@akdaoffice

Architect. Educator. Urbanist. Making Sustainable Buildings

 New Delhi, India
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Joined November 2011
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Good to be recognised for our design leadership - we are one of the top 25 architecture firms in Delhi archello.com/news/25-best-ar…

25 best architecture firms in Delhi | Archello

With an estimated population of over 28 million, Delhi, together with its surrounding territories, is among the largest metropolitan regions in the world. Th...

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Speaking today at REI Expo on Mainstreaming Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in India: Opportunities and Pathways to Scale
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India's solar journey has largely been driven by utility-scale and rooftop solar. However, rapid urbanisation, rising electricity demand, and limited rooftop availability in dense cities call for new ways to integrate solar into the built environment.
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Building spotting in Delhi
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After exactly a year's work, we are incredibly excited to launch our newest innovation.. Presenting the akdAl Pixel !! Harnessing state of the art technology of GPU's, GUl's, LLM's and AFD's, this Al enabled red pixel doesn't need to be told where to go next.
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Simply tell it what you want to draw, and watch the red pixel transform the grid into a fully resolved drawing. No more making tedious working drawing sets, revisions, coordinating with MEP.. it's all a thing of the past. The Future is Here Today!!
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A taste of Delhi’s open spaces at its urban centre today afternoon while watching the final of the @AdityaBirlaGrp with a lovely speech by @rajnathsingh to wrap up proceedings.
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Well said
edwin heathcote@edwinheathcoteMar 12
ft.com/content/caad5a75-c147… Smiljan Radić is a worthy winner of the Pritzker Prize. But architecture’s highest profile award has problems

Smiljan Radić is a worthy winner of the Pritzker Prize. But architecture’s highest profile award...

With its focus on lone (male) genius, the $100,000 prize has lost touch with the field’s changing landscape

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This is proper architectural prose. Great read.
Will Manidis
@WillManidisFeb 19

Reflections on Oman

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happy valentine's day to the love of my life (dense, mixed-use neighborhoods with multi-family housing)
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I write about India’s construction woes for @dezeen
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@dezeenFeb 4
India is building at an unprecedented scale but its highly fragmented construction industry is struggling to cope, writes Amit Khanna. dezeen.com/2026/02/04/india-…

"For those engaged in the production of India's buildings, it's akin to seeing the warming water...

India is building at an unprecedented scale but its highly fragmented construction industry is struggling to cope, writes Amit Khanna.

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This is our most audacious project yet. 280kw of #BIPV and 180Kw on the roof. The building will produce over 60% of all the energy it needs. For a 75000SF building on a tight urban site (1/2 acre), thats not just better than industry standards, it’s a milestone leap.
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Out to watch a movie with the kids and the the laws of physics were not consulted during the making of the trailer for War
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designboom.com/design/swiss-… via @designboom

brutalism fans rejoice, swiss post just unveiled concrete stamps made with cement pigments

 

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Amit Khanna retweeted
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@kotecinho23 Jun 2025
The Pendentive House New Delhi 🇮🇳
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The buildings that survive are those that no one had the courage to tear down
Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTall10 Feb 2025
The demolition of the UK’s first sterling prize winning building, less than 30 years after its construction The only way to make adaptive reuse mainstream, is to enact the economic levers that make it the best choice for development theguardian.com/artanddesign…

Praised, then razed: why is UK’s best building of 1996 being demolished?

The Centenary Building in Salford was described as ‘dynamic and sophisticated’ when it won the first Stirling prize. Now it is to be knocked down as part of a colossal development

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The Indian government's rushed redevelopment of the Central Vista in New Delhi fails to move on from the colonial history of Edwin Lutyens's original project My piece in @dezeen is here dezeen.com/2024/11/13/new-de…

"As the centre of Delhi is reimagined, it is hard not to see parallels in history"

The redevelopment of the Central Vista in New Delhi fails to move on from the colonial history of Edwin Lutyens's original project, writes Amit Khanna.

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India’s architectural history of the past century is intertwined with architects who had no roots in the subcontinent. I write in the @htTweets about the legacy of Christopher Benninger hindustantimes.com/opinion/a…

A Benninger model in Indian architecture

Benninger influenced the realm of institutional architecture through his ability to integrate modernist principles with the unique traditions of India

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To replace architects with AI, clients will have to accurately describe what they want. We're fine.
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Do we work too hard? Mies had a 4 hour work day and a 6 martini evening
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Good news presented as bad news World faces ‘staggering’ oil glut by end of decade, energy watchdog warns on.ft.com/45njFAj

World faces ‘staggering’ oil glut by end of decade, energy watchdog warns

IEA predicts more than 8mn b/d of excess capacity by 2030 as producers invest in pumping more crude

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