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Mumbai: Kodak moment for Cathedralites
Updated On: 12 November, 2023 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Fiona Fernandez
With 11th and 12th grade students of Cathedral and John Connon School set to move into a space on DN Road that once belonged to a popular photo film company, the adaptive reuse of a site could become a game changer for heritage sites in the precinct
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The East facade pedestrian arcade on the ground floor has an entrance porch and acts as a connector joining an array of building styles along this historic stretch of Dr DN Road
Now we can call it, “Four schools and a cathedral!” Brinda Somaya suggests as the title of the collective effort of their architectural firm SNK Consultants. We are at the end of a walkthrough that Somaya and her daughter Nandini Somaya Sampat have offered us inside the restored building on DN Road that will now house senior secondary students of Cathedral and John School.
“It’s important when you transition to any of the Cathedral school buildings to retain the familiarity, a sense of comfort and security. Memories lie in between corridors, on a staircase; it’s about light streaming in through the windows. We stuck with the familiar green shades on the walls, the flooring, the door details, and the wooden double classroom doors that are distinctive of the school,” says Nandini Somaya Sampat. Pics/AISHWARYA DEODHAR
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