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If the kitchen is the heart of the home and the courtyard its lung, the drawing room is the soul, tying all the spaces together. Architects pick their favourite living rooms.

Amit Aurora and Rahul Bansal
Principal Architects, groupDCA, Delhi www.groupdca.in

When many generations of the same family live together, then the common areas are perhaps the most challenging ones. Architects Amit Aurora and Rahul Bansal took this challenge head on for one of their projects, the Jindal residence. The design of the Jindal residence in Delhi began as an exercise in trying to provide personally identifiable living spaces to all members of the familyspanning three generationsunder one roof, says Aurora. The main entrance opens into a foyer that provides access to the drawing room and to

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