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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 02:52 AM | January 22,2009
Spaces that break hierarchies and reflect what the company stands for, as well as its aspirations for growth and change. These factors influenced the design for this corporate office in Mumbai
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 11:26 PM | November 09,2008
It was an unusual and challenging brief: to design low-cost, easy-to-construct, earthquake-resistant, multi-purpose temporary shelters from locally available materials, to serve as administrative offices in Kutch. Ahmedabad-based Kartikeya Shodhan Associates’ response challenged perceptions of the modern-day workplace. These structures are still in use, seven years later.
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 12:30 AM | October 23,2008
One can avoid bruised egos and bite-sized cubicles, though, when moving to a smaller workplace
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 11:08 PM | October 12,2008
When a company has clarity on its brand and corporate values, office design can be a highly effective tool to reinforce and build a related corporate culture. These two offices in Bangalore were designed by Khosla Associates for Nike and Indya.com. They are showcases for the use of colour, graphics and signage in reinforcing the organization’s image for employees and visitors alike
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 12:04 AM | September 25,2008
Putting together a workplace that communicates an organization’s corporate mission is a challenging task--yet surprisingly often left to non-professionals
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 10:16 PM | September 14,2008
Business of Life starts a monthly series on the many facets of office design. Here we feature two offices, one in Mumbai and the other in Chennai, which could be inspirations for a makeover of the many abandoned factories in our metros.
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Aparna Piramal Raje and Radhika Desai 02:24 AM | August 28,2008
The “open office”, with its mass of workstations divided by partitions, is becoming the preferred solution to finding a balance between transparency and anonymity
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12:36 AM | August 28,2008
Francis Duffy highlights the connections between office design and management thinking in an era of technological and cultural shifts
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