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Project • By INI Design Studio • Shopping Centres
Unity Mall
Reframing Retail as Cultural Infrastructure:
Unity Mall is conceived as an architectural response to a national question:Can retail infrastructure become an instrument of cultural integration, ecological sensitivity, and economic empowerment?
Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, is the primary gateway to the state. The site, located within the emerging New Shillong Township, is part of a rapidly developing administrative and institutional zone. Transcending conventional definitions, Unity Mall is conceived not as a sealed container of commerce, but a civic landscape where craft, culture, tourism, training, and community converge. It is an infrastructural framework designed to strengthen the cultural and economic fabric of the Northeas... More
Project • By INI Design Studio • Offices
Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) Office Campus
Surat Municipal Corporation High Rise Office Campus: Redefining Urban Governance:
Surat city is one of the fastest-growing cities globally. With its burgeoning textile and diamond industries, it is considered the economic capital of Gujarat state. The present Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) headquarters is located in a very dense urban area in the old city, with other departmental offices of SMC scattered throughout the city.
INI Design Studio
The Surat Municipal Corporation is developing a new administrative head office building aimed at consolidating its various departments functioning from different premises spread across the city into a single, cohesive entity. This initiative seeks to provide citizens with a more accessible an... More
Project • By elua® • Secondary Schools
Ligne claire
elua® reimagines all the exterior circulation of the project. But beyond a technical solution, the studio conceived the proposal as a new, elegant, and graphic appearance that reinvents the campus.
Saint-Jean Secondary School, located in the center of Tonneins, no longer meets current accessibility standards (PMR). elua® rethought all exterior circulation to comply with regulations and ensure flawless functionality. Beyond this technical response, the studio saw the project as an opportunity to create a new dynamic for the school.
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With the Ligne Claire concept, the studio developed a new architectural language that permeates the entire school. Precise functional interventions take form of a technical metal assembly... More
Project • By INI Design Studio • Museums
Astronomy and Space Science Gallery
Architecture here becomes a cosmic instrument.
Conceived as a spatial embodiment of the solar system, the Astronomy and Space Science Gallery transforms abstract astronomical phenomena into an immersive, navigable experience. A luminous central void acts as the sun, anchoring a constellation of orbiting galleries that choreograph the visitor’s journey from the familiar to the infinite. At its core, a spherical planetarium appears to levitate above an amphitheatre, collapsing structure, spectacle, and learning into a single architectural moment—where science is not merely observed, but physically inhabited.
Vinay Panjwani, India
Vinay Panjwani, India
Vinay Panjwani, India
As India’s largest facility dedicat... More
Project • By Hopkins Architects • Universities
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities forms part of the University of Oxford’s long-term redevelopment of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, a ten-acre former hospital site to the north of Oxford’s city centre. Since 2009, the site has been part of an extensive masterplan that consolidates academic activity, introduces shared research and social spaces, and establishes new public routes and amenities. Designed by British architecture practice Hopkins Architects, the Schwarzman Centre establishes a new academic and cultural presence within the evolving Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. Opening to staff and students in September 2025, the building is certified as England’s largest Passivhaus scheme.
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Project • By Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios • Offices
Heart Of The City Sheffield
The Heart of the City is the centrepiece of Sheffield’s central redevelopment. Imagined by Sheffield City Council with strategic development partner Queensberry, it is where Sheffield’s heart truly beats.
The masterplan, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, brings together three interwoven elements: Elshaw House – a flagship office building; The Cambridge Street Collective – a social destination for gathering; and Leah’s Yard – studios housed within historic metalworkers' workshops. Each has its own distinct style – and a unique story to tell.
These sustainable new buildings respond thoughtfully to their historical context. Modern structures reference the city’s industrial past, while... More
Project • By INI Design Studio • Masterplans
Atal Sarovar at Rajkot Smart City, India
The Evolution of Atal Sarovar - A Model for Water-Sensitive Urban Futures
In the contemporary discourse on urban development, the integration of sustainable practices has emerged as a defining priority — especially in the revitalization of urban water bodies.
Vinay Panjwani, India
The principles of Water-Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) encourage cities to embed natural hydrological systems within their fabric, fostering ecological resilience, enhancing public spaces, and restoring a community’s intrinsic relationship with water.
Vinay Panjwani, India
Atal Sarovar, set within the Smart City precinct of Rajkot, Gujarat, embodies this transformative ethos. By harmoniously blending ecological imperatives with urban vitali... More
Project • By B-too • Apartments
High Gardens
A building with green character.
Green character
This building is characterized by its green nature, visible on all levels of the structure. The green character is present on both the roofs and internal spaces within the building.
Furthermore, the building adjusts its height based on the surrounding environment.
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Diverse functions
Co-living and coworking are the key concepts for this building.
The structure explores the balance between homeliness and work, resulting in various meeting spaces within the building for use by both residents and visitors.
