Indian Architecture Designs: Modern Buildings
Key contemporary architecture developments in South Asia. Modern properties in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities.
post updated 12 September 2026
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We choose key examples of Indian Architecture. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across India. The focus is on contemporary Indian buildings but information on traditional buildings in India is also welcome.
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Indian Architecture News
Architecture News for India – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
30 December 2025
Potash Tower, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Northwestern India
Architect: INI Design Studio
photo : Vinay Panjwani
1 December 2025
Embassy Zenith, Bangalore, Karnataka, central India
Architecture: AFW, Singapore
photo : Studio Recall
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India Architecture News 2024 – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
2 June 2024
Narsighar House, Nokha, Rajasthan
Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects
photo : Vinay Punjwani
12 April 2024
De-Luxe DXP High Rise Residential, Gurugram, Haryana, northern India
Design: Aedas
image courtesy of architects practice
DXP High Rise Residential, Gurugram, Haryana
13 March 2024
Nokha Village Community Centre, Silwa-Mulwas, Nokha, Rajasthan, northern India
Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects
photo : Vinay Punjwani
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Indian Architecture Designs in 2023
20 November 2023
Zen Spaces House, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects
31 October 2023
Silhouette, Nawanshahr, Punjab luxury home
Architecture: 23DC Architects
6 September 2023
Euro School Bannerghatta, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Design: Vijay Gupta Architects (VGA)
photo : Andre Fanthome
Euro School Bannerghatta, Bengaluru
29 August 2023
The Hovering Gardens House
Architecture: Niraj Doshi Design Consultancy
22 August 2023
Sharda University Library, Sharda University, Knowledge Park III, Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
Architecture: Edifice Consultants
photo © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Sharda University Library, Greater Noida
22 August 2023
Avendia Housing, Rajarhat, New Town (Kolkata), West Bengal
Design: Edifice Consultants
photo © Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Avendia Housing Rajarhat
21 August 2023
Monte Carlo Corporate Headquarters, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Northwestern India
Architecture: Edifice Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
photo : Umang Shah
Monte Carlo Corporate Headquarters
28 June 2023
SAS Crown Hyderabad luxury residential development, Hyderabad, central India
Design: Aedas
image courtesy of architects practice
SAS Crown Hyderabad luxury residential development
21 June 2023
Darwin Bucky, Ahmedabad, Gujarat building
Architecture: andblack design studio
photo : Vinay Panjwani
16 June 2023
Ribbon House in Mohali, sector 82, Mohali, Punjab
Architecture: Studio Ardete Architects
photo : architect Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
29 May 2023
Max House, Okhla industrial area, Delhi, northern India
Architects: Studio Lotus
photo © Noughts and Crosses LLP
Max House, Okhla industrial area, Delhi
19 Apr 2023
Apple BKC Flagship Store, Mumbai
Architecture: Foster + Partners
photo © Apple
10 Feb 2023
Totem House Bangalore
Design: Studio Bomb
photo : Amit Kumar
17 Feb 2023
MAP Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru, Karnataka, southern India
Design: Matthew & Ghosh
photo © Iwan Baan
MAP Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore Building
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Indian Architecture in 2022
9 Sep 2022
Residence 145, Chandigarh, northwestern India
Design: Charged Voids led by Architect Aman Aggarwal
Residence 145, southern Chandigarh property
18 Aug 2022
This Is The Place, Mumbai
Architecture: Giles Miller Studio
photo © Edvinas Bruzas
This Is The Place, Mumbai
16 Jun 2022
Narmada BioChem HQ, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Northwestern India
Architecture: Openideas
photos : Sebastian Zachariah-Photographix and Panchkon- Harsh pandya
1 June 2022
The Terracotta House, Agra, northern India
Design: Archohm
photo © Noughts and Crosses
The Terracotta House Agra
1 Apr 2022
