AKDA is a multi-disciplinary design studio with expertise in handling architecture,interiors, furniture & products.
Today, 480 years ago, the Mughal Emperor, Akbar was born. His reign changed India, and the world - a model of tolerance, inclusion and governance. And of course, he gave us Fatehpur Sikri, that most wonderful and tragic example of fort architecture
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Oct 25, 2022
Fortunate to have lived alongside the Tendulkar / Federer era of men who were tremendous athletes with extraordinary talent, but also gracious and humble gentlemen. Much to be learnt https://t.co/gY2cyd1e1x
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Sep 24, 2022
This Oxford Uni paper has concluded that even without accounting for climate damages or climate policy co-benefits, transitioning to a net-zero energy system by 2050 is likely to be economically beneficial. https://t.co/BoUmYe4nja
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Sep 15, 2022
Upload your monumental photos to Wikipedia Commons and do your bit https://t.co/kF2lafWMxf
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Sep 12, 2022
This is an outstanding piece of architectural criticism https://t.co/B9a4Mzxo9s
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Sep 5, 2022
Our office trying to get the client to finalize the cabinetry colours https://t.co/gnpqxvOE0G
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jul 12, 2022
A great light has gone out https://t.co/SjF3p0wh4y
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jul 4, 2022
The world’s biggest carbon-sucking machine is switching on in Iceland https://t.co/LEhwfPPnKe via @wef
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jul 3, 2022
Buildings need to embody the Vitruvian trio - firmness, utility, delight (fermetas-utilitas -venustas). You can mess up on delight once in a while and get away with it, but not with firmness. That stuff is non-negotiable. It's what we lose sleep over, where our expertise counts.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
The design and construction of buildings is a huge responsibility. Some where out there is an obscure statistic about the number of lives saved by earthquake codes designed by building engineers. It's literally in the hundreds of millions.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
It's the knowing that bakers have when baking their fifty thousandth loaf of bread. You just, sort of know what's going to happen.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
And having made mistakes and suffered the consequences, and thinking you figured it out, and then making some more mistakes, and after what seems forever, you just know.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
The source of that knowledge is having encountered the same problem over and over again - in multiple ways, in multiple places, in different weather, with different teams, etc.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
For anyone deep enough in their profession, there is a kind of knowledge that you know intimately. It is not a list of methods, or a sense about what is trending or what something costs. It is innate, like knowing your own name.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
Grab a cup of coffee. In the shadow of Pallonji Mistry's death, a giant amongst those of us who construct buildings for love and for a living, I want to talk to you about the value of knowledge.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jun 30, 2022
Overall concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have surged, contributing to global warming of around 1.1C, compared with pre-industrial times. Climate graphic of the week: Record carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists via @FT https://t.co/X8h7ovOrvU
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) May 14, 2022
This is what climate change actually looks like - one house at a time, one species at a time. We are the frogs sitting in boiling water and still wondering whether we should panic #DantesPeakQuote #LifeIsNotLikeDantesPeak https://t.co/B3u5uaZDNe
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) May 13, 2022
The world is increasingly likely to experience global warming of 1.5C within the next five years because of record greenhouse gas levels. World on course to breach global 1.5C warming threshold within five years via @FT https://t.co/eLdQuUbSe7
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) May 11, 2022
The first thing you have to understand is that this isn’t housing. It isn’t serving any social purpose. It’s a luxury good, more like a land-bound yacht.” Too rich and too thin? Manhattan’s newest ‘skinnyscraper’ via @FT & @edwinheathcote https://t.co/aT8W3QTFMr
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) May 7, 2022
Life begins at 40? No, that’s just denial via @FT It probably should have gone out of fashion with John Lennon, who wrote a song called “Life Begins at 40” but never recorded it because he was shot two months after his 40th birthday. https://t.co/DVRltPThZo
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) May 7, 2022
5 Key Facts About Climate Change: 1. It’s warming. 2. It’s us. 3. We’re sure. 4. It’s bad. 5. We can fix it. #climatechange #climateactionnow
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Apr 30, 2022
In the future, we shouldn’t have to call anyone a female designer - because designers are male and female and that’s that. If anything, I look forward to an architectural milieu that isn’t exclusively influenced by a small group of white male architects from the nineteen fifties
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Apr 14, 2022
Bio Hacking - Exercise caution The secret to making your brain work better via @FT https://t.co/PK1BF6NFwp
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 31, 2022
Could a carbon-loving super-crop be the solution to sustainable living? via @FT https://t.co/mC6FBXJfki
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 28, 2022
Time to retire my collection of beige trousers? Can interior designers turn their sartorial style into a business asset - How interior designers dress to impress via @FT https://t.co/Itkt6g9lz4
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 28, 2022
“Our carbon emissions will have an impact in Antarctica, and Antarctica will come back to bite the rest of the world’s coastlines and it may happen faster than we think.” Satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica https://t.co/ozISvQcWcc