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Green (private) seating areas
There are numerous meeting spaces within the building, varying in their degree of openness—ranging... More
Project • By INI Design Studio • Cultural Centres
Aquatic Gallery at Science City, Ahmedabad
Project introduction:
In this emerging environment of knowledge-driven economic growth, it is imperative to inculcate a scientific temper in the community. The Gujarat Council of Science City, established by the Government of Gujarat, has developed the Aquatic Gallery to realize this vision. This 5th generation facility, part of the sprawling 200 acres Ahmedabad Science city, is India’s largest and first planned public inland aquarium, catering to the vision of edutainment. Attracting more than 1 million people annually, the Gallery is designed to bridge the gap between formal science education and the community at large.
Vinay Panjwani, India
Concept note:
The design of the Aquatic Gallery is inspired by the intricate a... More
Project • By Atelier ARBO • Urban Green Spaces
Beachfront Public park at Juhu Beach in Mumbai
Birla Park is located on the city's edge, close to Juhu beach in Mumbai. The site has contrasting context, with dense urban land on one side and the Arabian Sea on the other. The park is managed by Juhu Citizen’s Welfare Group, a 20-year-old trust. After 20 years, the park needed a design intervention, which was handled by the Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Airport. This Women’s Voluntary Service Organization is the largest in the world and this chapter includes 121 members working towards social causes. As a part of their yearly endeavor, this public open space was commissioned in 2021.
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This park is dedicated to caring for people of all ages. Unfortunately, ov... More
Project • By Atelier Archmixing • Parks/Gardens
Pocket Plaza, Yongjia Road
A Small Plaza Enclosed with Galleries
Yongjia Road is located in a historical downtown district in Shanghai, with many old residential blocks scattered in its neighborhood. This road is of pleasant scale and luxurious greenery, crowded with small retails. One can sense a strong living atmosphere here. The Pocket Plaza in lane 309 sits in the middle of Yongjia Road. Taking the opportunity of old quarter renovation, Xuhui District Government decided to dismantle two rows of shabby residences with fire hazards and transform the site into a public urban space. Based on observation, we believe that an open plaza with appropriate scale would be most necessary and suitable for this neighborhood.
WU Qingshan
After demolishing those old... More
Project • By OVERCODE architecture urbanisme • Community Centres
Rosa Parks Community Center
Etampes Town Hall wants to build a new community center for the Croix de Vernailles neighborhood, a modern urban area built in the 1960’s on top of a hill up-north the city center.
David Foessel
The existing facilities are dispersed all over three different buildings in the neighborhood making it very difficult to create a cohesive social project. Moreover, in recent years, the neighborhood has seen a dramatic increase in population making the existing spaces too small.
David Foessel
The Rosa Parks Community Center project can be seen as a dispositive to empower adults, families and children in need. It provides the community a multiplicity of recreational activities and educational programs for the minorities that have lo... More
Project • By Banker Wire • Zoos
El Paso Zoo Cat Adoption Center
At the El Paso Zoo’s Cat Adoption Center, MNK Architects was scoped with creating a fun, colorful, and family-friendly environment where the potential adoptees and cats could have one-on-one encounters. In the renovation of the Cat Adoption Center (previously known as The Asia Exhibit), MNK relied heavily on Banker Wire’s SJD-2 wire mesh pattern to create a key architectural installation that was both functional and decorative, helping realize the overall design scheme and purpose of the Center.Asian motifs underscore the architecture and design of the Cat Adoption Center—a structure that was originally built in the early 1990s. Inspired by the building’s original design, MNK Architects’ renovation built on thi... More
Project • By Mathews + Associates Architects • Bridges
Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria
OVERALL VIEWThe Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria consists of a public art gallery and Mapungubwe museum linked to an open museum square which includes a restaurant and outdoor exhibition space located in a publicly accessible portion of the University’s South Campus. The gallery extends over Lynnwood road with a bridge gallery which includes a pedestrian concourse, stitching together the University’s Hatfield Campus and South Campus and touching down on a new University art square positioned above a new student gallery.
BRIDGE GALLERY STITCHING TWO CAMPUSESThe Javett Art Centre at UP provides a public showcase for our national treasures elevating art firmly into the public domain while celebrating and ext... More
Project • By Tomecek Studio Architecture • Pavilions
Sunset Pavilion
Standing atop a hill overlooking the park entry, focused on the panorama of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains beyond, the Sunset Pavilion marks the intersection of multiple paths along a regional trail system. In concert with 8 additional pavilions throughout the park, the Sunset structure speaks to the simplicity of construction and the honesty of natural materials.
The dramatic steel structure cantilevers from grade, sheltering visitors from the harsh Colorado sun. Acting as a lens, the pavilion’s details are designed to emphasize the phenomenal qualities of the sun’s path throughout the day. A carefully diagrammed set of perforations along the overhead plane tracks the sun’s movement during the autumnal and vernal e... More