Landscape,with restraint.

Work on the house began in 2011, stopped for eight years, and resumed during the pandemic. Through all of it, a 90-year-old cannonball tree stood in what would become the courtyard.

The garden was drawn around it. The tree's shadow set the curved outline of the paving beneath it. Out in the acre, a wavy corten screen and stainless-steel discs that mirror the planting finish the picture.

An office on a busy ring road, around 2,000 square feet of open ground, and three courtyards around mature neem trees. The trees stayed, and the plan grew out of them.

Fluid corten walls wrap the garden and close off the road. The central courtyard is a dry garden: polished black granite and star galaxy stone stand in for water and hold a reflection of the canopy. Cacti and palms, chosen for Hyderabad's rock and heat, ask for very little.

On a 1,400-square-yard plot in the Financial District, the house turns inward to a courtyard. Water runs through it, and the sound covers the noise of the city outside.

Folded concrete planters, made from local material, hold native plants. Rainwater is harvested and irrigation kept low. The sculptures, made by Kiasma with Formforge, are corten and weather on their own.

A compact plot in a neighbourhood short on green. The ground falls six feet, and the plots behind sit twenty feet higher, behind retaining walls.

The design reads the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for a modern street: creepers spill down the building and over the walls. Two existing trees were kept as the anchors of the seating, and the brewery block was turned to give them room.