The Design Impact Honour 2025 — India: Celebrating Thoughtful Living and Transformative Craft in Modern Indian Homes

These Design Impact Honour recipients reveal a new Indian modernity shaped by craft, context, and spatial intelligence. Across two distinct contexts, Alkove-Design’s merged apartment in Pune and Studio Yamini’s multi-level penthouse in Vadodara reveal a shared design philosophy: a pursuit of modern Indian living rooted in spatial sensitivity, material honesty, and emotional intelligence. Both projects elevate everyday domesticity by treating space as an evolving narrative—where architectural challenges become opportunities and where craft anchors contemporary expression. Three aspects make these works particularly deserving of the Design Impact Honour 2025. First, each project demonstrates sophisticated spatial resolution. Whether stitching two apartments into […]