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Working for good, designing for better with lyth Design in Delhi

Working for good, designing for better with lyth Design in Delhi

As a practitioner, INDE.Awards juror Apoorva Shroff of lyth Design is pushing the design boundaries and doing it with aplomb. The latest project from the studio is beautiful in its aesthetic and appropriate in both function and form, truly supporting those who work to better the community.

“Leaving things better than you found them”: Advocating for a regenerative future with LFIA’s Laura Hamilton-O’Hara

“Leaving things better than you found them”: Advocating for a regenerative future with LFIA’s Laura Hamilton-O’Hara

As CEO of the Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA), Laura Hamilton-O’Hara is concerned with how various factors come together to produce our built environment. Initiatives such as the Living Building Challenge are pushing towards a sustainable status quo.

Our response to the Architects Declare Open Letter to design media

Our response to the Architects Declare Open Letter to design media

What is the media’s role in pushing a more sustainable agenda? Indesign Media Asia Pacific editor Aleesha Callahan responds to the open letter.

Tackling housing density on the Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist

Tackling housing density on the Victorian Architecture Awards shortlist

The shortlist for the Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Architecture Awards has been published. Nightingale Village is one of the projects in the mix and we spoke to Austin Maynard Architects about their part in it.

Sustainable edification: India’s first net-positive building

Sustainable edification: India’s first net-positive building

Leading the way in design, Edifice Consultants has conceived and realised India’s first net-positive building and, in doing so, has created a template for the here and now.

Moving between tradition and modernity at Chennai’s Boat Club Apartments

Moving between tradition and modernity at Chennai’s Boat Club Apartments

SJK Architects is an award-winning practice based in Mumbai. For this project, however, the focus is in Chennai, where Boat Club Apartments combine a sense of communal living with privacy and independence.

Climate change is right now, and architect James Davidson is ready

Climate change is right now, and architect James Davidson is ready

Architect James Davidson of JDA Co. wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when natural disaster strikes.