A massive building with hand-drawn designs would have had about a half-inch stack of plans, Butcher said. That same project done today by computer-aided design would have a 3-inch stack.

This 2005 drawing of New York’s Top of the Standard, a.k.a. the Boom Boom Room, shows what Alesch recalls would have been done in the early- to mid-design development phase.

Jamiya Joseph, a 24-year-old from Alappuzha, features among the winners of the coveted European Product Design Award (EPDA).