I usually check out the close circuit cameras at site a few times a day. Since I cant visit Nandi Hills everyday, this gives me a visual...

One of my aspirations for the design of our home, is to blend traditional motifs and themes from Karnataka, while still building a...

Having finalised our construction contractor, I was keen to get the project started. While the first wave of the pandemic was behind us,...

Dragonfly on garden trail When designing or laying the stones for garden pathways, I've commonly seen linear or geometric patterns. I'm...

Despite living in Bangalore for nearly 20 years, I learned about the unique South Indian tradition of memorial stones (colloquially...

Check with any experienced photographer, they will most likely have a folder of reference images - each frame has something that caught...

In 1961, incidentally, the year of my birth; Louis Kahn built the structures for the Indian Classroom, IIM Ahmedabad Institute of...

Aren't you wondering what this post is about ? I first came across these terms in a book by Vanessa Gardner Nagel - she uses them to...

The Lion King, arguably the most well known animated film in the world, centres around a pride of lions ruling over the animal kingdom...

Some brands become synonymous with a product category - like Google for search or Xerox for photocopying... The parallel in the...

That Wanaka Tree Have you heard about the Wanaka Tree ? It is a solitary crooked willow tree at the south end of Lake Wanaka in New...

Many of the national parks in Rajasthan have remnants of forts and hunting lodges inside them. One always dreams of being able to spot a...

I was heading out to a customer meeting in Milan on a cool February morning, when my phone pinged. As I switched it to vibrate mode, I...

Every design starts with a blank sheet. The architect visits the site, talks to the client to get a sense of what kind of home they want,...

Even if you are not a Star Trek fan like me, you've almost certainly come across the most famous introductory voiceover in the history of...

WTC Memorial competition design model & winner Did you know that the architect for the World Trade Center Site Memorial was chosen via a...

Once I had acquired the land for my home, I had to pick a competent, professional architect - initially I did not know where to begin. I...

Most of the 90s, I worked in Europe, initially in Stockholm and subsequently in Budapest. We enjoyed this period, taking the cross...

Most houses are built in a specific style or based on a theme. Now that I had a site, I needed to progress my 'home in the hills' from an...

In his first visit to our site on 12th January, our architect spoke about a historic house that the plot brought to mind - the Farnsworth...