All you need to know about Oscar & Ponni architects that designed new secretariat building of Telangana

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has finalized the designs submitted by the Chennai-based Oscar & Ponni architects for the construction of new secretariat building in Telangana. Keeping in mind of Vaastu, the construction firm designed the new secretariat building in Architectural elevation style, also incorporating with traditional Deccan Kakatiya style. With a total of six floors, the plan is designed in rectilinear fashion with respect to the site.

After going through several designs, the state Chief Minister finalized the Oscar & Ponni Architects, which won international acclaim in designs and building. It has won more than 131 international, national and state awards for architecture and interiors. Some of its works that were recognized nationally and internationally are Satyam Technology Information Technology Park at Bhubaneswar, Orissa for which the firm won an award for 'Excellence in Built Environment', awarded by the then President of India Dr AP J Abdul Kalam.

In 2005, the firm won the 'Architect of the year Award', 2004 from then Chief Minister of Pondicherry, Mr Rangasamy. In the year 2008, they had won the prestigious Indian Institute of Architects, IIA National Award 2008 for the Sastra BioTech Park for Sastra University at Tanjore. They have won the Indian Buildings Congress Award seven

times for their information technology parks, campuses and townships. In 2009, their project won the Archi Design 'Best Institutional Building' Award. In the same year Oscar & Ponni Architects Sastra University project Sastra Arts and Science, Tanjore, won the Best Institutional/Corporate building award. In 2012, they won 6 national awards for their Institutional, Cultural, Township projects and Hotel interior projects, awarded by 'Artists in Concrete awards' at Pune.

In the year 2012 Oscar & Ponni Architects have won 13 awards which are unprecedented in India. In the year 2013, Oscar & Ponni Architects have won 3 Indian Buildings Congress Awards for Excellence in Architecture and two awards for Artists in Concrete Awards Asia -2012. In the year 2014 Oscar & Ponni Architects have two International AICA Awards at Pune and two National Awards from the Indian Buildings Congress at New Delhi and both have won the Distinguished Alumni Golden Jubilee Award from NIT, Trichy from the then President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

In 2015 Oscar & Ponni Architects have already won11 International Awards. In the year 2016 Oscar & Ponni has won two Icons of Spaces Awards, BERG Awards at Singapore in July 2016, and 2 Estrade Architecture & Interior Awards in Singapore, October 2016 and Architect Ponni was awarded the WADE Women Architects Achiever Award at New Delhi in May 2016. Architect Ponni in 2018 has won the Jewel of Chennai award along with 3 other awards for Architecture Interiors, and in 2019 two BAM Awards for Hospitality and Eco Friendly architecture.