Constuction of structures has always been a concrete factor in development but it is ignored that they take more than what they provide. Innovation shouldn't be at the stake of compromise, Architect Karan Grover shows the best amalgamation of vintage techniques and principles, use of water and all of sustainability with his experience of making Champaner, as world's largest heritage site.

Karan Grover has been passionately advocating the need to look at ones culture and heritage for clues as to the direction for a contemporary architecture and sustainable development relevant to the Indian context today. He has enthused children in conservation and been nominated a “social entrepreneur” as a Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation, Washington. Winner of all the Indian Awards for Excellence in Architecture and Interior Design; he almost single handedly won India’s nominations for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site status for Champaner after a 22 year old campaign in 2004, Grover became the first architect in the world to win the U.S. GBC “Platinum” Award twice, one for the greenest building in the world and other for the interior of ABN AMRO Bank at Ahmedabad. He was nominated as one of India's top 10 architects consecutively for 5th year by the Construction World.

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