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Architecture

Before and After: Upgraded, not uprooted

Studio PKA reimagines its SoBo office with memory, light and restraint

11 Aug 2025

Tishika Deora

Sustainable Homes

Before/After with a side of greens

D’WELL flips a 40-year-old home in Surat inside-out to craft a workspace amidst nature’s lap

19 Mar 2025

Chiransha Prasad

Vacation Homes

Before/After: A chapel and a chickoo tree inspires the restoration of a century-old Goan villa by Ariane Thakore Ginwala and Field Atelier

From the apple that fell on Newton’s head to water falling out of Archimedes’ bathtub, history proves that inspiration strikes in the strangest ways. However, a clear dilemma arises when one looks at Quitula House, a 160-year-old villa nestling in Aldona. The Goan town brims with multiple sources of picturesque inspiration. Which one was Ariane […]