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✦“The plinth is not optional in India — it lifts the building clear of monsoon and termites.”
Principle of the day
Arup Associates · 2001
Ladakh · India
High-altitude sustainability — solar orientation, Trombe walls and ventilated dry-toilets at 3,500 m.
Look at this today: How orientation, thermal mass and a Trombe wall heat a school in a cold desert without fuel.
Read moreThe threshold — verandah, otla, foyer — mediates public and private. Design it deliberately, never by default.
Zaha Hadid Architects drops its founder's name to become ZHA — a global lesson in succession, brand and who owns a practice's name — while at home the shift to NBCS 2026 keeps rolling out state by state.
Policy & Schemes
PM Surya Ghar past 40 lakh households — rooftop solar now a standing design assumption
Deadlines & Dates
NBCS 2026 (SP 7:2026) state adoption — keep watching your own state, there is no single national switch-on
One Thing to Read
Zaha Hadid Architects rebrands as ZHA, dropping its founder's name
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Open the full boardWhat the building costs this season.
Indicative national bands for the materials that move a budget — cement, reinforcement steel, sand, aggregate, brick, AAC, ready-mix and aluminium — each with the direction of travel and a live-check link. Plus a metro cost factor to sanity-check a number before you quote.
Indicative · reviewed June 2026 · verify the live local rate.
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