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Talk by Vaishali Mangalvedhekar   | Smartex 2025  Delhi on 19th February 2025 A reflection on contemporary luxury in architecture –...

Write-up by   Akshata Ghuge & Shimul Javeri Kadri Sunday, 12th January 2025 In the years that we have been working on cultural projects -...

Epilogue by Shimul Javeri Kadri | ADFF:STIR Mumbai on 11th January 2025 A reflection on E.1027 – 'Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea', exploring the visionary work of Eileen Gray and the enduring impact of modernist design. Shimul presenting at ADFF:STIR Mumbai A Little Bit About Eileen Gray Eileen was born Irish in 1878. She was landed gentry from her mother's side, and her father was a landscape painter, but her parents parted ways when she was 11. She studied fine art a

Sometimes, we design single family homes in cities. The multi storey ones where the Indian joint family meets tight urban plots. A space where the new India of gyms, home theatres and privacy meets strongly held values of family and community. Meanwhile, governance keeps a vigilant eye, restricting ideas within a controlled box with setbacks and height limits! How can a building hold together three generations, their aspirations and aesthetics, their private moments of happy

As we look forward to 2024, we're sharing some hope and joy through this blog written by Shimul Javeri Kadri. I had two related but...

Write-up and Concept Storyboards by Ahanta Ganti Our senior project lead who strives to work with alternative materials, relates her...

India Penguin Random House India gathered their learnings through the pandemic and adapted to the hybrid work system. The...

Journey through Myriad landscapes, © Baidehi Rej, SJK Architects We were commissioned through a rigorous process of selection as the only...

Write-up by Shimul Javeri Kadri I wrote this as an architect, but I have worked in education, wondered and thought about and designed for the intersection of the two. I hope you enjoy my ruminations across personal memories, design, and popular culture. I went to school at the age of three. I still recall the confusion I felt over being amidst many crying children in the basement of the former palace of the Maharaja of Kutch. The next ten years of my life were spent in this

Mumbai, India Sometimes, a little project, one you never dreamt would encounter water seepage and a pandemic, emerges from a chrysalis to...