Chandrakant Sompura, designer of Ayodhya’s Shri. Ram Mandir, to be conferred with Honorary Fellowship by Indian Institute of Architects
With no formal background in architecture, Chandrakant Sompura has designed over 200 temples across India.
Religious Buildings
With no formal background in architecture, Chandrakant Sompura has designed over 200 temples across India.
Meera Iyer, an independent researcher, on the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala Temples, that recently made to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
With an approach to connect the past with the present, Design Factory India worked at UNESCO World Heritage Site Modhera Sun Temple in Gujarat.
Tejorling: Radiance Temple by Karan Darda Architects is a Shiva temple built for daily worshipping by the locals.
The overall experience of this net-zero art installation is to demonstrate a transcendental journey of freedom, agony and joy in childhood! Globally, children are going through a crisis brought on by being pushed to mould themselves into society’s preconceived notions of education and lifestyle.
ST. George Orthodox Church in Mattancherry by Wallmakers -Built on the foundation of a historic monument, this church resurrects the original church which is the first church of the Christians in Kerala, built-in 1615 AD and was left in shambles after years of neglect and encroachment.
Shanti Sadan is a place for worship and service. The spatial planning of this facility, the materials used in construction and the simple form that defines this building are all a reflection of the austere life of the nuns of this community.
Our winning entry for the Baha’I House of Worship in Bihar Sharif, India engages with the spiritual power of space and is based on the faith’s strong sense of spiritual oneness, equality and inclusion. It is poetic for us to be building the second Baha’i temple in India because our understanding of the power of space to inspire came from the powerful architecture of the first Baha’i temple in India, the ‘Lotus Temple’ in Delhi.
Blending Mathematics, Religious Principles and Technology to create a new interpretation of an Iconic Mosque in Dubai, reinventing elements of Islamic architecture – A collaborative proposition by Design Plus Architects & rat[LAB] Studio.
The following critique for the Balaji Temple at Andhra Pradesh, an award-winning project designed by Sameep Padora and Associates, was shared by Praveen Bavadeker. Praveen Bavadekar is Principal at Third Space Studio.
The Balaji temple in Nandyal explores and abstracts the long tradition of the temple typology in India.
The architectural philosopher Andrew Benjamin wrote that every act of design was an act of repetition and that architecture is about exploring what not to repeat. This building too repeats or emulates certain tropes of the Hindu temple so that it is recognisable as a temple yet it doesn’t replicate those tropes but rather breaks them down to constituent parts to then again reconstruct it.
The brief was to design a temple for the residents of villages around Nandyal. In the dry terrain of Nandyal, the main concern was to provide a space which would marry the socio-cultural expectations of a temple with the ecological framework and dynamics of and around the site. The immediate context of Cotton and chilly farms in the region were fed by a natural canal system which had dried up. – Sameep Padora & Associates
Situated in the North-Eastern corner of India, lies the beautiful state of Assam. Other than being responsible for producing fifteen per cent of the global demand for tea, the state Assam has a long history, one that spans across battles, centuries, and dynasties. The North-Eastern corner of India was home to many small kingdoms, the largest of them is the kingdom of the Ahoms.
Designed in dialogue with the priest and the people from surrounding villages the temple design is a collaborative effort.
Maruti Mandir at Kalwan An unusual typology that seldom appears in the portfolio of any architectural practice. Temple plays a crucial role in the socio-cultural
The client’s brief was to construct a temple within the premises of their power plant in the village of Bhadresh, Rajasthan, for their employees and
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