Kuber Shah

2 weeks ago | architecturaldigest.in | Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar |Kuber Shah

If there’s one thing restoration architect Rochelle Santimano has down to a fine art, it’s designing homes over a fish thali—or two. “It became our thing,” she says of herself and her client, Gautam Birudavolu, whose home, a 100-year-old Goa bungalow in the village of Parra—which he shares with his wife, Shivani, and their two teenage daughters—owes its transformation less to CAD drawings and more to chonak-fuelled epiphanies.

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.in | Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar |Kuber Shah

Someone once said that the ultimate luxury is time, but that someone, insists interior designer Manmeet Arora, had probably never lived by the sea. If there’s one thing the founder and principal of the Goa-based LOC Design House has firmly come to learn since moving from Mumbai to Goa during COVID, it’s that living by the coast can be good for the soul—so good, in fact, that you might consider never leaving, unless it involves travelling to another coastline just as special.

Jan 16, 2024 | architecturaldigest.in | Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar |Kuber Shah

Dance practitioner and educator Avantika Bahl and her husband, consultant Avinash Goyal, knew early on that the parcel of lakeside land they'd purchased in the ghats of Maharashtra's Kamshet was anything but ordinary. For one, it sat by a large lake and was covered with dancing grasses, but equally, and perhaps more importantly, it piqued Bahl's sensory and somatic perception as an artist.

Sep 5, 2023 | architecturaldigest.in | Alisha Lad |Rashmi Haralalka |Swareena Gurung |Kuber Shah

For Lara de Rooij, partner and principal architect at LMC Architects, designing a home is a psychoanalytical game, a coordinated dance of understanding the homeowners’ personality and translating it to tangible space. “I analyse who my client is and what they want their house to represent. Right from the beginning, it is extremely clear to me that I am ultimately designing for someone else, so the space needs to give life to their wants,” she elaborates.