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Studio Saransh Reimagines Corbusian Ahmedabad Inside a Contemporary High-Rise

NG Apartment

Ahmedabad-based Studio Saransh has completed NG Apartment, a residential interior project that revisits the city’s modernist legacy within the confines of a contemporary high-rise. Located in Ahmedabad, the project translates the material and spatial ethos of the Corbusian era into a lived domestic environment, moving beyond stylistic imitation toward a more experiential reconstruction. Commissioned by […]

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Arcause Spotlight 3.0 Bengaluru Explores Accessibility & Urban Life

Arcause Spotlight 3.0 Bengaluru

Arcause Spotlight 3.0 (Bengaluru Edition) convened a diverse group of architecture and design students, practitioners, researchers, and professionals for a day-long engagement centred on accessibility, inclusive design, everyday urbanism, and heritage. The event fostered interdisciplinary dialogue through a series of immersive activities across the city, encouraging participants to critically examine how urban spaces are experienced

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Jolly Bros & Co Brings Mumbai’s Irani Café Heritage to Hyderabad

Jolly Bros & Co Brings Mumbai's Irani Café Heritage to Hyderabad

Jolly Bros & Co is a project of TEVA Architects and is a 3,000 sq ft nostalgic dining space. It blending colonial-era aesthetics with local Hyderabadi identity A new café in Banjara Hills is drawing attention for its meticulous recreation of Mumbai’s iconic Irani café culture. Jolly Bros & Co, designed by Hyderabad-based TEVA Architects.

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From Villa Anantya to GOMA HQ: Nayan Shah’s Context-Driven Design

In an industry that often celebrates the loud and the monumental, Nayan Shah, founder of the Mumbai-based studio Palindrome Spaces, prefers a different frequency. Since establishing the firm in 2018, Shah has been quietly refining a design language where light, proportion, and memory take center stage, recalibrating the rhythms of daily life without ever “shouting

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Walking the Talk: Gita Balakrishnan and the Architecture of Empathy

In an era when design is often equated with visual spectacle, Gita Balakrishnan stands out for turning architecture into an instrument of empathy and social change. Trained at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and later at Carnegie Mellon University, she began her career with hands-on community work in Bangalore’s slums through AVAS,

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Steel Giants of Iceland: Turning Power Lines into Walking Monuments

The Land of Giants reimagines Iceland’s high-voltage pylons as 150-foot-tall (45-meter) human-like steel figures, turning functional infrastructure into monumental sculptures. Proposed by Choi+Shine Architects for Landsnet, Iceland’s power transmission company, the concept won recognition in a 2008 international competition.​ Project Origins Choi+Shine, led by Jin Choi and Thomas Shine, entered the 2008 Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon

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Pritzker Prize Delays 2026 Announcement Amid Epstein Files Controversy

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, often called architecture’s Nobel, has postponed its 2026 laureate announcement following revelations from Jeffrey Epstein’s documents linking foundation leader Tom Pritzker to the financier. Typically revealed in early March, the delay comes after U.S. Department of Justice files released on January 30 named Pritzker over a thousand times in Epstein’s emails.

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Arcause Spotlight at Municipalika 2026: Reimagining Cities Through Responsible Design

In a rapidly urbanising India, where cities are both the engines of growth and sites of stark inequity, Arcause Spotlight at Municipalika 2026 aims to rethink what truly makes a city safe, inclusive, and sustainable. Scheduled for February 26, 2026, the initiative is led by Gita Balakrishnan, Founder of Ethos and the Ethos Foundation, recognised for her pioneering work at the intersection

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Who Was Edwin Lutyens, Architect Whose Statue Removed From Rashtrapati Bhavan?

President Droupadi Murmu unveiled a bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari at Rashtrapati Bhavan, replacing the statue of British architect Edwin Lutyens. According to government sources, this move is part of efforts to shed colonial symbols and honor Indian leaders. The bust was placed at the Grand Open Staircase near Ashok Mandap, opposite Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. It

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5 Modernist Churches of Italy You Must Know

Between 1962 and 1965, the Second Vatican Council ushered in liturgical reforms emphasizing participation and clarity, freeing Italian architects from rigid typologies to create bold, modernist sacred spaces. Postwar Italy’s economic boom, urban sprawl, and secular shift met Vatican II’s call for renewal, birthing experimental churches that anchored new communities. Marta Minuzzo’s “Templi Moderni. Costruire

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