Stacked Dwelling, Maharashtra, Mumbai, northwestern India
Architecture: DIG Architects
photo : Phxindia
Stacked Dwelling, Maharashtra Mumbai
28 Mar 2022
Never Never Cube, Sec -82 Mohali, Punjab
Design: Studio Ardete
photo : Ar.Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Never Never Cube, Punjab Office Building
28 Mar 2022
Sanjaynagar, Ahmednagar, Mumbai
Architecture: Community Design Agency
photo : Rajesh Vora
Sanjaynagar Homes + Neighborhood, Mumbai
14 Mar 2022
Studios 90, Kodla, Karnataka, southwestern India
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects
photo : Ricken Desai
Studios 90 Kodla
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18 Oct 2016
Museum of Socialism, Lucknow – Jayaprakash Narayan Interpretation Centre
Design: Archohm Consults
photo from architects
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31 Dec 2015
Chhatrapti Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 Building, Mumbai, India
Architects: Skimore, Owings & Merrill LLP – SOM
photograph © Robert Polidori
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11 Sep 2013
Hyatt Regency Pune, Maharashtra, western India
Hardscape design: Odyssey
photo : Ruchika Grover
Odyssey was responsible for the Hardscape at the Hyatt Regency Pune. The principal architects Bilkey Linas Design and Landscape architect Joel Burega envisioned a tropical feel for the external area of the hotel. Odyssey was involved in the stonework for various elements of the building including its landscape.
30 Jul 2013
Golden Tusk Resort, Uttarakhand
Design: M:OFA
photo : Dev Singh / Mridul Sharma
M:OFA designs a true Agro Resort. The design intent was to give a firsthand experience of countryside living to the urban travelers and sensitize them to the idea of living with nature, effectively utilizing resources and minimizing waste. Apart from being amidst nature in the cottages that resonate the local materials expressed in a contemporary design, the program also includes an animal farm with poultry, cattle, goats, fish and even an elephant for the rides around the forest.
28 Jun 2013
ITM School of Business, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, northern India building news
Design: M:ofa
photo from architect
India in its last ten years has seen a new business environment, where the younger generation is no longer threatened by the western big brothers. They embrace the traditional business idioms, while continuously flying across international waters, marrying the two together at every step; an image of a head soaring high up in the sky with its feet trudging a solid, leveled ground.
18 Jun 2013
Nagaur Fort Rehabilitation, Rajasthan, northwest India
Design: Minakshi Jain
photo : Minakshi Jain
Nagaur Fort Rehabilitation
The project for rehabilitation of this building, involving the training of many artisanal craftsmen, adhered to principles of minimum intervention. Materials and construction methods of an earlier era were rediscovered, paintings and architectural features conserved, and the historic pattern of access through seven successive gates re-created.
Awards for Indian Architecture Practice
Architect Sanjay Puri wins three AR Future Projects Awards
Sanjay Puri Architects, India, was the only firm globally to win three awards at MIPIM ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW Future Projects Awards 2013.
Information for e-architect by ArchitectureLive!
27 Mar 2013
RIBA Charles Correa Exhibition, London – celebrating the gift of Charles Correa’s archive to the RIBA Library
Charles Correa RIBA Exhibition
‘Charles Correa : India’s Greatest Architect’
20 Feb 2013
Skill City, Bangalore, southern India
Design: Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects
Skill City India
Inspired by a printed circuit board and Mandala symbolism, Skill City, a new satellite city is planned outside Bangalore, India. Lee Harris Pomeroy’s Master Plan and design for this 49 million sq. ft. Special Economic Zone (SEZ) encompasses a new technology campus, a 70-story office tower, golf course, residential community and a 5 million SF grass-roofed mall for shopping, exhibition and entertainment.
24 Jan 2013
Indian Hut Workshop, Kanataka, west India
Design: Rintala Eggertsson, Oslo
Indian Hut Workshop
Establishing projects that are affecting the “bottom of the pyramid”, and try to make people think of a more sustainable way of living might be a way to rewrite the future of the few last quiet retreats on earth. This is where the Panchabhuta foundation and Eco-Tourism are routed.
