Symbolic Unions

By Vinita Wagh

Renders: Courtesy Karim Rashid

Read Time: 1 min 30 secs

Spreading global love (inset) Designer Karim Rashid; photography credits: Lupe de la Vallina

One world, one love. A celebration of humanity. Karim Rashid’s architectural proposal for the Church of Globalove suggests exactly that.

Shopping or sporting arena!

By Avinash Yadav

Photography: Enrico Galvani; courtesy the architect

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Are you up for a game? If not, then you will be! Italian designer Alberto Apostoli simulates the new Converse showroom in Verona as a sporting arena…

ZHA redefines the design language of billboards

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: ©Zaha Hadid Architects 

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courtesy of JCDecaux 

Zaha Hadid Design integrates digital media and contemporary design to provide a new platform for brand messaging via a digital sculptural billboard…

Between the folds: art, architecture and community

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Courtesy LUKSTUDIO

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LUKSTUDIO delivers an arresting spatial experience through their U Concept Gallery amidst the energetic, socio-cultural West Bund neighbourhood in Shanghai...

The window to the world!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Lee Namsun; courtesy Daniel Valle Architects

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Whether child or adult, Daniel Valle Architects believe in nurturing the mindset of an individual by shaping his perception; and for each, they have a magical window…

Home beautiful!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Maciek Linowski; courtesy v2com

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Resting on a rolling field, Ar. Trevor McIvor designs this modern rural country home outside Toronto taking inspiration from the stone walls that are used to separate farmer’s fields…

A medley of light and colour

By Vinita Wagh

Photography: Courtesy mimari studio

Read Time: 2 mins

ISPAK Headquarters, Istanbul (inset) Principal architects of mimari studio: Onder KUL and Ayca AKKAYA KUL

mimaristudio’s animated design and perky interior lends personality to the 4500 sq. m. headquarters of Turkish packaging company, ISPAK Ambalaj in Istanbul, and leaves a colourful mark…