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 26, 2022
Good to be recognised for our design leadership - we are one of the top 25 architecture firms in Delhi https://t.co/pnXz6mPPnf
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 25, 2022
“That is what resonates with so many people, and what is nice is that the more humane a building is, the more successful it is.” Frank Gehry: ‘The more humane a building, the better’ via @FT https://t.co/NMfe9gaUVy
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 24, 2022
“We want to present the value of Modernist architecture to people who are not architects or experts” From Bauhaus to Kaunas: Lithuania’s hidden Modernist architecture via @FT https://t.co/GpnsFcFjQE
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 19, 2022
What is the true value of a tree? via @FT https://t.co/TOyasTZUoG
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 11, 2022
Architecture needs more women to design buildings and commission them — and not just for reasons of fairness. There is broad evidence that teams with stronger gender and ethnic diversity are better at creative solutions via @FT https://t.co/Gqhg6bW3wU
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 9, 2022
Mild sense of commuter rage & bemusement as people elbow, push & fall over themselves to get through the fairly simple process of airport security. https://t.co/cTEXTkjsQH
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 3, 2022
Wordle 257 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It’s impossible till it’s obvious
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 2, 2022
Wordle 256 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 2, 2022
A new report released this week by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looks at the causes, impacts and solutions to climate change Climate change: Five things we've learned from the IPCC report https://t.co/zOIOUOLYRe
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 1, 2022
nerdlegame 41 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟪🟩⬛🟪 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/3oKAEzb3ag #nerdle
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Mar 1, 2022
Wordle 253 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 27, 2022
Wordle 252 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 26, 2022
Wordle 251 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Having used up nearly all of the alphabet and staring into the abyss, it finally dawned on me
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 25, 2022
Wordle 250 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 24, 2022
Wordle 249 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 23, 2022
Wordle 248 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 22, 2022
Wordle 247 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 20, 2022
Wordle 246 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 19, 2022
nerdlegame 30 3/6 ⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Some will say it’s luck
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 18, 2022
Wordle 244 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This is why we all love it. for the eureka moment!
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 18, 2022
Wordle 242 6/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 16, 2022
Wordle 241 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Did it early today
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 14, 2022
Wordle 239 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 14, 2022
Wordle 237 6/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It’s been close this last couple of times
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 11, 2022
Wordle 236 6/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Phew
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 9, 2022
Wordle 235 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just when all hope was lost
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 9, 2022
With much of the planet already "used-up", the world has hard choices to make over how to use land in the most sustainable and effective way. https://t.co/JFPoyIaqdR
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 8, 2022
Wordle 233 3/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 7, 2022
Wordle 232 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 6, 2022
Wordle 231 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 5, 2022
Wordle 230 3/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 4, 2022
Wordle 229 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 What was fun today was the recognition that the pattern exists in only a handful of words.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 3, 2022
Wordle 228 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Feb 2, 2022
Safdarjang Residence has been nominated as Building of the Year. Vote for us. https://t.co/3zVT6TqrQz
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 29, 2022
Wordle 225 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A bad guess, then a worse one. Then a slightly good one and it was obvious
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 29, 2022
Wordle 224 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Painless & Tidy
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 29, 2022
Wordle 223 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 28, 2022
Safdarjang Residence has been nominated for Archdaily’s Building of the Year. Do click on the link and vote for us. https://t.co/3zVT6TqrQz
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 26, 2022
Wordle 218 2/6 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://t.co/4eYBFtmeiA
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 23, 2022
Wordle 216 4/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 21, 2022
Wordle 214 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 19, 2022
Safdarjang Residence New Delhi https://t.co/D7o9r7dro8 https://t.co/uyox4NOV17
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 18, 2022
Wordle 213 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Aargh!!
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 18, 2022
Wordle 211 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 16, 2022
Wordle 210 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 15, 2022
Wordle 209 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) Jan 14, 2022
