Is this a home with a garden or a garden with a home? A visit to the (very difficult to locate) Lunuganga Estate near Bentota, Sri Lanka doesn’t really answer the question for so[...]

As a child, I had a hands-on approach for trying out different ideas, as bookish knowledge never fully satisfied me. I often used to make simple objects with available materials at[...]

BEST BEFORE a company based in Paris creates a number of collections; the unifying fact relevant to the entire range is that they are made with materials that are completely biodeg[...]

Casa Incubo in San José, Costa Rica, was ingeniously realised by architect Maria José Trejos by using 8 shipping containers as building shells and employing an impressive array o[...]

Talk of the ‘Raj’ and impressions of colonialism pop into mind. When we refer to art and design of the Raj era, the mind will nestle into a certain old world charm associated w[...]

The Tolix chair is woven with leather laces, a topsy-turvy table has a glass bottom, furniture inspired by plate racks – German designer Sebastian Herkner shows us how to put the[...]

Where Munich is located in southern Germany and is the capital of Bavaria. 30 miles north of the Alps mountain range, one of the city’s main physical features is the Isar River, [...]

Landscaping a garden with a 45 degree slope is quite an uphill task. Award-winning Australian landscape architecture firm Secret Gardens shows us how it can be done and that too wi[...]

It is almost instantaneous the visual impact of John Lopez’s scrap iron sculptures. At first, you are filled with awe and then before you know it you are totally immersed in them[...]

A contemporary home in Vadodara is given a timeless soul by Urvi Shah Associates. Bold shapes contrast with natural material creating a traditional space in a modern shell. Designi[...]