Riyaz Tayyibji

Posted Posted in Interviews19

TML. As a member of the jury, what were your initial reactions when you reviewed the list of 225 projects? What were your considerations or criteria when you were making your selection? RT: I think that my initial reaction going through the entire set of about 225, was that somehow the quality of architecture across the board seems to be maturing. […]

Rajiv Soni

Posted Posted in Interviews19

TML. What were your initial reactions to the 225 projects you reviewed as part of this process? What were the key considerations for shortlisting your projects? RS: Well, shortlisting them was not going to be easy because they were all in equal platform, right? There was the extra large, medium, the small, all put together. And the brief that we had […]

Vijay Narnapatti

Posted Posted in Interviews19

TML. As a member of the jury, what were your initial reactions when you reviewed the list of 225 projects? What were your considerations or criteria when you were making your selection? VN: Of the 215-225 entries that I saw, there seems to be a cross section of ideas. The ones that came to attention were those which had a […]

Dean D’Cruz

Posted Posted in Interviews19

TML. As a member of the 2018-19 jury, what are your comments and observations on the process of The Merit List? DD: The fact that you all actually asked the jury members to shortlist on their own separately is very interesting, and then actually start with assigning values to them by the number of people who selected a particular project. […]

Brinda Somaya

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TML. When you first reviewed the list comprising of 225 projects, what criteria did you set for yourself to shortlist? What were you looking for within the body of submitted projects? BS: It was quite difficult to set. Not just because of the numbers, but because of the great variety and differences in the work, both in terms of size, […]