Since 1995, LOCATOR has been the de-facto Product Reference Guide for Architects, Designers and others in the Indian Building Industry. LOCATOR has made available to them a printed bound catalog of products all these years as a service. Each volume would feature the latest brands and their product ranges. In addition the catalog would help in their specifications by providing Tech Specs and assist order placement by providing All India Dealers of the products featured.For this unique service LOCATOR won India’s first GOLD EMVIE for Media Invention in 2001.
moreThe White Room Created A Real Garden Room With Fluid Surfaces In Mumbai
Mumbai-based architecture firm The White Room has designed a fluid interior space that is filled with a plenty of vegetation and trees. Named Garden Room, it is the real room that intakes nature in, with bulbous-shaped windows and mini gardens featuring stones, cave-like surfaces and stone age doors.
moreA 1-BHK home as luxurious as a sprawling penthouse
A business woman fond of inviting guests into her glamorously embellished home, roped in the young, enthusiastic designer duo, Smit Bhagat & Rajvi Mehta of deSigneR for her new one bedroom apartment in the suburbs of Mumbai. “It was important to understand the lifestyle, ideologies and druthers of the owner to conceptualise the style of décor,” explains Bhagat.
more7 Indian architects who are renowned for their sustainable practice
Choice in material has always been an integral part for any architect and abiding to naturally available resources can not only turn around any simple design to magnificent but also have minimal environmental impacts. Though most may think that eco-friendly structures don’t add the oomph factor but sustainability has come to the forefront for architects who believe in trifling the environmental impact of their entire construction process.
moreI.M. Pei, architect who designed Louvre Pyramid, dies at 102
I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102. Pei’s death was confirmed Thursday by Marc Diamond, a spokesman for the architect’s New York firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. One of Pei’s sons, Li Chung Pei, told The New York Times his father had died overnight.
moreMultipurpose Furniture: 8 essential pieces for small city apartments
For city dwellers, two things are priority while choosing furniture—it should be decorative and also functional. In city apartments where space is at a premium, every item and piece of furniture needs to do double duty to truly earn its place in the house. In cases like these, buying multipurpose furniture becomes a smart, clever idea to survive space crunch.
moreCadaval & Solà-Morales converts 19th-century theatre into spacious Barcelona home
Aged brick walls and ceiling beams hint at the past lives of this building in Barcelona, which Cadaval & Solà-Morales has turned into a contemporary home. Named after its former life as a drama venue, The Theatre house has been overhauled by local studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales to feature lofty living and work spaces.
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