News

Projects as they open, case studies, publications and awards, and notes from the studio.

Built and being built

Restaurant shell nearing completion, with the pool basin cast in front · ProjectBuilding AyatiAyati Resort, from the empty hillside to the finished resort, in the photographs taken along the way: the site, the model, the design and the building work.

Designs

Concept render of a thirteen-storey tower with teak galleries and a tiled roof pavilion, seen from above its forecourt · Concept case studyAakash WadaA thirteen-storey block of flats for Pune, drawn as a concept, that builds upward the way the city's old wadas built inward, from a basalt plinth to a tiled pavilion on the roof.Concept render of the brick and concrete-frame tower and its rooftop solar canopy, seen from above the plot · Concept case studySaavliSaavli is a residential tower concept for Pune made of shade, a bare concrete frame filled with brick and brick jaali, repeated twelve times and finished by the people who live in it.Concept render of a seven-storey building wrapped in planted ledges that swell and thin from floor to floor · Concept case studyKaatalSeven storeys of planted ledges stacked like the basalt layers of the hills around Pune, with a plain concrete frame behind the gardens; a studio concept for 12 flats.Concept render of a hospital with a terracotta veil, angled ward bay windows and a jaali-wrapped stair tower · Concept case studyAanganA concept for a 120-bed hospital in Pune built round a courtyard with a rain tree in it, where every ward room has a bay window with a seat for the family member who stays.