Articles

Ritual in Apartment Design: The Interstice

The way people interact with a building and move within its spaces, finding shelter and comfort, is essential to architecture’s concerns. The considered accommodation of our day-to-day rituals within residential settings– arriving home, the reception of guests, the family meal Read more ...

Buildings 2021 & Beyond

MGS Architecture celebrates its 16th Anniversary along with architects, interior designers, and the real estate fraternity. In this issue, we invite them to share their thoughts on what the built environment should be, what should change, and what should be taken Read more ...

Ar. Brinda Somaya Somaya & Kalappa Consultants

An architect’s role and responsibility go beyond buildings. We have to think about many issues when we design and build. We have to protect the built environment as well as the unbuilt environment, whether it is open spaces or the natural landscape Read more ...

Ar. Prem Nath Prem Nath And Associates

With climate change and global warming depleting the resources of our planet, practicing sustainable architecture is the need of the hour. Sustainable construction is not just about the creation of a building that has a low environmental impact, rather, it is a new Read more ...

Prof. Charanjit Shah Creative Group

Building materials and construction techniques keep on changing with new technologies, innovations, and greater understanding of their application potential. Steel and concrete were initially being used in isolation but in the current times we are using both these versatile Read more ...

Ar. Ponni M. Concessao Oscar & Ponni Architects

As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as an important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. With consistent efforts to integrate technology in all aspects of public life in addition to focusing on a sustainable ecosystem, Smart Cities Read more ...

Ar. Reza Kabul ARK Reza Kabul Architects

The past year has highlighted the necessity for social and communal interaction. We have, as humans, always been social and inter-dependent by nature. And during the months spent in the confines of our homes, we have realised the importance of basic liberties Read more ...

Ar. Nirmal Mangal M Moser Associates

Architects and designers are the agents and leaders of change. The design industry, working with the construction industry, should collaborate more proactively to provide solutions for the environmental crisis, respond effectively to the call for climate action Read more ...

Ar. Dinesh Verma ACE Group Architects

The design of environments, especially for learning bestows an extra responsibility on architects to design spaces that encourage exchange of knowledge in varied scales. The sharing of knowledge between various facets of design and construction includes spaces Read more ...

Ar. Babu Cherian BCA Architecture

With the construction industry being a key contributor of about 36% of the worldwide energy usage and 40% of the carbon dioxide emissions, it is high time we buckle up and embrace the benefits of converting to sustainability. With benefits ranging from environmental Read more ...

Ar. Dikshu C. Kukreja CP Kukreja Architects

While the entire world has gotten busy with innovating techniques, materials, elements, in present day India, the idea of a sustainable design appears to be ambiguous. We can find a trend of looking at the West for inspiration catching up with the architects Read more ...

Ar. Rahul Kadri IMK Architects

In contemporary times, there is an urgent need to broaden our understanding of green or sustainable buildings beyond their traditional mandate of environmental response or energy efficiency to how they interact with their inhabitants. As several studies of biophilia Read more ...

Sangeet Sharma SD Sharma & Associates

The socially responsible designs were always a part of large-scale designs and architecture for town planning and public health etc, and were primarily intended for the larger engagement of the society and the social issues. This trend of taking forward the socially Read more ...

Ar. Sanjay Goel Designex Architects

Of the hundred upcoming smart cities, many have been completed but most are either in progress or will be starting. Projects that cover the entire city will be more useful for everyone as compared to projects that are being executed under the area-based development (ABD) Read more ...

Manish Kumat Manish Kumat Design Cell

Selection of glass should be done strategically, keeping in mind the directions and the play of sunlight. Double glazed units cut down heat transmittance in the built blocks. Glass can be designed to reduce heat gain and increase light transmittance Read more ...