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'''Shimul Javeri Kadri''' is an [[List of Indian architects|Indian architect]] who is the founder of SJK Architects, an architectural firm in the city of [[Mumbai]], India.<ref name=India>{{Cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Bricks+and+mortar/1/3376.html|title= Shimul Javeri Kadri|accessdate=18 October 2015|publisher=India Today}}</ref>

It has won multiple international & national awards including the [[Prix Versailles]] Award (2016) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Companies/P2DJO7W76FcvzntnyTLllJ/India-is-going-through-a-cultural-colonization-Shimul-Javer.html|title=India is going through a cultural colonization, says Shimul Javeri|last=Vasudev|first=Shefalee|date=2016-05-28|website=Mint|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> and the [[World Architecture Festival]] Award (2012).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architectandinteriorsindia.com/lists/2618-shimul-javeri-kadri|title=Shimul Javeri Kadri|website=ArchitectandinteriorsIndia|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> It has also been named one of Architectural Digest's Top 100 (AD 100)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ad100-awards-cutting-edge-architects-who-arent-afraid-to-experiment/|title=AD100 Awards {{!}} Cutting Edge: Aesthetes who aren't afraid to experiment and innovate|date=2018-03-08|website=Architectural Digest India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> and Top 50 (AD50)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ad50-2017-avant-garde-sjk-architects/|title=AD50 2017 Avant-Garde: SJK Architects|date=2017-04-10|website=Architectural Digest India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> that features the most influential architects and interior designers in India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/ad100-2019-sjk-architects-mumbai/|title=AD100 2019: SJK Architects|date=2019-03-27|website=Architectural Digest India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> Kadri has a philosophy of building in harmony with [[nature]]— using natural elements, sunlight, wind, natural materials, and cultural contexts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Jw9jhm7A0KhVjgQw9xyEVK/Shimul-Javeri-Kadri-What-I-wear-should-adequately-express-w.html|title=Shimul Javeri Kadri: What I wear should adequately express who I am|last=Sharma|first=Komal|date=2017-11-17|website=Mint|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>

Her projects include museums, hotels, office and industrial buildings, educational institutions, and [[bungalows]].

==Biography==
Kadri studied architecture in Mumbai at the Academy of Architecture, and Urban Planning at the [[University of Michigan, Ann Arbor|University of Michigan Ann Arbor]]. She set up SJK Architects after she returned to India from the US in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/supplement/story/20180528-architecture-is-a-collaboration-with-people-ideas-and-attitudes-shimul-javeri-kadri-1236202-2018-05-18|title=Architecture is a collaboration with people, ideas and attitudes: Shimul Javeri Kadri|last=May 18|first=Aditi Pai|last2=May 28|first2=2018 ISSUE DATE|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19|last3=May 18|first3=2018UPDATED|last4=Ist|first4=2018 16:18}}</ref>

Award-winning buildings she has designed include the Automobile Design Studio for [[Mahindra and Mahindra Limited]], India, which won the [[Chicago Athenaeum]] Museum of Architecture and Design Award 2016. The design of the Dasavatara Hotel in [[Tirupati]], India won the Prix Versailles Special Prize in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prix-versailles.com/2016-awards|title=Prix Versailles {{!}} 2016 Awards|website=prix-versailles|language=fr|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> while the design of the Lotus Cafe in the same hotel won the Prix Versailles in the Restaurants category. <ref>[http://diversum.net/fichiers/File/%28en%29_Prix_Versailles_30-05-2016.pdf Prix Versailles press release, 30 May 2016]</ref><ref>[http://www.livemint.com/Companies/P2DJO7W76FcvzntnyTLllJ/India-is-going-through-a-cultural-colonization-Shimul-Javer.html ''Mint'', 28 May 2016]</ref> The design and architecture of the Nirvana Films office, [[Bengaluru]], 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wadeasia.com/user/|title=User|website=WADe ASIA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>

Other significant projects include the Synergy Lifestyles factory in [[Karur]], Sparkrill International School and [[SR Engineering College]] in [[Warangal]] 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. <ref name="Hecar">{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehecarfoundation.org/shimuljaverikadri01.html|title=Shimul Javeri Kadri – The Hecar Foundation|publisher=Hecar Foundation|accessdate=18 October 2015}}</ref>

Shimul serves as a trustee for Akshara, a women’s resource centre in Mumbai a for [[Save the Children India|Save the Children]] India where she has been actively steering education and women’s projects.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{UR|https://www.sjkarchitect.com/|Official website}}

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