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Editor's Letter: An editor, a photographer, and their creative pursuits

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma discovers a new way of seeing with photographer Dayanita Singh, and reveals the AD100 list of 2025.

AD talks to Kohler CEO, David Kohler on India's strong sense of design

Read on to see what the 150-year-old premium home fixtures brand from America has in store for its Indian audience.

Editor's Letter: A love letter to the humble garden

With this Gardens issue, AD India Editor, Komal Sharma, visits many physical and philosophical gardens where the play of time and nature is all-pervasive.

Editor's Letter: Sonam Kapoor, a collector and an ambassador of arts and crafts

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma on Sonam Kapoor's bold and authentic vision for her new house in Mumbai.

Editor's Letter: Homes that make us nostalgic

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma takes a walk down memory lane to a home where we all grew up.

Editor's Letter: Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the maharaja of revival

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma follows the young maharaja of Jaipur through previously veiled-away parts of the royal City Palace complex.

Editor's Letter: The stories we manifest

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma's serendipitous start to the year, with Bijoy Jain on the cover.

Editor's Letter: Ladakh, a cinematic region with sensible, sustainable design

AD India editor, Komal Sharma closes the year with tales from the land of the high passes.

Editor's Letter: What our homes say about us

AD India editor, Komal Sharma on homes that quietly but wonderfully mirror the lives of its inhabitants.
Architecture

Everything we know so far about David Adjaye’s sexual assault allegations

The Ghanaian British architect has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and promoting a toxic work culture by former employees.

Editor's Letter: The road that leads to sustainability

AD India editor, Komal Sharma on sustainable design interventions and its alterable effects.

Editor's Letter: An appetite for all things rare and beautiful

AD India editor, Komal Sharma unveils Karan Johar's ''over the top'' bachelor pad in Mumbai, and the AD100 list of 2023. 

9 amazing facts you absolutely wouldn’t have guessed about BV Doshi

The doyen of Indian architecture, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi passed away at the age of 95, on 24 January. AD uncovers some surprising facts about the architect.

Editor's Letter: The delight of discovery

AD India editor Komal Sharma on an AD100 collaboration made all the more memorable with a visit in person.

Virendra Kumar’s unmatched collection of Indian art is now on view

90 works of India’s greatest modern and contemporary masters come together in an elegiac ensemble in remembrance of Kumar Gallery’s founder Virendra Kumar

Editor's Letter: Connecting the dots

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma, on the serendipitous making of the very first issue of 2022

Editor’s Letter: Home Bittersweet Home

AD India Editor, Komal Sharma on the courage it takes to let the world into your home

Do women homebuyers really have an advantage?

We speak to property lawyers, builders, and real estate consultancy firms to explore the situation on the ground

A closer look at George Nakashima’s instinctual woodworking

The Japanese-American architect celebrated the live edge with a style that emphasised nature's imperfections

Gandhi Jayanti 2020: 15 rare photos of the Mahatma

As the world gears up to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, we take a walk through history

AD Weekender 2020: Take a look at our speaker line-up for the 3-day event

AD’s first virtual festival, the AD Weekender, 25–27 September 2020, brings together a diverse set of people from art, design, architecture, craftsmanship and fashion

Looking back at the life of the acclaimed Indian-origin artist Zarina Hashmi

Hashmi, who recently passed away, was one of the artists who represented India at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and earned the President’s Award for Printmaking in 1969 (India)

International Women’s Day 2020 | A day in the life of Ritu Nanda

Get to know the lady behind some of the most stunning projects in the country. Here's what Ritu's schedule looks like

International Women’s Day 2020 | A day in the life of Vinita Chaitanya

Get to know the lady behind some of the most stunning projects in the country. Here's what Vinita's schedule looks like

International Women’s Day 2020 | A day in the life of Brinda Somaya

Get to know the lady behind some of the most remarkable projects in the country. Here's what Brinda's schedule looks like

International Women’s Day 2020 | A day in the life of Shefali Balwani

Get to know the lady behind some of the most remarkable projects in the country. Here's what Shefali's schedule looks like

International Women’s Day 2020 | A day in the life of Abha Narain Lambah

Get to know the lady behind some of the most remarkable projects in the country. Here's what Abha's schedule looks like

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara win the coveted 2020 Pritzker Prize

The Irish architects, who founded Grafton Architects in 1978, have amassed major awards for their forward-thinking approach to buildings in cities ranging from Lima to Milan

The German industrial designer, Ingo Maurer passes away at the age of 87

The news of Maurer's demise came as a tragic setback for the design community. We pay an ode to the revolutionary creative

Expert Speak: What the Union Budget 2019 means for the construction industry

Architect Santosh Wadekar offers his perspective on the good, the bad and the ugly, in terms of the 2019 budget