Dezeen's top 10 Indian architecture projects of 2025
As India continues to cement itself as a hotspot for contemporary architecture, we look back at 10 of the country's most memorable buildings from the past year for Dezeen's Review of 2025.
Raj Sabhagruh, Gujarat, by Serie Architects
A total of 800,000 hand-cut bricks cloak the exterior of this vast Jainism complex, which forms the nucleus of a 100-hectare monastery on a hill in Dharampur.
The bricks, which took two years to position across the building's 36 elevations, are each formed from white marble off-cuts and finished with deliberately textured surfaces to create patterns of light and shadow.
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Rural Library, Maharashtra, by PK_Inception
This 108-square-metre library was created in response to the lack of learning facilities for children and adults in the village of Kochargaon.
It contains a series of reading areas and classrooms framed by large brick arches and organised around an open, brick-paved courtyard. Colourful bookshelves pop against its orange-brown plaster walls.
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Oasis, Gujarat, by Studio Saransh
The self-designed office of Studio Saransh is named Oasis, drawing on its peaceful setting in the quiet suburbs of Ahmedabad.
Its design encourages employees to step outdoors throughout the day, with a central, sunken courtyard at its heart that features a lily pond and is surrounded by a network of open walkways.
According to the architect, visitors to the studio often comment on how "the studio feels more like a retreat than a conventional office".
The Light House, Maharashtra, by SJK Architects
The most popular Indian architecture project featured on Dezeen in 2025 was The Light House, a five-storey, multi-generational home in Nagpur.
It has a stacked form animated by a mix of projecting balconies and wooden shutters that emulate traditional perforated screens.
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Ganga Legeri, West Bengal, by Abin Design Studio
Abin Design Studio elevated this temple above ground to accommodate the tides of the nearby river delta.
It is accessed by a winding pathway that encourages visitors to slow down and is marked from afar by a corbelled brick spire that crowns its pillared hall.
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While many new public buildings were completed in India this year, some architects turned their attention to reviving the country's existing building supply.
Among them was Grounded, which reinvigorated a 160-year-old Portuguese-style house close to the banks of the river Moira in the village of Aldona.
The studio has preserved many original Goan-Portuguese features of the home, named Toybox, while adapting other elements to bring it up to modern-day standards.
Rainbow International School, Andhra Pradesh, by Spacefiction Studio
This school accommodates the growing student population in the small town of Nellore. Its design aims to challenge conventional school layouts and integrates numerous playful features such as staggered courtyards, colourful skylights and bridges.
"The whole design started from the idea that the typical four-walled, constricted classroom format should be rethought and every classroom, irrespective of the floor it is located on, must have access to an open area," its architect Spacefiction Studio told Dezeen.
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Alloa Hills Weekend Home, Gujarat, by Studio Sangath
Pink concrete was used to create Alloa Hills Weekend Home, a sprawling villa in Ahmedabad formed of a series of cubic rooms, gardens and terraces that allow occupants to follow the sun's path.
It was designed by Studio Sangath, the practice led by the granddaughter of Balkrishna Doshi, Khushnu Panthaki Hoof. This year, the studio also extended the late Indian architect's Kanoria Centre for Arts and completed his last-ever building – the Doshi Retreat at Vitra Campus in Germany.
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Sanctum of Trees, Tamil Nadu, by 182 Design
A human heart was the design reference for this memorial, designed as a space for reflection in a forest near the city of Erode.
Its inconspicuous stone walls open into an unexpectedly dark interior, which is lined with red concrete and provides access to a central courtyard with an Adansonia digitata tree – a species referred to as the "tree of life".
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Forest of Peace, Gujarat, by Raasa
Rasa created this ashram to formalise a community-built complex on the site in Nardipur.
Curved openings and niches for birds can be found throughout, which take visual cues from an arched flower trellis built by the community to frame the route into the site.
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