Shimul Javeri Kadri is an Indian architect who is the founder of SJK Architects, an architectural firm in the city of

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, India. It has won multiple international & national awards including the Prix Versailles Award (2016) and the

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Award (2012). It has also been named one of Architectural Digest's Top 100 (AD 100) and Top 50 (AD50) that features the most influential architects and interior designers in India. Kadri has a philosophy of building in harmony with

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— using natural elements, sunlight, wind, natural materials, and cultural contexts. Her projects include museums, hotels, office and industrial buildings, educational institutions, and

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Biography

Kadri studied architecture in Mumbai at the Academy of Architecture, and Urban Planning at the

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. She set up SJK Architects after she returned to India from the US in 1990. Award-winning buildings she has designed include the Automobile Design Studio for

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, India, which won the

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Museum of Architecture and Design Award 2016. The design of the Dasavatara Hotel in

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, India won the Prix Versailles Special Prize in 2016, while the design of the Lotus Cafe in the same hotel won the Prix Versailles in the Restaurants category. The design and architecture of the Nirvana Films office,

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, has won multiple awards including the World Architecture Festival Small Project of the Year Award 2012, the Excellence in Design Award, and the FuturArc Green Leadership Award. Other significant projects include the Synergy Lifestyles factory in

Karur Karur () is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karur is the administrative headquarters of Karur district. It is located on the banks of River Amaravathi, Kaveri and Noyyal. Karur is well known for the export of Home Textile products to ...

, Sparkrill International School and SR Engineering College in

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and Ayushakti, an ayurvedic health resort in Mumbai. The challenge was to build this ayurvedic resort in a crowded Mumbai suburb within a narrow 16 m wide plot bounded on three sides by residential buildings, yet infuse it with light, air, space, joy and peace. Shimul serves as a trustee for Akshara, a women's resource centre in Mumbai a for

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India where she has been actively steering education and women's projects.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadri, Shimul Javeri Living people 1953 births Indian women architects 20th-century Indian architects Artists from Mumbai 20th-century Indian women artists Women artists from Maharashtra Qadiri order