The travails of selling real estate came home to us forcefully in the last few months. We are rather happily engaged with designing and monitoring the construction of an office building in Baroda that we in the office called “ The Alchemists Abode” the name referring to the clients metallurgical business interests. The building is now formally called “ Ark”, in reference to a space where ideas will be safe and nurtured, and the idea of life will live. Parts of the project have been inspired by Paul Klees, 1929 painting “Uncomposed Objects in Space” ( above) The atrium inspired by Klee. The building uses the premise of using the idea of a tense chaos and suspended imbalance and yet denoting a stillness, as an allegorical reference to life…
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