Luxury Resort in Kaziranga

A Kaziranga Luxury Resort: in the Home of the Rhinoceros

A 120-room luxury resort near Kaziranga immerses guests in rewilded landscapes of grasslands, wetlands, and ponds, offering close encounters with nature and wildlife. This amoeba shaped hotel embodies a sensitive and forward-thinking approach, where luxury meets ecological responsibility.

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Boutique Resort design in Sikkim

Where Nature Thrives in Tranquility: Boutique Resort in Sikkim

Architecture BRIO is excited to unveil its latest endeavor: a luxury boutique resort nestled in one of Sikkim’s most pristine forest landscapes. The design aims to foster a harmonious relationship between guests and the forest, allowing them to connect with the natural world in ways both intimate and awe-inspiring.

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The Ray on the cover of Post Magazine, Hong Kong

Nestled in the breathtaking coastal town of Alibag, The Ray takes center stage in the latest edition of The South China Morning Post’s Sunday culture magazine, “Post Magazine.” With its timeless elegance, “The Ray” embodies the perfect blend of natural luxury and serenity.

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BillionBricks Homes wins double prize at Holcim Awards

The built environment has a significant role to play in addressing climate change and enabling the transition to a net zero and more inclusive future. The winning project of Billionbricks homes at The Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction global showcases the cutting edge of approaches to sustainable design, green architecture and materials innovation.

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President's Design Award

Etania Green School wins Singapore President*s Award!

The Etania Green School in Malaysia wins the * DESIGN OF THE YEAR 2020, at the prestigious President*s Award of Singapore. More than just a school building, the school is a learning ecosystem designed for the tens of thousands of stateless children whose parents work in the oil palm plantations of Sabah.

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Sea Change - Flood Resilient Architecture Exhibition

The Sponge Beneath Our Feet

The Etania Green School is part of the new exhibition “Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century”. The exhibition explores how architecture has to adapt to the growing climate reality of urban flooding. through a series of projects – proposed and realised – by leading architects around the world in the field of flood resilient architecture.

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Sea Change: Flood-Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century

Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century

The Etania Green School is part of the new exhibition “Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century”. The exhibition explores how architecture has to adapt to the growing climate reality of urban flooding. through a series of projects – proposed and realised – by leading architects around the world in the field of flood resilient architecture.

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International Green Award for Etania Green School

On January 8th, 2020, the Etania Green School won the first prize in the sixth Spec Go Green International Awards 2019, a prestigious architectural award for young professionals and students of architecture in Asia encouraging a future of green building and green architecture.

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Bandra Collective wins Mumbai Street Lab Competition

On January 8th, 2020, the Etania Green School won the first prize in the sixth Spec Go Green International Awards 2019, a prestigious architectural award for young professionals and students of architecture in Asia encouraging a future of green building and green architecture.

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Mumbai Artist Retreat - resilient architecture

The Making of the Mumbai Artist Retreat

The Mumbai Artist Retreat that is about to be completed, is poised to become a place, where artists can work in a spacious, natural environment. It allows artists to retreat from and reflect on the heavy physical and psychological demands of the global metropole. The Artist Retreat will function as a community space. It is an art lab of sorts that aims to bring together art, ecology and society.

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Dining room of House built in Nature

Design Duo That Heroes Both Nature And Urban Architecture

Across the globe, architecture has had a ubiquitous and rich history of interacting with its natural surroundings. From the hanging gardens of Babylon to the verandas of colonial-era bungalows, tedious effort and time have been spent crafting designs that best allow a structure to become a part of the landscape it sits upon. Yet, modern trends often show a relatively harsh disconnect between people’s homes and the land that frames them. Architecture BRIO, rather successfully, strives to include nature in their progressive designs. Robert and Shefali manage to not only create domains that appear visually stunning but also draw on the natural benefits of a property. Simply, BRIO’s designs are delineated by playing to a given plot’s strengths.

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Etania Green School featured in Green Building Magazine

Billion Bricks is proud to be featured in the 59th issue of Green Building, Taiwan. In this release, we present the Etania Green School project and display new pictures and insights about the project.
The school building stands on a riverside site that has a history of devastating flooding. Therefore, like much of Borneo’s vernacular architecture, the school is placed on top of decommissioned building containers. This prevents the classrooms from flooding.

