Could a building be both Figure as well as Ground?
Can it be two-faced and respond to two contexts and divergent requirements?
Can spaces of interiority, such as sports halls, assume an urban role of exteriority?
How can a building dissolve into the landscape and yet assert its presence as an object?
Hoverspace
Kohler Bold Design Awards – Winner Commercial Space Kohler, 2022
Elle Decor Magazine Award Ceremony held at Bengaluru, 2022
Can the ‘New’ be grafted onto the ‘Old’ with the least amount of intervention?
How can structure, space, and skin come together to create one unified urban object out of several disparate parts?
How can a building respond to several contexts by using one unified strategy?
How does one synthesise a new spatial order through the act of grafting?
Does a graft also metamorphose the host?
Stacked Student Housing
Featured in ArchDaily – “Urban Visions: How India is Shaping the Future of Housing”
Featured in Rethinking The Future – “Housing Design in India – 10 Exceptional Examples”
NDTV Design and Architecture Award – Winner in Group Housing Category NDTV Award Ceremony held at Mumbai, 2017
GROHE-NDTV Design And Architecture Awards – Group Housing, 2017
14 Trends Excellence Awards – Housing Trends Magazine Award Ceremony held at Mumbai, 2017
SG ET Awards – Winner Saint Gobain / Economic Times Award Ceremony held at Delhi, 2018
What are the gradations between public and private in student housing?
Can a small urban site support density in the Z direction if not in the X and Y direction?
Can ‘section’ become a generator of form and space?
How does a building assume the role of an urban anchor in a neighbourhood?
How does one use the section to liberate the constrictions of a site?
Can a build assert itself and stand tall in a neighbourhood that seeks to dwarf it?
How should the skin respond to the space within?
Can small, potentially claustrophobic interior spaces coagulate around larger social spaces to create an integrated whole that is greater than its parts?
Can a suburban house express its inner diagram by subtle juxtapositions in form?
Can a house be opaque and inscrutable while also allowing for transparency?
How does one pay homage to a neighbourhood without creating a pastiche?
Centenary Museum for KLE Society
KLE University Museum – the making, by thirdspace architecture studio
GROHE-NDTV Design And Architecture Awards 2016
Kohler Bold Design Awards, 2022
NDTV Design and Architecture Award – Special Commendation for Public Space – Interiors NDTV – 2016
Indian Institute of Interior Designers – IIID Zonal Winner (West Zone) for Public Buildings – Award Ceremony held at Bali, Indonesia, 2016
Indian Institute of Interior Designers – IIID National Winner for Public Buildings – Award Ceremony held at Bali, Indonesia, 2016
Trends Excellence Awards – Special Mention for Public Building Interiors Trends Magazine Award Ceremony held at Mumbai, 2016
How much should one intervene in a heritage structure?
Is it possible for a building to retain its antiquarian roots and yet be a site of exploration for contemporary formal explorations?
How can the narrative of a museum intertwine across centuries and also across landscape and building?
Praveen Bavadekar, in his review for Five Architectural Fables by Edgar Demello, opines how the architectural fables ingeniously critique urban design through non-human perspectives, transforming complex environmental and design challenges into provocative, imaginative storytelling.
Praveen Bavadekar reviews the Apple Store TRX in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by Foster+Partners, as a revisit of Miesian glass box design, blending millennia-old spatial techniques with a century-old architectural obsession.
This talk delves into how urbanity pervades through the Indian landscape beyond its big cities, where homogenising forces of commerce and a seeping consumer culture contests with deeply rooted, and sometimes historical, structures of power and community. Through their work in three medium sized cities a few hundred kilometres from one another, Bavadekar attempts to see how cities come to define their urban identity.
“DeGraaf seeks to lay bare the vacuousness and the fluff that’s behind most buildings built today”, Praveen Bavadekar reviews ‘architect, verb’, By Reinier De Graaf
Praveen Bavadekar discusses how history is often taught linearly, focusing on chronological facts and artifacts, disconnected from other subjects like design and construction. He suggests history could be more integrated, fostering connections between different periods and disciplines. Bavadekar highlights examples of architects critically engaging with the past to inform their present and future work, advocating for a more dynamic and relevant approach to historical studies in architecture.
The Gangubai Hangal Gurukul in Hubli was dedicated to the nation on March 5, which happened to be the doyenne’s 99th birth anniversary.
Corporate Office for Doddannavar BrothersIn the path of tradition
Gangubai Hangal Gurukula
Commendation Trophy for Best Institutional Building – 22nd JK Architect of the Year Awards
Awarded at a ceremony held at the Leela Chennai in 2012
5 Young Designers Shortlist by Indian Architect and Builder Magazine, 2012 (Published in the magazine)
Praveen Bavadekar, architect at ThirdSpace Architecture Studio shares his thoughts on the architectural legacy that we carry, and the road ahead for Indian architecture.
