Furniture

Featured here are two innovative furniture designs: A Push/Pull furniture series which brings alive the simple design of pushcart into designer furniture; and the Paper Table which introduces us to a different characteristic of the common material – paper. Push/Pull furniture series for Cornell University Cornell University’s College of Architecture, …

Pauze Café is the brain child of two Chembur residents who wanted to change the nightlife experience in the area. Located in Vasanth Vihar Commercial Complex in Chembur, Pauze Café was originally a run-down country bar which hardly had any space for the youth to hang out. But the owners …

The 2600 sqft Consisting of two levels – a lower level that functions as a display gallery and an upper level that serves as a studio, and a trial floor for brides-to-be. Spring boarding off the store’s basic themes, the designers added in subtle cultural and traditional leitmotifs of organic …

The building is LEED platinum rated with innovative technologies. It uses a large proportion of re-used material and an extremely high percentage of easily renewable materials. The Volvo-Eicher Headquarters of the newly formed joint venture at Gurgaon, Haryana by Romi Khosla Design Studios (RKDS) is designed to be a state-of-the-art …

Over a century old Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires was restored and opened in 2010. The final result was extremely successful, as the original excellent acoustic conditions were maintained, largely due to the strict requirements demanded in the selection of new materials and the measurements made. The internationally renowned conductor …

Architecture today is not just about engaging the visual sense but is also factoring in sense of touch and sound to make the buildings more holistic and in harmony with occupants well-being. While the science of architectural or building acoustics is well understood, using that science to create desired acoustical …

With the growing use of social media platforms and mobile technology, consumers have created a profitable business model out of what has traditionally been a community activity – renting goods and services to one another. Coined the “rental” or “sharing” economy, it is presenting an opportunity for companies to re-engineer …

Time and money posed the usual constraints in this reconstruction and retrofitting job where services had to be  re-laid and the place transformed. Archohm took up these constraints and converted them into design solutions. Principal Architect, Sourabh Gupta elaborates. The brief given by the client Amith Bajla of Taurian Iron …

Glass is truly a versatile material for the creative architect. Its transparent, ethereal nature allows for extraordinary creations in the world of architecture. One of the latest trends in modernist architecture is the goal of dissolving the external boundaries and connecting residents to nature through the use of glass in …

Mexican design firm Anagrama added wooden grid shell structure to the small Biblioteca Conarte library, which is located inside a heritage building in the Mexican city that resulted in a dramatic effect. Roberto Treviño, partner and architectural director at Anagrama explains. Conarte is the council for culture and art in …