By TeamIAnD
Photography: Courtesy www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/
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The biggest award event for
architecture is just around the corner and this year, select Indian projects make
it to the final list!
Projects from India stand shoulder-to-shoulder
with names like Zaha Hadid, Fosters + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
and BIG in the final list of this year’s WAF 2016. With each one’s eye on the prize,
projects from distinguished firms like Sanjay Puri Architects, EL+D
Architecture + Interior Design, MQA (Mandviwala Qutub and Associates) have competed
with more than 340 architectural projects from around the world.
Meet the Indian finalists
below:
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| House on the Elephant Hills, Tamilnadu |
Category:
Future
Projects: House
Firm:
EL+D
Architecture + Interior Design
Project: House on the Elephant
Hills,Tamil Nadu, India
Status: Ongoing
Key
features of project: Harmony with nature
USP of the
designer: To encourage dialogue and build relationships through design.
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| Mandir, Kanpur |
Category:
Future
Projects: Civic
Firm:
Mandviwala Qutub and Associates
Project: Mandir, Kanpur, India
Status: Future
Key features of project: Climate
responsive, Cultural identity, Detailing in the form, modern yet rooted in
Indian culture.
USP of the
designer: Unique
modern design approach, Site centric, Climate responsive.
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| Rangoli House, Bangalore |
Category:
Future
Projects: House
Firm:
Mangera
Yvars Architects
Project:
Rangoli
House, Bangalore, India
Status: On going
Key
features of project: Design incorporating Vastu
principles.
USP of the
designer: An overwhelming
interest in urbanity propels visionary design that looks beyond the built form to broadly encompass adjunct
issues.
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| Akshaya36, Chennai |
Category:
Future
Projects: Office
Firm:
Sanjay
Puri Architects
Project:
Akshaya
36, Chennai, India
Status: Future
Key
features of project: Climatic; sustainable; unusual
office-typology with landscaped terraces.
USP of the designer: With
subtlety as a ingrained idiosyncratic, Sanjay Puri Architects are renowned for
contextual nuances, three-dimensionality, sustainability and unique identity as
their watchwords.
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| Iskcon Temple, Gandhinagar |
Category:
Future
Projects: Civic
Firm:
Sanjay
Puri Architects
Project:
Iskcon
Temple, Gandhinagar, India
Status: Future
Key
features of project: Climatically sensitive; traditional
elements of design; dematerialized planes for a perceived lightness in
structure
USP of the designer: With
subtlety as a ingrained idiosyncratic, Sanjay Puri Architects are renowned for contextual nuances,
three-dimensionality, sustainability and unique identity as their watchwords.
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| Haveli Dharampura, Delhi |
Category:
New
and Old – Completed Buildings
Firm:
Spaces Architects@ka
Project:
Haveli Dharampura, Delhi, India
Status: Completed Aug 2015
Key features
of project: conservation;
adaptive re-use; contemporary aura with traditional
pertinence.
USP of the designer: Not following any particular ‘ism’, the architects
believe in chiselling ‘live-wire’ spaces –modern, identifiable, sensual
and dynamic!
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Baradari, City Palace, Jaipur |
Category:
Completed Buildings: Hotel & Leisure
Firm:
Studio
Lotus
Project: Baradari, City Palace, Jaipur, India
Status: Completed Jan 2016
Key features
of project: conservation;
adaptive re-use with underlying Indo-Sarcenic influences of Jaipur’s architectural and craft
history.
USP of the designer: Inspired by the ordinary, the studio has a
layered approach that corroborates user-space equation to arrive at bespoke
solutions
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| Aarohan, Gurgaon |
Category:
Future
Projects: Residential
Firm:
WOW
Architects
Project:
Aarohan,
Gurgaon, India
Status: Future
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