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“Cool” Indian Architect profiled in UK Guardian

One of India’s true green architects Manit Rastogi of MD Morphogenesis has just been profiled in the London Guardian newspaper. Rastogi’s work – which includes the hull shaped headquarters for Ernst & Young in Gurgaon – has been recognized for being “cool” in more ways than one…
In a sizzling property market, architect Manit Rastogi [...]

Hope for all Creative Indians

In case you ever begin to feel that we creative types could never make it in a really big way or have a real impact on the world, there is comfort in the knowledge that India’s most pioneering and successful entrepreneur Ratan Tata trained as an Architect at Cornell before turning to revolutionize his family’s [...]

Chandigarh Loses it Architectural Treasures

While most of the residents of Chandigarh are critical at worst or ambivalent at best about their “modernist” architecture, the rest of the world has slowly been stealing its unknown treasures and making a killing at international auction houses like Christies.
Furniture designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret – both were responsible [...]