Designed by Somaya & Kalappa Consultants Pvt. Ltd, TCS House, Stylish new home of Tata Consultancy Services is located in Mumbai, India. The building was a load-bearing masonry structure with an internal framework of r.c.c and steel. However, it had detoriated considerably over the years and the external walls which were brick, faced with approximately 300 mm thick stone had delaminated. The slabs...
The Red Lounge designed by Sanjay Puri Architects is located in Mumbai, India. A wavy curvilinear ceiling was created to merge the disparate heights and allow the space to feel larger. Towards the end, a lounge area is created and christened “The Red Lounge”, by its shiny red floor. Large screens of varying heights created by sandwiching plastic pipe sections within sheets of glass are...
The IT Building, commercial office designed by Morphogenesis Architecture Studio is located in Gurgaon, Delhi, India. Gurgaon has seen rampant growth in the last ten years which has made it home to some of the contemporary office typologies of the day. The entire project was perceived as a monolithic gonad like wrap around a program. The gist behind the project was to blur the distances between the...
The Parag Shah’s Residence designed by Matharoo Associates, located in the industrial city of Surat, India with its recent history of plague, riots, earthquake and floods, and presently dealing with uncontrollably booming economy; the irregular site lines generate a skewed box in concrete as if to ward off all externally disturbing forces. Nature-trapping volumes along with the ‘SITE’ induced...
Residential District that located in Shing Dian, Taipei, Taiwan, was designed by Lewis & Hickey Architects. To be named, Royal Mount, the exclusive development will also incorporate a club house and a number of leisure facilities with landscaped parklands which will all be accessed through security gates. Paul Miele, Lewis & Hickey’s group chief executive, explained: “This project win...