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Indian Architecture Developments 2012
20 Nov 2012
Calicut Restaurant, Kerala, south west India
Design: Collaborative Architecture
Calicut Restaurant
The project is a part of a business hotel (Not classified in Star category), in a tier 3 city in the country, which has been redesigned by the firm as repositioning exercise. The strategy was to create a new identity to the already popular restaurant through interior architecture, making it a new destination dining in the city to spur the business of the hotel.
1 Nov 2012
Bhartiya City, North Bangalore, southern India
Design: Broadway Malyan
Bhartiya City
A new city spanning 125 acres in North Bangalore, India, has been launched by real estate and infrastructure development company Bhartiya Urban, part of the Bhartiya Group, with major input from global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan.
Indian Architecture Projects
New Architectural Portal for India
Indian Architecture Projects news
ArchitectureLive! is India’s unique architectural Portalthat allows Indian architects, interior designers and students to upload, share and manage their projects efficiently. The Portal allows each project to be tagged with huge data that makes it easily searchable on the Internet.
e-architect will occasionally carry a selection of key buildings from ArchitectureLive!
29 Oct 2012
Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal (not India of course but relevant to this page)
Design: Morphogenesis
Soaltee Crowne Plaza
The project brief calls for the refurbishment and interiors of a 40-year-old heritage hotel: the original planning of the building is contemporary in nature but is infused with traditional motifs. The architectural intent and the design approach behind the refurbishment of the hotel follows a similar thought process, embracing both tradition and modernity simultaneously.
22 Oct 2012
Badshahpur IT Park, Gurgaon
Design: 10 DESIGN
Badshahpur IT Park
Badshahpur is located in Gurgaon – one of the largest cities in the Indian state of Haryana, and a major satellite of Delhi. Gurgaon has experienced rapid development over the last 20 years; attracting both regional and global institutions to its infrastructure offering, proximity to the Capital, and for its growth as a hub of information technology, research and development, and engineering.
18 Sep 2012
Residential Building Chennai, south east India
Design: ABIBOO Architecture
Indian Residential Building
The ELA Residential Complex is located in the city of Chennai, in southeast India. The project consists of 1000 apartments and studios, the latter intended for students of a nearby university.
23 Jun 2012
Villa Agra, north west India
Design: Archohm
Villa Agra
An extremely challenging design brief created an opportunity to work around the basic functionalities and requirements of a client in a location where time, energy, money and exposure were unlimited. Agra is an upcoming Tier 2 town, with restrained access to resources; one could dare to dram an idea and it stood a good chance of converting itself to reality.
12 Feb 2012
Raas Jodhpur, Rajasthan, north west India
The Lotus Praxis Initiative
Indian Hotel Building
Set in the heart of the walled city of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, RAAS is a 1.5-acre property uniquely located at the base of the Mehrangarh Fort. The brief was to create a luxury boutique hotel with 39 rooms in the context of the Old city quarter of Jodhpur.
1 Feb 2012
Indian Institute of Architects Awards
Indian Institute of Architects Awards
Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) salutes the political and cultural city of Delhi, on completing 100 years of its re-emergence as modern India’s capital. Commemorating the centenary of the Capital, this year the coveted annual ‘IIA Awards 2011’ were held at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, northern India.
6 Jan 2012
CIPLA Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai
Design: MALIK ARCHITECTURE
CIPLA Pharmaceuticals Mumbai
CIPLA is a large and prestigious Pharmaceuticals company, and their existing facilities in the North of Mumbai needed to be augmented. Vikhroli is an extremely congested and chaotic suburb of Mumbai. The plot itself however, is filled with lush large trees and the location of existing trees and the site profile has dictated the evolution of the design concept.
More Indian Building Designs online soon.
