Buwa Residence by Think With Us explores minimalism in the 21st century as an evolved pursuit of calm, clarity, and balance. The design uses clean lines, minimal details, clutter-free functionality, and recurring curves and arches to create a free-flowing, cohesive home. A restrained palette of neutral tones, warm wood, and subtle hues adds warmth while maintaining a sense of spatial fluidity.
Villa Corsica by Neel Buddhadev is conceived as a sculptural and deeply personal home shaped by art, color, and experience. The design treats architecture as a composition rather than a conventional container, using bold surfaces, abstract forms, and carefully choreographed movement to create moments of pause and discovery. Privacy, atmosphere, and visual expression come together to transform everyday living into an engaging spatial experience.
Neel Buddhadev is a Mumbai-based multidisciplinary design practice working across spatial design, graphic design and design strategy. Rooted in the belief that architecture should evoke emotion as well as serve function, the studio creates context-responsive environments shaped by art, color, form and movement, crafting immersive, expressive and deeply personal experiences.
Przełomy Dialogue Center by KWK Promes creates an urban design hybrid, combining the traditions of a quarter and a square. The museum is hidden underground as a background architecture, while the concrete floor rises into artificial hills and cuboidal blocks. The open public space encourages social interactions, transforming a place of historical memory into a contemporary urban interior.
SaaRang Skin & Laser Clinic by Studio V16 is designed as a calm, welcoming healthcare environment that balances clinical efficiency with patient comfort. The design emphasizes spatial clarity, material warmth, and a natural palette of warm wood, textured stone, soft neutral colours, and indoor planting. Clean geometry, layered lighting, and spatial continuity create a warm, human-centred alternative to the conventional clinical atmosphere.
Studio V16 is an architecture and interior design practice based in Surat, founded by architect Vikas Rakholiya.
Noira by Studio Deshi is a study in quiet restraint, navigating between shadow and light, surface and void, stillness and movement. Guided by the line and the light, its monastic palette, rich textures, warm wood, and distilled materiality create a calm spatial choreography. Geometry shapes flow while texture replaces ornament, allowing the home to recede into a sense of stillness and sanctuary.
Dr. Banerjee’s Homeopathy Clinic by Yellow Door Architects translates the clinic’s legacy and progressive outlook into a contemporary healthcare environment. Minimalism forms the foundation, creating a calm, organised, and welcoming setting through a restrained material palette, natural elements, and thoughtful spatial planning. The design balances functionality, comfort, and visual warmth while reinforcing the clinic’s commitment to holistic healing.
Yellow Door Architects is a young design practice led by Joshua John and Juhi Patel, rooted in an Indian contemporary ethos. The practice creates timeless, inspiring spaces through meticulous detailing, contextual sensitivity and close collaboration. Its approach responds to climate, site and natural light while seamlessly integrating architecture, interiors, landscape, furniture and lighting to create cohesive, personalized environments.
Evo Pavilion by Sankalp Designers reimagines the conventional sales office as an experience centre, where architecture becomes the first introduction to the project’s philosophy. The design creates a calm, contemporary bohemian environment through nature, materiality and tactile textures, while the central lounge becomes a flexible social nucleus for interaction, gathering and shared experiences.
This renovation project by Hutz Architects was conceived as an open-ended design process, allowing the historic building fabric revealed on site to guide the intervention. Original layers and traces were retained, while carefully designed contemporary insertions create a restrained dialogue between the historic fabric and contemporary working environments. The approach reflects a sensitive form of adaptive reuse, preserving the building’s character.
ForD Avenue Façade System Upgradation by Say Architects gives the flagship store a refreshed architectural identity and a “Golden Ambience.” The building is gently wrapped in a golden veil of fixed metal panels, with varied density and spacing creating a subtle gradient and rhythmic visual effect. The alternating composition invites river views and natural light, creating an organic dialogue between architecture and its environment.
