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Published in WFM, July–August 2026 — Façade Design.

"Designing Façades for 50°C Summers, Dust Storms and Monsoon Cycles in North India" — written by Ar. Badrinath Kaleru and Ar. Prerna Kaleru for WFM.

The question most façades are never asked: what will this look like after five summers, three monsoons and countless dust storms? Orientation before material. Shade before cladding. Cleaner geometry, so rain does the cleaning. Jaali, rebuilt for today in precision-cut metal and engineered porcelain — filtering light, moving air, buffering dust, the way it always did.

Maintenance is not decided after handover. It is decided at detailing.

Grateful to WFM for the platform.

A façade earns its beauty in the tenth year, not the first.

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Featured in Urban Mélange — September 2026, Women Who Lead.

"Designing Beyond the Ordinary" — a conversation on sixteen years of practice at Studio Ardete: on conviction, on choosing the unconventional path, and on why staying close to the details has never been separate from leading.

Grateful to Urban Mélange for the space, and to every client who let us build something unfamiliar.

Conviction, empathy, vision — in that order.

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— Ar. Prerna Kaleru, Co-founder, Studio Ardete

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Edumont World School, Malerkotla — featured in Surfaces Reporter, July 2026, under Fascinating Façade.

25,103 sqft set back from the highway, where the administration block becomes the landmark. A north-facing glazed face pulls in daylight; a perforated brick jaali holds it back. White and grey kept quiet so that orange could be loud in exactly two places.

The jaali does what jaalis have always done here — filters light, filters heat, filters sound — only now it sits inside a sculptural, angular frame.

Grateful to Surfaces Reporter for the coverage.

Ar. Badrinath Kaleru and Ar. Prerna Kaleru, Studio Ardete.

Brick learns geometry without forgetting where it came from.

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Built by us. Run by them.

We were asked for a play area. We drew a town instead.

A flower shop that opens before the garage. A fuel station with a queue of one. A marquee that glows for no particular reason, which is the best reason. Real kerbs, real crossings, a stop sign that children actually stop at — because the moment you scale something down, you have to be twice as honest about it.

Warm plaster. Solid oak. Canvas heavy enough to sag. Glass that catches the afternoon. The same material discipline we'd bring to any street, just measured to three feet.

That's the part we care about. Not the theme — the craft underneath it. A space works when nobody has to explain it, and children are the most unforgiving audience there is.

Design, detailing & visualisation — in-house.

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Studio Ardete
Ar. Badrinath Kaleru & Ar. Prerna Kaleru
Architecture · Interiors · Chandigarh
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Introducing a 2,00,000 sft retail & cinema destination rising across 2.5 acres in the heart of Madhya Pradesh.

This isn’t just a building. It’s a catalyst.
A fluid white mass that breaks from the ordinary — the facade breathes with parametric curved geometry, its roofline sweeping like a continuous wave frozen in concrete. The upper cinema volume is wrapped in a perforated bronze-gold screen panel, glowing from within at dusk like a lantern set against the skyline.
Full-height glazing at street level dissolves the boundary between inside and outside — retail becomes spectacle. The arched underbelly connecting both volumes creates a covered civic threshold — an invitation, not just an entrance.
Chhatarpur has never seen this scale of architectural ambition. This project is designed to redefine the city’s commercial gravity — drawing national and international brands to a market long waiting to be unlocked.
A new centre. A new energy.
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📐 Built-up Area: 2,00,000 sft
🏙️ Plot Area: 2.5 Acres
🎬 Retail + Cinema | Mixed Use
📍,Madhya Pradesh
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Where the arches begin — 11 acres of open-air retail in Punjab, built around shade, water, and the walk between them.

We began with a single move: an arcade. A rhythm of brick-lined arches in ivory stucco that turns retail frontage into shade, and shade into an invitation to linger. Repeated, the arch stops being an opening and becomes a language — carried across the promenade, folded into the cinema block, echoed in the steel ribbon pavilions that mark the plaza.

At the centre, an elliptical water court cuts into the ground plane. A weathered steel monolith stands within it, hollowed, catching the last of the western light. Around it, patterned stone radiates outward in concentric bands — a paving that draws the crowd inward before the shopfronts ever do.

The cinema arrives as a counterpoint: a dark mass gridded in burnt-orange, glowing at dusk. The tower holds the skyline. The terraces hold the green.

Retail here is the excuse. The public realm is the project.

#Highstreet #RetailArchitecture #ArchitectureIndia #PublicRealm #UrbanDesign

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Where the arches begin — 11 acres of open-air retail in Punjab, built around shade, water, and the walk between them.

We began with a single move: an arcade. A rhythm of brick-lined arches in ivory stucco that turns retail frontage into shade, and shade into an invitation to linger. Repeated, the arch stops being an opening and becomes a language — carried across the promenade, folded into the cinema block, echoed in the steel ribbon pavilions that mark the plaza.

At the centre, an elliptical water court cuts into the ground plane. A weathered steel monolith stands within it, hollowed, catching the last of the western light. Around it, patterned stone radiates outward in concentric bands — a paving that draws the crowd inward before the shopfronts ever do.

The cinema arrives as a counterpoint: a dark mass gridded in burnt-orange, glowing at dusk. The tower holds the skyline. The terraces hold the green.

Retail here is the excuse. The public realm is the project.

#Highstreet #RetailArchitecture #ArchitectureIndia #PublicRealm #UrbanDesign

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A celebration of faith, gratitude, light, and togetherness. As the Studio Ardete family came together for aarti, the studio was filled with warmth, devotion, and a sense of shared joy that went far beyond the everyday rhythm of work and design.

These moments remind us that a studio is more than a place where ideas are created — it is also a space where people come together, traditions are celebrated, and memories are made.

Amidst flowers, prayers, light, and festive energy, the celebration became a beautiful pause to express gratitude and seek blessings for the journey ahead.

Because the spaces we create matter, but so do the moments, bonds, and memories we create within them.

Ganpati Bappa Morya. 🙏

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A celebration of faith, gratitude, light, and togetherness. As the Studio Ardete family came together for aarti, the studio was filled with warmth, devotion, and a sense of shared joy that went far beyond the everyday rhythm of work and design.

These moments remind us that a studio is more than a place where ideas are created — it is also a space where people come together, traditions are celebrated, and memories are made.

Amidst flowers, prayers, light, and festive energy, the celebration became a beautiful pause to express gratitude and seek blessings for the journey ahead.

Because the spaces we create matter, but so do the moments, bonds, and memories we create within them.

Ganpati Bappa Morya. 🙏

#StudioArdete #GaneshChaturthi #GanpatiBappaMorya #StudioLife #Togetherness

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A celebration of faith, gratitude, light, and togetherness. As the Studio Ardete family came together for aarti, the studio was filled with warmth, devotion, and a sense of shared joy that went far beyond the everyday rhythm of work and design.

These moments remind us that a studio is more than a place where ideas are created — it is also a space where people come together, traditions are celebrated, and memories are made.

Amidst flowers, prayers, light, and festive energy, the celebration became a beautiful pause to express gratitude and seek blessings for the journey ahead.

Because the spaces we create matter, but so do the moments, bonds, and memories we create within them.

Ganpati Bappa Morya. 🙏

#StudioArdete #GaneshChaturthi #GanpatiBappaMorya #StudioLife #Togetherness

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