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8 entries, 2025–2026

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8 entries

Rendered street with a frangipani tree in a planted bed, a paved footpath and stone-clad boundary walls with dark slatted gates

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Essay Design visualisation

Better Neighbourhoods Better Homes

We spend so much of our lives trying to build better homes, but rarely ask whether we are building better neighbourhoods. A beautiful house on a terrible street is an incomplete picture of a good life.

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  2. Perspective sketch of a minimalist single-storey building with a flat roof and steps to the entrance, a human silhouette for scale and trees on either side, over perspective grid lines with a green watercolour wash

    Essay Illustration

    Complexities of Minimalism

    Minimalism isn’t about absence-it’s about intentional presence. What began as a quiet rebellion against excess became a discipline of clarity, restraint, and purpose.

  3. A cup of coffee on a small table by a window with lace curtains, in golden evening light, with dried flowers in a vase

    Essay Illustration

    You Are the Occasion

    Stop saving the best for later. Neglecting yourself in the name of practicality isn’t wisdom—it’s self-sabotage. You wear exhaustion like a badge, yet hesitate to value your own comfort, joy, and presence.

  4. Two people seen from behind on a plant-filled city balcony, holding cups and watching the sun set over apartment buildings

    Essay Illustration

    Hustle to Pause

    In a world racing ahead, we hustle from sunrise to midnight, forgetting that the pace we live by is shaped by design.

  5. Pink-plastered row houses with stairs and terraces along a sunlit lane, with residents sitting by a doorway and a cyclist further down

    Essay

    Design for Dignity

    As India urbanises, millions remain without dignified housing. Design for Dignity explores how poor planning, cramped spaces, and one-size-fits-all designs have turned affordable housing into new-age slums.

  6. An old parchment with illegible script, a brass compass and a magnifying glass over a square diagram marked with the cardinal directions

    Essay Illustration

    Finding Vastu

    Vastu isn’t just about room directions or lucky placements—it began as a deep understanding of nature, space, and harmony. Over time, much was lost, reinterpreted, or misused.

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