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Taj Hotel, Mumbai, by Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury

Taj Hotel, Mumbai, design by Kanvinde Rai and Choudhary

Planned as an extension to the historic Taj Hotel at Mumbai, by Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury, the proposal aims to harmonise with the existing context yet create an iconic structure. Considering orientation and view, the extension is designed in a staggered-room layout off a singly loaded corridor, allowing a majority of the rooms to take advantage of facing the sea. The design for the tower block is in contrast to the existing structure and takes cues from the existing hotel in providing circular bay windows, arched vaults, corbelled brackets, and stone facing, thereby imparting a unique sculpted character to the facade.  

Design Year: 1970
Architects: Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury, New Delhi
Text and Images provided by the architects

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Rupali Gupte

Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.

Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

Rupali Gupte