Vila Nova Apartment, a refurbishment project by Fcstudio, rethinks the home around the new owner’s way of living. Walls were suppressed and spaces integrated to increase the social area and create greater flexibility. A large woodwork panel organizes the apartment and enhances the social space, while architecture, lighting, and furniture design work together to create harmony throughout the interior.
Bihailou Art Village by MVRDV is a vertical reinterpretation of the surrounding village, based on the concept of the “Vertical Village.” Instead of a single large volume, the design stacks fragmented “houses” of different colours, shapes, and materials, inspired by the surrounding buildings. The project combines density with humanity, creating a three-dimensional cultural landscape that reflects the individuality and community of village life.
Parallel Territories by The Local Crew explores how architecture can exist without disrupting deeply rooted ecological routines. The design is rooted in non-interference, allowing humans and wildlife to share territory without crossing paths, yet remain visually connected. Rather than blending into nature, the architecture takes a contrarian stance—an alien presence that is deliberately stark, legible, and distinct, enabling parallel living.
The Local Crew is a multidisciplinary design practice established in 2019, working across architecture, interiors, landscape, and 3D visualization. Led by five partners with diverse interests, the practice collaborates to create sensitive, people-centric spaces. Their approach combines client needs, sustainability, local materials, traditional building techniques, and rigorous research across projects ranging from farmhouses and residences to offices and apartment interiors.
Green Heart Commercial Complex & A4X Art Center by E Plus Design reinterprets Chongqing’s traditional “mountain city” character through a contemporary, park-integrated destination. Cascading, pixel-like volumes follow the hillside, connected by stairs, ramps, courtyards, bridges, and terraces, recreating the spontaneity and layered circulation of old Chongqing. Commerce, art, landscape, and community life form a flexible “incubator” framework.
Portland Art Museum Transformation by Hennebery Eddy Architects and Vinci-Hamp Architects creates a more connected, accessible, and welcoming museum experience. At its centerpiece, the Rothko Pavilion bridges two historic buildings through a transparent, contemporary form, establishing a new main entry and intuitive circulation. The design respects its historic partners while opening the museum to its urban neighborhood and community.
Vinci-Hamp Architects is dedicated to enhancing the built environment through historic preservation and high-quality contemporary design. With extensive experience in preserving and reusing historic buildings, VHA values their character, materials, scale, and adaptability. Its new architecture emphasizes clear function, structure, refined proportions, quality materials, and timeless forms, creating dignified, well-organized, and enduring spaces.
Four Rooms by RC Architects is a bespoke healthcare sanctuary that seamlessly combines dental and ENT care under one roof. The design transcends the ordinary, creating a healing retreat where health meets harmony. Thoughtfully curated colours, natural sunlight, ambient lighting and a seamless blend of clinical efficiency with warmth create an inviting, soothing atmosphere that puts patients at ease.
Trimasys Control System Pvt Ltd by Design Studio Associates envisions a workspace that reflects an open, collaborative, and flat organizational culture. The office design translates Trimasys’ progressive work culture into spatial form through open planning, seamless interaction, and a unified design language. A restrained palette with vibrant accents and varied textures creates a dynamic, balanced, and future-ready environment.
Design Studio Associates is an interior design practice based in Pune, India.
‘Revival of Muslin’ is an architecture thesis by Rajoana Islam from the ‘Faculty of Architecture and Planning – Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST).’ The project aims to revive Bengal muslin as a living cultural and economic heritage by creating a dedicated center for research, training, weaving, and public engagement. It seeks to support local artisans, preserve traditional knowledge, integrate modern technology, and establish sustainable, climate-responsive conditions for producing high-quality muslin.
By the way House by KWK Promes takes its form from the road that had to reach the middle of the plot. The architects lifted “the way” and wrapped it around the residence, allowing it to shape the floors, walls and ceilings. It then returns to the garden level, leading through the steep hill to the river without cutting out any trees. The road becomes the main motif of the project.
