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Philosophy

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Splash watch

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Wheat (Golden Harvest)

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Unconventional

Black Onyx drops and silver marijuana leaves

Check her portfolio here.

 

A Persian architecture residential tower in concrete jungle

 

 

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By: Architects-planners-designers-constructors @ Della Tecnica

(principal architect Jimmy Mistry)

The beauty and culture of ancient Iran is being recreated amidst hustle and bustle of Mumbai city.

A grand, very modern and luxurious residential tower with Persian architecture and ancient Zoroastrian faith is coming up in a very busy suburb (Dadar) of Mumbai.

(An absolute visual delight!)

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Design Ganesha – 3

 

I had no plans to post any Ganesha image. But just see to what imagination length we go to design our enduring lord Ganesha!

 Modern day mouse-ii Ganesha!!

You can see  Design ganesha ? part – I here &

                                                   part -II here.

(image courtesy bsnl broadband print advertisement)

Trees and concrete

 

A house with courtyard in interior Maharashtra

Architects: Bijoy jain and Mehul patel @ Studio Mumbai

There are varieties of native trees in the construction site so what to do.

Weave the house around the trees!!!

The trees stand so naturally in architecture practiced by Studio Mumbai that it becomes immaterial that it is inside a house or a research center with eighteen laboratories!

A simple courtyard house constructed with brick and plaster by Studio Mumbai is my favourite. Another thing I appreciate about the architects is that they think process and anonymous workers are important. So they give as much importance to skill of bricklayers, stonemasons and carpenters who have no formal education as to any celebrated architect’s work! 

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