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Designing of Resort   is one of the most popular Thesis topic in Architecture. Students get full freedom to let their design beast come out.  You don't have to worry about the budget at all, as the first requirement for designing a Resort is to provide luxury and comfort to the occupants.  Before selecting Resort as your Thesis topic you must consider the climate. Resort is basically categorized by the surrounding, local climate and culture.  For example, a beach resort and a desert resort are two totally different topics and must not be mixed.  Different types of Resorts are- Beach Resort Desert Resort Mountain Resort Spa Resort Pet-friendly Resort Lake Resort Golf Resort Island Resort

One of the prime infrastructural projects in New Delhi, the new TERMINAL 3 (T3) at the INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL (IGI) AIRPORT is designed with many unique landscape features. Odyssey was awarded the Hardscape and Water Features work for this iconic project. HARDSCAPE The Scope of Work under Hardscape included 858 Movable Planter Boxes, 750 RMT of Fixed Planters in Steel Grey Granite, a Landscape Deck and Planter Benches. The Movable Planter Boxes are completely self-sufficient and drip-free, equipped with a HDPE tray, Pond Liner and a slotted Galvanized Mild Steel (GMS) Framework. The GMS framework was clad with Steel Grey Granite, Sapphire Brown Granite and Tan Brown Granite. The slotted framework enabled flexibility with the height of the plants and planters placed inside the boxes by moving the HDPE trays up or down. The Pond Liner ensured that the water and mud does not drip out onto the floor. Each planter box weighs between 120 and 450 KGs and can be moved easily with

Home Buyers are certainly waiting for GST rollout from July 1. Experts believe that buyers will benefit if they buy houses in projects launched post July 1. It will be so even after a rise in service tax of 4.5% to GST of 12%. This is because a number of hidden and cascading will be removed under GST. Developers will also get several tax credits under GST. But these tax credits will not be applicable to projects that are under-construction, nearing completion or ones that are ready. “The heavily taxed real estate sector welcomes a single stable 12% GST rate, inclusive of the value of land and with full input tax credits,” said Rajeev Talwar, CEO, DLF and chairman of National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO). Source - Hindustan Times Government has also proposed anti-profiteering measures to which will pass on tax credit benefits to consumers.

IIT Kharagpur believes that the ancient Indian architecture philosophy of Vastu Shastra must be taught to architecture students to make them more "well-rounded." The institute recently conducted a workshop on the subject and plans to include an introductory course for first and second year undergraduate students, and a more exhaustive course for post-graduate and research students. IIT faculty members say that there is no reason why Indian architecture students shouldn't know ancient Indian architectural traditions, and believe that Vastu concepts aren't religious and are instead based on science. Vastu principles can be traced back to the Vedic period, say historians. "Times are changing and across the globe there is a renewed interest in ancient Indian knowledge. So, it is natural that we will tweak our syllabus to include Vastu in architecture and infrastructure classes," Joy Sen, a faculty member of the architecture department, told TOI. Source : huf

So what do you do when the penthouse atop the 15 story building you're renovating has a small unused space that was originally constructed as a shaft for a second elevator? Well, if you're the architects at Hernandez Silva, you turn it into a glass-floored bathroom that would give professional Hollywood stuntpersons second thoughts about using. While the floor is presumably thick enough to support even the heaviest of patrons, it looks like it's been further reinforced with metal crossbeams. Or at the least, they're there to give the illusion it's been strengthened. But we think we'll just hold it till we get home, thanks.

The NDA government is set shift Architecture education from Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s purview to the Urban Development Ministry. HRD Ministry had already opposed the proposal in a meeting held at the Cabinet Secretariat last month. The move was communicated by the Cabinet Secretary’s office to the two ministries. The change will be formally notified through an amendment to the Allocation of Business Rules 1961, which enlists responsibilities of each ministry under the Union government. The Architects Act, 1972 under the Department Of Higher Education in the AOB rules will be deleted through a gazette notification, sources said. This law provides for registration of architects, maintaining standards of architectural education, recognition of qualifications and standards of practice to be complied with by practising architects. With the transfer of the Architects Act, HRD Ministry will no longer be in-charge of regulating architectural education through the Coun

The design proposal for Amazon’s newest building will be presented at a Downtown Design Review meeting. The , April 4, the design proposal for Amazon’s newest building is scheduled to be presented at a Downtown Design Review meeting. The 17-story, 405,000-sf building , which is being designed by Graphite Design Group, will sit at the site of a former hotel at 2205 Seventh Avenue in Seattle. According to Curbed Seattle, documents submitted by the architect for review give three options for building massing, with one of those options being preferred over the rest. The preferred option has a recessed center bay that shows the building’s internal stair structure. On either side of the recessed bay are stacked, protruding slabs of floors that zigzag their way up the building. The documents refer to this design as an ‘urban treehouse.” Other building massing options include a version that again utilizes a recessed bay to show the internal stair structure, but instead of creat