India, May 20 -- Like many of the most compelling architectural works of the early twenty-first century, Fonte D'Amore does not announce its significance through monumental scale or spectacle. Instead, this intimate 60-square-metre courtyard, delicately carved into the heart of a Delhi residence, reveals how a thoughtful interplay of memory, structural logic and digital craftsmanship can elevate the everyday into something quietly extraordinary.

Designed by Manish Gulati, principal architect at M:OFA Studio, Fonte D'Amore - or the "Fountain of Love" - was conceived as an intimate wedding gift from a husband to his wife. Drawing inspiration from the memory of a proposal at Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain, half a decade earlier, and the coupl...