Indian National War Museum, New Delhi – Competition Entry by T.E.A.M.
The site for the proposed Indian National War Museum is one of the few remaining ‘un-built’ sites amongst the plots
The site for the proposed Indian National War Museum is one of the few remaining ‘un-built’ sites amongst the plots
The National War Museum design proposal by Sameep Padora and Associates envisages the Museum as a physical space showcasing the efforts of the Armed Forces and the Vanguard in maintaining India as a sovereign republic to its visitors from across India.
Not many works of architecture hold as much weight and significance as a memorial. These powerful monuments stand as symbolic spaces, evoking solemnity, solidarity, and reverence. Their spaces represent the gravity of war, evoke memory and commemorate sacrifice. – Kumar Architects
The design of the National Police Memoria manifests itself in the stability inherent in a system of charged site-lines. It suggests that human reason is at play when an extremely irrational and loose system is confined. The system also reveals the latent disturbances and the potential to lose balance with mild agitation to the confinement.
The population of people living in slums in India, today exceeds the entire population of Britain. Slum Clearance projects as variously seen in the past have had limited success with incongruous built environments imposed
LIVING WEAVE, at New Delhi, India, by S|BAU / Suprio Bhattacharjee
Party School, at Kotla Road, New Delhi, by Nu Design Daftar
This work was conceptualized as an International public standard amenities project for a new national highway (eastern peripheral expressway) around New Delhi India. Many independent functions such as hotel, food courts, hospitals, petrol pump with electric charging facility, dhabas, local handicraft market, car and truck parking facility, public parks and large fountains were all seamlessly incorporated in planning of this 10 hectare land.
Way Side Amenties, at Delhi, by Kalayojan Architects
ITO Skywalk, New Delhi, by Chaukor Studio
![National war memorial, New Delhi. © RLDA Studio. [why un-built matters by Rahoul B. Singh]](https://unbuiltideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/National-war-memorial-New-Delhi.-©-RLDA-Studio.jpg)
Rahoul B. Singh elaborates on how the unbuilt architectural projects represent a pure disciplinary essence, serving as archives of ideas and zeitgeist before external collaboration compromises, revealing architecture’s evolving practice methods and conceptual ambitions.
The “Narratives in Architecture” studio, by Meghal Arya and Sonali Gurung, in CEPT University, Ahmedabad, reimagines university campuses as dynamic palimpsests. Students explored future transformations using hand drawings and storytelling, driven by imagined apocalyptic events.
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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.