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Konchur sustainable model village

Konchur Sustainable Model Village

BillionBricks and Architecture BRIO envision to empower Konchur (Karnataka) to turn into a Sustainable Model Village (Adarsh Gram) for New India by initiating strategic interventions and investments that are self scalable by the community. In the present day scenario, a large number of people are migrating from the village to the nearby cities in search of work, livelihood and a better quality of life. But what if this scenario is reversed in the coming years?

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Mountain Retreat Uttarakhand

With the Himalayan mountain range as a backdrop, construction started on a duo of Mountain Retreats near Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand

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The imperatives of urban planning for Indian cities

Home & Design Trends India discusses with a group of experts the future of Indian Cities in an article called MyView “The imperatives of urban planning for Indian cities”

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Laureus Learning Pavilion Opened

The Laureus Learning Pavilon – part building, part challenge course located at the Magic Bus Centre near Mumbai – was officially opened at an inaugural ceremony on December 1st, 2013.

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reflection on pond with Holiday Homes at Waikiki Wetland Resort, sindhudurg

Architecture BRIO designs Resort with holiday homes

Architecture BRIO has been appointed to design a resort with 16 holiday homes near Navabag Village. The development of this 6 hectares site will include the ecological restoration of an existing lake and the development of 16 holiday homes and a boat house.

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Entrance Pavilion at Sikkim Butterfly Reserve

Himalayan Butterfly Reserve in Sikkim

Humans are deeply interlinked with the life of butterflies. Not only are butterflies indicators of the health of our environment, in many cultures butterflies are associated with the soul. The relation to butterflies goes as far that in the Himalayan region, some of the Nagas of Manipur trace their ancestry from them. Architecture BRIO and fUSE have won the open competition held by the Forest Department of Sikkim to design the Himalayan Butterfly Reserve in Sikkim

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Lecture Architecture BRIO Studio-X

Lecture Architecture BRIO + Lukas Feireiss

Studio Lukas Feireiss presents ‘The Imaginarium’ on display currently at Studio X Mumbai. ‘The Imaginarium’ is devoted to the prescient subject of ecological change and adaptations caused by artificial interventions into existing ecosystems. It catalogues a world in which the sun is setting on our idealistic and preservationist views of the natural world.

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Mid day mumbai feature

Mid-day features Learning Pavilion by Architecture BRIO

Sunday Midday published an article on architects working with communities and NGO’s in India. The article featured projects by ‘Architecture for Humanity’, ‘Scott Gerald Shall’, ‘Vaibhav Kaley’, ‘Sandeep Virmani’, ‘the Cohesion Foundation’, and ‘Architecture BRIO’

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biodiversity training institute Sikkim india

Architecture BRIO and fUSE design Biodiversity Institute

The North Indian state Sikkim, strengthens its approach towards environmental friendly strategies. fUSE Studio and Architecture BRIO have been appointed via an international tender to design the Biodiversity Training Institute of Sikkim.
The building with educational and residential facilities will be characterized by green features that derive from re-using and reinterpretation of local techniques and knowledge.

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World Architecture Awards

Architecture BRIO wins World Architecture Community Awards

Architecture BRIO’s Staff Dormitory for Magic Bus has been selected as a winning entry in the global 20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards. Winners were selected by World Architecture’s Honorary Members, together with twenty other projects from across the world. The aim of the WA Community Awards is to highlight and publish remarkable projects expressing novelty, originality and creativity in design that reflect and inspire a commitment to the art of architecture

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Bamboo dormitory

Inhabitat writes about Bamboo Dormitory

Inhabitat is a authoritative weblog on sustainable design. It is devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.

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Magic Bus Staff Dormitory

A combination of natural and local materials with innovative technologies and materials used in this dormitory for the staff at the Magic Bus Campus portrays a new construction idiom – an expression of contemporary sustainable architecture. A unique structural cage of bamboo columns wraps around the dormitory, creating a dialogue between the interior and the dramatically changing landscape.

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House by a River update

House by a River

The site of this weekend house is steeply sloping with a 1:4 gradient. To the north of the plot runs a river in the east – west direction. The site slopes down towards the river. Taking advantage of the flattened plateau at the highest point of the site the house is positioned such that its roof slab level merges with the level of the plateau. One can therefore walk onto the roof from the top of the land

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