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Modern Indian Buildings
Key Contemporary Architecture in India, alphabetical:
Apollo Tyres Office, Gurgaon
Design: Morphogenesis
Apollo Tyres Gurgaon
Bangalore Hotel + Spa
Mohsin Cooper
Bangalore Hotel + Spa
Bangalore International Airport Building
HOK Architects
Bangalore Airport Building
Bombay Arts Society, Mumbai
Design: Sanjay Puri Architects
Sanjay Puri
Chandigarh Housing, north east India
Morphogenesis
Chandigarh Housing
Chettinad Auditorium, Chennai, S.E. India
Morphogenesis
Indian Architecture : Chettinad Health City
City Centre Mall, Siliguri, north east India
Morphogenesis
Indian Commercial Building
Cricket-Based Communities
Design: Broadway Malyan
Cricket-Based Communities India
Delhi Airport Building
HOK Architects
Delhi Airport Building
Deya Building, Kolkata, eastern India
Arc Studio Architects + Web Structures
Deya Building Kolkata
Druk White Lotus School
Arup Associates
Druk White Lotus School Building
Future Towers, Pune, western India
MVRDV Architects
Future Towers
The Gairola House, Gurgaon, Haryana
Anagram Architects
New Indian House
GMS Grande Palladium, Mumbai
Architect: MALIK ARCHITECTURE
GMS Grande Palladium Mumbai
India Glycols Corporate Office, Noida
Morphogenesis
India Glycols Corporate Office
Kolkata Airport Building
RMJM
Kolkata International Convention Centre
RMJM
Kolkata International Convention Centre
Nariman Point, Mumbai
Chapman Taylor
Nariman Point Building
New Delhi Restaurant
Morphogenesis
New Town Proposal, New Delhi
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ShoP Architects
NGO Magic Bus staff dorm, Karjat Dam
Architecture BRIO
NGO Magic Bus Building
NIFT Campus, Bhubaneswar
Abin Design Studio
NIFT Campus
Pearl Academy of Fashion Jaipur
Morphogenesis
The Qube building, Gurgaon
Morphogenesis
The Qube Gurgaon
Raas Jodhpur, Rajasthan, north west India
The Lotus Praxis Initiative
Indian Hotel Building
Residence for Ashok Patel, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, west India
2007
Matharoo Associates
Sangath buildings, Ahmedabad
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BV Doshi
South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, New Delhi
2007
Anagram Architects
Subterranean house, Kashid, Maharashtra, southwest India
2008
Studio Mumbai Architects
Taj Mahal Palace – Building Renewal, Mumbai
2010
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Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
Tata Housing, Gurgaon, North India
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Tata Housing Gurgaon
Triose building, Lonavala, western India
Sanjay Puri Architects
Triose Building, near Mumbai
University, Bombay
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Gilbert Scott
Vedanta University – Campus Master Plan, Orissa
2007
Ayers/Saint/Gross
Viceroy’s House, (Rastrapati Bhavan), New Delhi
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Edwin Lutyens Architect
Victory Valley, Gurgaon, North India
WOW Architects
Victory Valley Development
VidyalankarTechnology Institute, Mumbai
Architect: Planet 3 Studios Architecture
Mumbai techonology building, Wadala
Vivanta by Taj – Whitefield, Bangalore
Warner Wong Design
Vivanta by Taj
More modern Indian Architecture designs online soon.
Location: India, South Asia.
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Architectural Design India
Indian Architecture Contest News
The SPIRETEC Competition, India
Open architectural design competition in Greater Noida
Indian Architecture Competition
Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai : Building Re-opens
Indian Masterplanning – New Delhi
Architect Edwin Lutyens collaborated with Herbert Baker in building New Delhi.
Sir Basil (Urwin) Spence, Architect – born 13.08.07 in Bombay
More Indian Building Designs online soon
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South Asian Buildings
Architecture News is added on the site daily. Indian Architecture additions are selected for this page and Indian Building Events appear occasionally. Indian building comments welcome.
Buildings / photos for the Contemporary Indian Architecture Designs page welcome.