Framed along Hyderabad’s rapid Outer Ring Road, this architectural gateway uses monolithic stone structures to mirror the course of the Musi River. It stands as a poetic monument of memory and homecoming, inviting a bustling modern metropolis to pause and remember the waters that gave it life.
The competition entry for a memorial proposing a water purification plant on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site, by GDK Designs is based on transforming toxic land into renewed life, symbolising healing and collective remembrance through purification.
The site for the proposed Indian National War Museum is one of the few remaining ‘un-built’ sites amongst the plots
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
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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.
