Master Piece- Bridge

This bridge is half under the water, for ships to pass and then again, it comes out on the other side.





Truly a marvelous piece of engineering!





This bridge is between Sweden and Denmark.

Lavasa Hill Station, Mose Valley, Pune, India

Built around a lake, Lavasa is a lifestyle development and India's first post-independence "hill station," or second-home community. Lavasa is poised to be a world-class urban and economic center built in an area of 8,000 acres / 3,240 ha.



The development defines a new way to support human habitation while preserving and improving India's important natural ecosystems. The intent is to provide a new sustainable community, both in its relationship to the environment and in how people live, learn, work and play. Combining longstanding patterns of historic Indian development with vernacular building forms, the plan preserves open spaces while establishing a dozen compact, walk-able villages along the lake.

Oberoi Tower, Mumbai, India,

This 28-story tower is a part of a master-planned area that includes office space, hotel, retail and residential towers in a 175,000 sq. ft. / 16,260 sq. m. of area.

The top four levels house the headquarters of the Oberoi Development Company, with the rest of the tower available for lease. The tower is oriented with its broad facades facing north and south to maximize solar control. The southern exposure incorporates horizontal sunscreens for sun protection. The building's gentle, sweeping curved form presents a landmark image to the major north-south Mumbai highway.

Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India

The master planning and design for this world-class, high-tech terminal for India's second-busiest airport is built on a 2.7 million sq. ft. / 250,000 sq. m. This international terminal will add more than double the airport's current passenger capacity. Passengers will experience a terminal that maximizes the use of natural light, giving a feeling of openness.



The arrivals experience, especially, has been designed to provide a memorable welcome to India. The new terminal will open in time to accommodate the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India. The team designed 1.3 million sq. ft. of renovation projects to refurbish and extend existing terminals. The concept design also includes a multi-story car park and an airport village commercial center.

Brigade Gateway

Brigade Gateway is a high-quality mixed-use planned community conceived and designed to provide a vital mixed-use urban center for Bangalore's emerging economy. The development is located on a former brownfield site in the Rajaji Nagar District. The plan creates a mixed-use enclave with residences for more than 10,000 people, more than one million square feet of office space, a 660,000-sq.-ft. retail and entertainment complex, a 200-room boutique hotel, a software facility, a private elementary school, a hospital and a club. The site offers excellent road and rail connections to Bangalore's Central Business District.

Estra IT Park and SEZ Master Plan

The plan for the 4 million-sq.-ft. development includes four IT office buildings, a 150-room hotel with conference center and penthouse executive club, and a central food court. A two-level underground parking podium and 11-level garage accommodates 7,800 cars and 60 buses.



The site is adjacent to the Chennai Express Highway, connecting the project to the Chennai City Center and the Chennai International Airport. The plan orients the IT buildings toward the highway and breaks up the main facade with the hotel and conference center. The parking garage behind this facade encloses the space and creates a central boulevard.

Architectural Quotes

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” - Philip Johnson



"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth." - Louis Kahn



"To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be." - Le Corbusier



"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union." - Frank Lloyd Wright



"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." - Frank Gehry



"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things... ...but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street." - Alvar Aalto



"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." - Le Corbusier

CPH Arch, 3XN

"The towers and the bridge constitute one single, floating dynamic movement, characterized by the bold span across the harbor entrance in terms of both the plan design and the facade. Establishing a connection across the harbor radically improves public access and creates brand new opportunities for life and growth in the area."