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A project to refurbish the fountain and surrounding square was completed in mid 2019. There's an ancient banyan tree within the Circle, which apparently acted as the venue for India's first stock exchange. Nearby historical buildings include the stock exchange and St. Thomas Cathedral. The Maharashtra Police Headquarters moved into what was known as the Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, in 1982. Construction began on the building in early 1872 and was finished four years later, in 1876.
Exploring the Allure of Modernist Houses in Bombay
After several months of cleaning, the two enlisted their parents' help to get it down to the studs. Now, the couple is working with an engineer to get a new roof on before winter starts this year and has shifted to clearing out the house's grounds. "Imagine having a house back in the day and you could play music everywhere in it from a record player," he says. "The record player was still there when we bought the house, so that was really cool." The couple closed in January 2024 and started the clearing-out process immediately.
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They received UNESCO World Heritage status in 2018, as part of the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai. For architects and firms that shaped Mumbai’s World Heritage Site, click here. 1931Established in 1931 by Mahadeo Krishnaji Jadhav and joined by his students Janardan Ganesh Patki and Ganpat Shrikrishna Dadarkar. The firm was commissioned to build Bhalchandra Bhuvan, Matunga and Rustom Court, Worli.After Jadhav left in 1941 (upon appointment as State Architect for Baroda), the other partners continued working under the name “Patki & Dadarkar”.
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They developed a neutral palette, an open-plan layout to give a sense of seamlessness, and back-pedalled into the past, in a sense, to ensure the space resonated with the original architectural intentions of this 1920s building. The idea was to open and brighten it up, let light and ventilation come through, and maintain the integrity of the 1920s building. It has basically been taken back to the original layout, with a few minor changes to suit me,” says Aswani. Annkur Khosla was invited on board to redesign the interiors of a fifth-floor apartment in Sunshine, in South Mumbai. It overlooks the magnificent Oval Maidan with all of civilisation playing cricket in its grounds. The Mantralaya is on its left, standing across is the neo-Gothic High Court building, and the Victorian Gothic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum on the other side.
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Popular projects this week included a house fronted with concrete columns by Sandy Rendel Architects, a skinny house in Japan and a barn-like holiday home in Suffolk. In skyscraper news, Foster + Partners unveiled its design for a tiered, 62-storey-tall, supertall skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York. It was one of a handful of homes built under commission from Arts & Architecture magazine. The homes built under the sponsorship are collectively known as Case Study Houses. You may recognize a few more names of participants like Charles & Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, J.R. Davidson who built homes in Pacific Palisades and Pasadena. You can find modest tract homes built between 1945 and 1960 in the flats section of Burbank.
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In 1994, the Friends of Schindler House collaborated with the Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien in Vienna and opened the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at Schindler House. A perfect slice of mid-century modern, 1375 North Wetherly Drive is tucked into the hills at the northerly end of this winding canyon road leading off Sunset. The low-built house is all white walls, floor to ceiling glass and distant downtown views.
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Larger and more expensive Mid Century Modern homes dot affluent areas like the Hollywood Hills.You can register for a free account and receive email alerts whenever new Los Angeles Modern homes come on the market. It is one of the busiest railway stations in India, serving as a terminal for both long-distance- and suburban trains. A visit to Varanasi in the 1960s with MF Husain turned out to be a pivotal moment in Ram Kumar's artistic journey. Inspired by the city's spirituality, terrain and structures, he started painting increasingly abstract landscapes.He began to reflect on the impact of human habitation upon nature.
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The sound system was contracted to Beyond Alliance and the speakers are from Origin Acoustics. The main artwork above the ochre sofa is by Rachna Toshniwal, while the smaller piece above the antique switch board is a print from the Picasso Museum in Spain. Lights from Jainsons and West Elm and a carpet from Jaipur Rugs frame the area which is dressed with vases from Claymen (left side table), a yellow vase from Tablescape by Eeshaan (square centre table), and a vase and bust from Paradise Road, Sri Lanka (right side table). A unique blend of modern and traditional design elements define this 2,100 square feet brand new four-bedroom apartment overlooking the Arabian Sea from the 29th floor of an ultra-modern high-rise complex in Worli, Mumbai.
In this article, we delve into the allure of Modernist Houses in Bombay and explore what makes them a quintessential embodiment of contemporary living. Preservation of modernist houses in Bombay presents several challenges, primarily due to urban development pressures and changing attitudes towards architectural heritage. Rapid urbanization often leads to the demolition of older structures to make way for new developments, putting modernist houses at risk of being lost to history.
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Architects for the HSBC Bank Building, Fort in association with John A. Ritchie and L. Architectural firm with Sohrabji Bhedwar and his brother Cawas Kaikushro Bhedwar as name partners. Commissioned to build Queens Court, Green Fields, and Eros Cinema at Oval Maidan, and Syndicate Bank Building, Fort. The Calcutta-based practice submitted the winning entry in a design competition for the ACC building (Cement House, Churchgate). Firm that was commissioned to build Maskati House, Mohammed Ali Road; Madhuban, Dadar, and Philo Mena, Dadar (in consultation with Gajanan B. Mhatre). She has two Master’s degrees, one in Urban Conservation and the other in History and Heritage Management.
"We decided to do that to keep the flow going and help keep costs down," Volkov says. "The really fun part of it all is that you get to witness every stage of the construction." "Over the next two years, we're putting everything we have into the home and living the frugal lifestyle," Phipps says.
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