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What Champawat Market Plaza Teaches Us About Sustainable Design
I recently read an article that caught my eye. It was about a public center built for artisans in Champawat, a town in Uttarakhand. I love to travel, and I've actually visited some of the remote towns in this region before. It's known as "Devbhoomi," or land of the gods. If you want to build something in the Himalayas; a home, a hotel, anything, you have to respect the land. It's beautiful, but it's fragile. Sometimes the smartest choice is knowing what not to build. That's w
Komal Bhide
Jul 202 min read
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How a New Generation of Architects Is Designing with Natural Light
Natural light gives architecture its presence. Long before it becomes a question of performance, comfort, or energy efficiency, light shapes how we feel a space. It reveals the texture of a wall. It deepens an opening. It marks the quiet passage of time inside a room. Architects like Tadao Ando and Alvar Aalto treated daylight as an essential design material, not just a detail. In Ando's work, light often guides the eye toward stillness and contemplation. In Aalto's, it makes
Komal Bhide
Jul 133 min read
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