Connect – Engage – Explore is a concept generated on the basis of which, this Gallery has been designed to envisage the dynamic and innovative character of Bangalore. This concept has been implemented to develop a binding connection between the city and its scientific temperament.
Redeveloping Youth Hostel, Art Gallery, and Café, Old Nasik, by The Cave Laboratory for research, architecture, & planning is a mixed-use redevelopment combining youth hostel, art gallery, and café, respecting traditional architecture while embracing modern needs through stepped, courtyard-centred design.
The idea behind Art & Science Gallery, by Shilpa Architects Planners Designers is to create a building that will take its rightful place among international peers- one that is modern in outlook, but Indian in soul.
Designed by Dylan Baliski, Loch on Wood is a wildlife architecture proposal in Scotland that creates a shared habitat for people and birds. Inspired by bird migration, the design connects visitors with the surrounding landscape through immersive circulation, panoramic views, and spaces that celebrate biodiversity and nature-responsive architecture.
The Red Ribbon Riverwalk is a speculative riverfront masterplan created by AIRIlab to demonstrate the capabilities of artificial intelligence in architectural design. Envisioned as a seamless architectural thread reconnecting the city with its river, the proposal unfolds as a series of bridges, promenades, and public spaces, illustrating how AI can support the development of cohesive visions for urban waterfronts and civic infrastructure.
Stefano Boeri Architetti’s master plan for the Ramagrama Stupa in Nepal seeks to enhance one of Buddhism’s most sacred sites through a sensitive landscape approach. Centered on the revered Bodhi Tree and the ancient stupa housing Buddha’s relics, the proposal introduces a Peace Meadow and a biodiverse Ring Garden that foster prayer, meditation, and contemplation while preserving the site’s archaeological and spiritual significance for future generations.
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.
Ghisellini Architetti’s “Green Kilometre” transforms a 9,000-square-meter site into an inclusive, open-access public space characterized by a fluid network of pedestrian paths. By integrating circular activity hubs into the landscape, the design successfully fosters community interaction and physical well-being while anchoring the modern intervention against a preserved historic wall.
Memory in motion reinterprets the archetypal circular vicinato of historic Matera as a modern public intervention, transforming the Serra Venerdì park into a labyrinthine landscape for community exchange. This urban installation bridges ancestral settlement patterns with contemporary social infrastructure, grounding the site’s modern fabric in the enduring heritage of the Murgian territory.
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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.
