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. More about Dezeen's top 10 Indian architecture projects of 2025
Indian architecture studio 23 Degrees Design Shift has created a five-bedroom weekend home surrounded by a moat near Hyderabad, India. More about 23 Degrees Design Shift surrounds multi-generational Hyderabad home with moat
Sweeping concrete and brick walls wrap a circular, water-filled courtyard at the heart of The Sanctum, a low-slung home in Punjab, India, designed by local architecture studio Renesa. More about Courtyard acts as "spatial and emotional nucleus" of Indian house by Renesa
Architecture studio Wallmakers has completed Bridge House in rural Karjat, India, a weekend home spanning a seven-metre-deep gorge and clad entirely in furry thatched scales. More about "Thatch-mud" scales cloak habitable bridge in India by Wallmakers
Perforated brick walls, courtyards and arcades are intended to imitate the bylanes of an Indian city at The Street, a community clubhouse in Pune, India, designed by local practice Studio VDGA. More about Meandering alleyways encourage "spontaneous interactions" at Pune clubhouse by Studio VDGA
Local studio Field Atelier has completed a breezy home near Goa, India, which is wrapped by verandas sheltered by sliding timber screens and folding metal doors. More about Sliding screens of woven timber ventilate House in Corjeum by Field Atelier
Earthy tones and tactile materials characterise Toybox, a 160-year-old Portuguese-style home in Goa, restored by Indian practice Grounded. More about Grounded adapts 160-year-old Goan home for contemporary living
Bengaluru studio Multitude of Sins has used rejected samples, broken prototypes and construction waste to transform an apartment into its material lab and research space. More about Multitude of Sins designs own material lab as "spatial memoir" of salvaged materials
Architecture practice UnTAG has created a home in the Western Ghats mountain range, India, which has terracotta-hued spaces and integrated planting. More about UnTAG uses plants and earthen textures for biophilic villa in India
Architecture practice 182 Design has completed Sanctum of Trees, a stone memorial space in Tamil Nadu, India, that was lined with deep red concrete to symbolise the human heart. More about Forest memorial in India by 182 Design is a "spiritual threshold"
Staggered courtyards, colourful skylights and bridges animate this Indian school extension, which architecture practice Spacefiction Studio has designed to challenge the typical "constricted classroom format". More about Spacefiction Studio prioritises natural light and air at colourful school in India
Indian architecture studio Iki Builds has completed Soil and Soul Studio, a home in Hyderabad crafted with a palette of natural, local materials and construction rubble. More about Iki Builds critiques "disposable nature of modern construction" with rural Indian home
Indian practice Studio Sangath has completed a sprawling villa near Ahmedabad, using coloured concrete and bricks to frame a "meandering" series of terraces and rooms. More about Studio Sangath uses terracotta-toned brickwork and concrete for Alloa Hills Weekend Home in India
Indian office Iksoi Studio has remodelled a former factory in the western state of Gujarat into its new HQ, drawing on "memories, familiar forms and emotional attachments of the past". More about Iksoi Studio turns Indian factory into own architecture studio
An arts centre designed by Balkrishna Doshi in Ahmedabad, India, has been extended by Studio Sangath, the architecture studio co-led by the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner's granddaughter. More about Balkrishna Doshi's granddaughter adds black box theatre to his Kanoria Centre for Arts
University of East London staff and students have created a school building in India from Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block made from sugarcane waste. More about Low-carbon blocks made from sugarcane waste used to form classroom in India
Arched openings frame walkways, cloisters and niches for birds at Forest of Peace, an ashram in Nardipur, India designed by local architecture studio Raasa. More about Arched openings create "symbolic thresholds" for ashram in India
Architecture studio Nudes has used pink fluted concrete to clad an apartment building in the coastal suburb of Bandra, Mumbai, India. More about Nudes wraps Mumbai apartment building in pink fluted concrete facades
Indian studio Prithvi Architects has completed Winterfell, a mud-walled house woven around existing trees and rock formations in the village of Shoolagiri in Tamil Nadu. More about Prithvi Architects winds mud-walled Indian house around existing trees
Architecture practice Studio Saar has built a dairy facility in south Rajasthan, India, using 560 tonnes of reclaimed material including steel and rubble. More about Studio Saar uses reclaimed materials for Gaushala dairy facility in India