The competition entry design for Bombay High Court by Sanjay Puri Architects integrates provides a reinterpretation of court architecture as a natural, social, and energy-efficient environment.
The proposal for Pahal Sports Facility, by SpaceMatters, is derived from the core ambition of the brief, i.e., “creating an international quality sporting centre of excellence, grounded by the overarching values of Takshila rooted in culture, community, environmental consciousness, and learning.”
The proposal for PAHAL-Takshila’s Initiative for Sports, by ArchitectureRED, looks to further transform the site into a sports institution, we see an opportunity to reveal this cultural landscape – the inherent qualities that are a product of this context.
The Project Tuljapur Temple Complex transcend the basic needs of the pilgrim and enrich his/her experience in the temple and the town.
Design Plus Architects’ Competition Entry- Diu Educational Hub, proposes to continue the lineage of Diu with an ecologically and culturally sustainable proposal.
The proposed design by RC Architects for the IIA Satara Competition stood third in the competition’s Education category.
The design for the Banganga Crematorium evolves as a series of diverging paths and routes traced out on a restored site topography and affected by pre-existing conditions – such as Samadhi structures that needed to be retained, a community temple that needed to be redesigned at the exact same location within the plot,
– Suprio Bhattacharjee
War Museum, by Collaborative Architecture
Sanjay Prakash, Managing Principal of SHiFt, writes about his unbuilt project that shaped SHiFt’s design philosophy, serving as prototype that informed future work. Decades later, IIT Jodhpur embodied these evolved ideas, highlighting unbuilt designs’ enduring role in architectural innovation.
Ruturaj Parikh, for his epilogue for Unbuilt 1.0, writes about how the unbuilt architectural projects in India reveal ideological positions and cultural values more clearly than built work, representing important discourse on housing, urban design, and civic spaces beyond commercial concerns.
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Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.
Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.
