India

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Artificial intelligenceIndiaDesign for disassemblyHospitalityBrand identity

Designed to come off: the hotel façade with a twenty-year life

Vibhakar Jha, Shubham Solanki, Sushant Verma & Harsh Thapar

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Value engineeringClimate-responsive designIndiaGlazingAir quality

What a city hands a façade when it hands it every variable at once

Gautam Bhasin, Harsh Varshneya, Bhavin Mehta, Nazia Iqbal & Rakesh Thakur

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India High-riseFire safetyIndiaRainscreenSintered stone

Sintered, not tiled: what a high-rise asks of a ceramic panel

TS Aditya

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Laminated glassIndiaInterlayersStructural glazingMaterial authentication

Coupling, not thickness: what actually sets a laminate's deflection

Allan Gibson

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India RefurbishmentIndiaDurabilityStructural siliconeCold bending

Ninety per cent at twenty-five years: what an old seal is worth

Ravishankar Subramanian

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India IndiaMixed useContextBrickworkArchitectural expression

Brickwork stitched into the wall rather than hung on it as cladding

Swati Agarwal

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Structural glassIndiaRetail designStaircasesGlass engineering

Glass asked to carry the load rather than fill the opening in it

Sushant Goel

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Parametric designFaçade maintenanceIndiaDigital fabricationPhotovoltaics

A century of standing still: what is finally moving in façades

Mathieu Meur

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Embodied carbonIndiaCurtain wallingWind loadWindow hardware

Innovation on demand: what a project extracts from its supplier

Raghunandan Reddy

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Solar shadingIndiaMixed useCurtain wallingRetail design

Where a Noida block keeps its rectangle and spends its curves

Nisar Ahmed Shaikh

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Embodied carbonFire safetyIndiaCladdingProduct certification

A panel maker's argument for a floor stricter than the code itself

Uday V Shetty

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Fire safetyIndiaCladdingBuilding codesCompartmentation

NBCS 2026: why a compliant material is not a compliant façade

Sajid Raza

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Structural glassIndiaTension structuresGlass installationConvention centres

Yashobhoomi: the transom that never ends and a 550-kilo pane

Rohan Keswani

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Parametric designIndiaDigital toolsFaçade accessBuilding maintenance

Hierarchy first: turning façade data into a decision worth acting on

Ritesh Jindal

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Fire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladdingRainscreen

What Delhi's temperature swing asks of a laminate cladding panel

Ashwanii Khanna

ZWOF New Delhi 2026 India Green façadesBiophilic designIndiaHigh-rise residentialRegenerative architecture

Buildings that behave like a forest rather than look like one

Vishal Sharma

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityFenestrationThermal breakEnergy efficiency

Where the heat gets in: the thermal break, now required by code

Abhishek Shukla

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India High-riseFire safetyIndiaRainscreenSintered stone

The tested skin: sustainable cladding for high-rise buildings

TS Aditya

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Fire safetyIndiaSustainabilityInsulationPassive fire protection

System, not product: what actually gives a façade its fire rating

G Subham

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Curtain wallIndiaSustainabilityAluminium systemsHospitality

The strategic envelope: bespoke engineering, transomless glass and green aluminium

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Unitised façadesCurtain wallIndiaPrefabricationDouble-skin façades

Scaling smart skins: jumbo panels, a cantilevered glass box, and stone on a unitised wall

Rohan Keswani

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Façade engineeringCurved glassArchitectureIndiaAcoustics

Precision by design: keeping faith with the render, all the way to site

Yogesh Tantia

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityACPMetal claddingStandards & compliance

Metal cladding, held to account: speed, standards and the EPD

Uday V Shetty

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Green façadesBiophilic designIndiaSustainabilityKeynote

The living façade: when a building’s skin becomes a threshold, not a boundary

James Tan

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India WorkplaceArchitectureIndiaHuman experienceGCC

Experience is everything: designing the workplace from the inside out

Naseera Razak & Aditya Goel

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India ArchitectureBiophilic designIndiaSustainabilityEcological design

Inside out: dissolving the line between building, landscape and life

Dhurgai Kumaran

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India ResidentialMaterialsValue engineeringArchitectureIndia

The face of the building: visual impact and climate, on a realistic budget

Prashanth S Kharche

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India IndiaEngineeringCollaborationChennaiDelivery

From concept to delivery: closing the gap between the drawing and the building

Shrikrishna Ginde, Sruthi Reddy, R. Vijayan, Ajay Sethi, Rohit Sharma & Pratik Doshi

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Value engineeringIndiaCladdingFaçade consultingCost & delivery

Engineering value, not cost: halving a façade’s price without losing its face

Nandakumar BS

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India PerformanceIndiaDesignClimateChennai

When design decides performance: orientation, climate and the façade as a first move

Subbiah Sivasubramaniam, Suraksha Acharya, Gurunathan Ramakrishnan, Prasana Kesavan, Kosalraman CJ & Shripal Munshi

ZWOF Chennai 2026 India Façade engineeringFire safetyCurtain wallIndiaBuilding codes

Beyond compliance: what a fire really asks of a high-rise façade

KR Suresh

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaBuilding movementCold-bent glazingUnitised systemsMuseum architecture

