Hafeez Contractor

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Early life

Hafeez Contractor was born in Mumbai in a Parsi family. He earned his graduate diploma in architecture from the University of Mumbai in 1975 and completed his graduation and MS in Architecture from Columbia University, New York City on a Tata scholarship.[2] He studied at the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai and then went on to pursue a post graduation degree from Columbia University in New York.

Career

The Imperial Towers

Hafeez Contractor started working in 1968 as an apprentice with his uncle T. Khareghat even while working toward his architecture degree. In 1977, he became the associate partner in the firm. Between 1977 and 1980, he was a visiting faculty member at the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai.

Architect Hafeez Contractor

He has also designed The Imperial I and II, the tallest buildings in India.[3]

Despite being one of India's most successful architects, he publicly stated that Western standards for "green" buildings are a joke arguing that the problems present in India require unique solutions and we cannot blindly follow the west[4] although according to an article in the New York Times, one of his works were cited to look like the "St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City".[5]

The Slumdog Millionaire Architect

In an interview with the New York Times[6] he was profiled for his influence on modern Architecture in India and as Bollywood's Starchitect. According to the article, "Stylistically, Contractor’s buildings have no signature, save a penchant for glitz." In the interview, Hafeez Contractor said, "I always say . . . that you definitely like a woman with lipstick, rouge, eyelashes. So if you make your building more beautiful with some appliqués, there’s nothing wrong." Instead of a style, what most unifies Contractor’s projects is that they actually get built.

Architecture has long been described as the most political of the Arts, and the key to Contractor’s success is as much his mastery of the policy levers of the world’s largest democracy as his talents as a designer. Combining the skills of an architect with those of a political operative, Contractor has had the ability to read new regulations and immediately find exploitable loopholes and work behind the scenes to shape legislation that serves his business. He is known to cultivate friends in high places, and he has learned to time his public statements judiciously. Most crucially, he has mastered the art of rhetoric, of phrasing his private interests in terms of the public interest.

Projects

  • SKY GARDEN [Greater Noida (West)]
  • Ace parkway Noida
  • Ace golfshire Noida
  • Mahagun Meadows Noida
  • The 42 in Kolkata (under construction)
  • DY Patil Stadium in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
  • Seawoods Estate (or NRI complex) in Nerul, Navi Mumbai
  • DLF Aralias, Gurgaon
  • One Indiabulls Center, Mumbai, India (Ongoing)
  • Morya Regency in Bandra, Mumbai
  • Rodas - An ecotel in Hiranandani Gardens, Powai
  • Hiranandani Gardens
  • Multiple Buildings, DLF City, Gurgaon
  • Mumbai Airport redesign
  • Infosys - Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Pune
  • AV Birla Training centre
  • Aditya Birla Corporate Headquarters
  • Russi Modi Centre of Excellence, Jamshedpur
  • Rajneesh Osho Ashram, Pune
  • NICMAR, Pune
  • Mangal City Mall, Indore
  • Empress City, Nagpur
  • New Patna World City[7]
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Lokhandwala Minerva, Mumbai

Aparna Industrial Promotion Council building Fatuha Patna

  • National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai
  • The Lalit-Ahmedabad

Gallery

References

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