The Park Hotel Hyderabad - High Performance Design with local culture

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the New York-based architectural firm, has recently completed The Park Hotel Hyderabad, the flagship hotel for The Park Hotel Group. This 531,550-square-foot, 270-room hotel infuses a modern, sustainable design with the local craft traditions, and is influenced by the region’s reputation as a center for the design and production of gemstones and textiles. Roger Duffy, SOM’s Partner in Charge of the project,...

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Sadhguru's Today's Message - 18.02.13

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Sadhguru's Today's Message - 16.02.2013

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Mystic Chalet Interiors

                A chalet is a type of building or house, originally from Europe, made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof with wide, well-supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the house. However, the modern version of a chalet is equally interesting, so here are some design inspirations of a modern chalet with amazing concepts reflecting elegance and mystic ambience.  The...

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Designing with Black or Dark Gray as dominant colors

Why is it that some spaces look gorgeous and elegant with a predominance of darker colors while others look drab, cold, too small or ‘too dark’, more than anything else? There following are several of the key factors to consider when using black or dark colors in designing a space: 1) Size The space needs to be large enough to augment the dark colors with other design elements.  If the room is too small it will feel even...

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Amazing campus of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Adjacent to the Seattle Center and its towering Space Needle, a sprawling asphalt parking lot covered fertile ground that once had a rich history. The 12-acre site had been a clearing in a forest with a wetland that provided respite for migratory waterfowl traveling the Pacific Flyway; it had also been a meadow where Native Americans held community potlatch ceremonies. Over the years, the site was built up to house, at different times,...

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An Oasis at the Sahara

  One year after it closed, can Sahara site become a symbol of Las Vegas’ rebound? It's only fitting that a developer is planning a new oasis for Las Vegas to replace a project called the Sahara. The developer SBE announced today the groundbreaking for SLS Las Vegas, a new $415 million hotel and casino remodeling project being undertaken by Philippe Starck and Gensler. The development is an adaptive reuse of the Sahara, a casino...

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Kareena Kapoor’s glamorous journalist avatar in Prakash Jha’s Satyagraha

People say that Kareena Kapoor has started looking like a begum after ‘Khan’ got attached to her name. And perhaps they are right. This image from the sets of Prakash Jha’s Satyagraha displays a regal aura around this glamorous lady. Is this the ‘Saif Ali Khan effect’? We would like to think so! What’s more, we know that Bebo is playing the role of a television journalist in the movie and she totally looks the part with an identity card (probably...

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Rani Mukerji plays a journalist in Bombay Talkies

After No One Killed Jessica, Rani Mukerji is set to don the garb of a journalist once again for Bombay Talkies. The film is a bouquet of four stories directed by different directors – Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. It is an ode to 100 years of Indian cinema. The story directed by Karan features Rani, Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem. Both Karan and Rani have been best friends ever since the actor made...

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Congress leaders ask FM to raise IT exemption limit

Increasing subsidised cooking gas cylinders from nine to 12, more jobs, curbing price rise and providing income tax relief to the salaried class were some of the wishes Congress leaders shared with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday during his pre-budget consultations, said party leaders."Issues like farm sector, minorities, tribal development, education and infrastructure sector were raised. Out of the 46 leaders present, 32, including...

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Sadhguru's Today's Message - 14.02.2013

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"Ten New Rules for Project Managers" ~ Hal Macomber

1. Embrace uncertainty. Expect the unexpected. There is far more that we don't know and can't know than what we can anticipate. Be resilient to what life throws at you. Anticipate that your team will learn something along the way that can and should change what you have promised and how you can deliver on your promises. And when you take a set-back — we all do sometime or another — review the other nine rules for how you can work...

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A Humble Snack Gets to Shine - Almond Tikki

Ziya’s almond tikki. MUMBAI — When Vineet Bhatia was a hotel management student in New Delhi in the 1980s, he would regularly snack on aloo tikki at local street stalls. “It was the cheapest thing you could eat: chickpeas and potatoes,” says the Mumbai-born chef, “and it was absolutely divine.” Mr. Bhatia elevates this north Indian roadside staple at Ziya, a restaurant in Mumbai’s Oberoi Hotel that he has managed since 2010....

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SANGATH - The Architect's Office in Ahmedabad, India

  Sangath is an attempt to reinterpret the rich architectural traditions of India and find their resolution in contemporary architecture, where a perennial search for Indian ethos and contextual idiom finds its answers. Gradual unfolding of spaces through shifting axis, inbuilt thresholds and sense of layering are key attributes of space organisation. The non axial route of movement makes it exploratory with built in surprises...

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