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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:41:13 +0530
Alien designs
Nanditta Chibber / New Delhi September 2, 2006
Select Indian architects talk to us about their most unusual design
solutions.
Wild, wacky, unusual and different. With these adjectives, we posed a
question to some Indian architects who are busy designing schools,
hotels, corporate offices and infotech parks.
We put them to task and asked them to pick up the most “unconventional”
structure that they had designed. From an egg shaped office to landscape
which makes its way into a hotel’s interiors, to an otherwise
drab-looking mill transformed magically into trendy office space, these
architects told us stories of some of the most fascinating structures
they’ve designed.
There’s also India’s first home decor park in Noida and an unusual
flower auction hall in Bangalore that feature in our list. While it’s
easy for designs to be unusual, what makes these structures unique is
their easy marriage with functionality.
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* Sohrab Dalal
* Quaid Doongerwala
* Vidur Bhardwaj
* Deb Guha
* Prem Chandavarkar
* Hafeez Contractor
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