Neo-gothic architecture
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Project • By Urban Mistrii Studio • Private Houses
The Hill House
Some 10 kms away from Shimla, the project Hill House is banked on one of the peripheral roads of a compounded residential area, AIRA Homes. The place holds decades of memories for the family, now visited by them only as a summer retreat. In 2018, the mother and the daughter unanimously took up the challenge to renovate, with the intent of modifying the interiors to serve their current lifestyle.
The initial interventions solely by the local contractor couldn’t stand up to their vision, and that’s where we jumped into the picture, in collaboration with Kanika Kapoor and Aman Jalota. On receiving the already interfered project with a half built attic and haphazard proposals for the interiors, we then knew that this was going to b... More
Project • By Bartlett & Associates • Cathedrals
St George's Chapel, St James Cathedral
An inspirational and meditative design solution for St. George’s Chapel in the historic Cathedral of St. James, Toronto was the project goal. A Christian place of worship reaching out to many faiths, the 30-seat chapel is intimate and inviting.
Fire once destroyed the original chancel forcing a fresh approach to worship in the context of the historic cathedral. Restoration and refurbishment were undertaken with a thoughtful added contemporary layer. Care was taken to avoid competing with the Neo-Gothic architecture that dominates the 550-sf chapel – a 40-foot ceiling that soars in the space, the south and east stained glass windows pouring in colourful light, the north window into the Cathedral that reinforces the small chapel into th... More