The International Co-operative Museum: cold-bent glazing, one degree a floor

Vicky Vora

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaSintered stoneDry claddingVentilated façadeHigh-rise cladding

Ventilated dry cladding and sintered-stone systems for high-rise applications

TS Aditya

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India MaintenanceIndiaPerformance mock-upClimate responseGIFT City

Ahmedabad's tall buildings answer to a glass limit nobody enforces

Mitul Gajjar, Namrata Vaja, Ingit Anand, Pratik Doshi & Vinod Patel

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India BIMIndiaUnitised curtain wallIntegrated sunshadesMixed-material façades

Scaling smart skins: unitised systems with integrated shading and mixed materials

Rohan Keswani

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India High-riseIndiaClimate responseDesign thinkingFaçade evolution

Four decades of evolving façade design thinking

Reza Kabul

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India High-rise façadesIndiaUnitised curtain wallGIFT CityForm development

Designing high-rise façades across a portfolio from 45 to 153 metres

Brijesh Shah & Nitesh Shah

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaHigh-rise specificationsPerformance testingFabricator qualityFire compliance

Ahmedabad and GIFT City: wind, fire and the fabricator you pick

Mitul Gajjar

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India Laminated glassIndiaStructural interlayersSentryGlasTrosifol

Structural interlayers and sustainability advances in laminated glass

Malvinder Singh Rooprai

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaMaterial craftCast metalPerforated screensOpen-joint façades

Timeless façades through organic surfaces, crafted patterns and open-joint detailing

KR Suresh

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaSustainabilityFaçade systemsIntegrationSafety

Integration, safety and sustainability in contemporary façade systems

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India DaylightIndiaPerformance glazingShading devicesDouble-skin façade

From carved stone jalis to performance glass: shading devices in Indian façades

Vrutul Panchal

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India BIMParametric designMaintenanceIndiaDigital tools

From wooden templates to a 3D model: where the gains stop

Bhrugu Gangadia, Manoj Joshi, Chirayu Oza, Upendra Walinjkar & Bhaumik Patel

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India IndiaDurabilitySustainabilityPowder coatingCorrosion protection

Coating durability as the sustainability case for powder-coated façades

Deepak Parameswaran

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India BIMIndiaTensile membrane shadingPerformance glazingStone cladding

Treating the façade as a collaborative, detail-driven layer at ONE42

Raman Aras

ZWOF Ahmedabad 2026 India Double skinFire classificationClass A2IndiaRear-ventilated façades

Cladding on a high-rise: Class B crosses ignition, stops short of flashover

Ashwanii Khanna

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade engineeringProjectsIndiaCostZWOF Mum 25

Bridging vision and reality: the façade of Brigade Gateway Neopolis

Vrinda Shetty & Rajan Govind

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India RetrofitIndiaCircularityStructural glazingSilicone sealants

Five decades of structural silicone, and the widening job list for façade sealants

Ravishankar Subramanian

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Fire safetyIndiaFaçade regulationPassive fire protectionPerimeter barriers

Building for safety: why compliant intent arrives as a painted sheet

Gautam Bhasin, Santosh S. Warick, Alok Decruz, Nandita Agnihotri, Apurba Maity & Vicky Vora

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Solar shadingBiophilic designIndiaArt decoStone façades

Addition and subtraction: two façade strategies for the same Worli street

Mahyar Vaid

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Embodied carbonFaçade integrationIndiaUnitised systemsSmart façades

Integration, safety and carbon: three pressures reshaping the façade envelope

Harsharaj Shetty K S

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Fire safetyIndiaCladdingSintered stoneTesting standards

Fire class and UV grading decide whether a cladding panel belongs on a tall building

TS Aditya

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Embodied carbonLaminated glassMaterial traceabilityIndiaBalustrades

Why the choice of interlayer decides how far structural glass can go

Jennifer Schneider

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade engineeringIndiaAirportsDaylightingRoof systems

Simple systems, concentrated complexity: the envelope logic behind the Navi Mumbai terminal

Ashwin Shah

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade engineeringComputational designAutomationIndiaPanel rationalisation

Panel rationalisation, option-hunting and digital maintenance planning: automation as façade practice

Ritesh Jindal

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade designTerracottaIndiaCurtain wallingMixed-use development

Letting the massing settle the façade, and designing the rest around people

Andy Fisher

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Façade maintenanceQuality controlIndiaUnitised curtain wallingFire regulations

How a fire-brigade rule and an airport height limit shaped one Mumbai façade

KR Suresh, Shekhar Patki, Pratik Doshi & Prashant Pant

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Curved glassIndiaNatural ventilationUnitised curtain wallingHigh-rise residential

Unitised glazing is being pushed to hide its frames and open up tall homes

Rohan Keswani

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India Wind engineeringHigh-rise façadesFaçade maintenanceIndiaBIPV

Aerodynamic shaping, material choice and maintenance decide how a high-rise façade performs

Timothy Soebroto

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India High-riseRetrofitFaçade designComplex geometryIndia

Adaptive design, inside-out planning and buildable geometry: three towers designed to be delivered

Jose Claudio Silva

ZWOF Mumbai 2025 India High-riseFire safetySolar shadingIndiaCladding

Double-skin shading and fire behaviour: two demands on high-rise cladding

Ashwanii Khanna