Tarik Currimbhoy to design new Dubai restaurant
May 23, 2014 – Architect Tarik Currimbhoy is to design New York restaurant Junoon’s new branch in Dubai’s Shangri-La Hotel.
The restaurant – which has held a Michelin star since opening in 2011 – has chosen the location for its second outlet.
It will mark the beginning of an international expansion phase for the eaterie which was founded by New York-based Rajesh Bhardwaj.
The new restaurant will incorporate elements of the original Manhattan restaurant, although its food and beverage will also be influenced by the Arabian Peninsula.
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Tarik Currimbhoy (ISP 76-79) has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute and Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Pratt Institute. He has been practicing for 30 years as a free lance architect and artist in New York and Mumbai.
I am one of three children of a nuclear family having grown up in Bombay, India. My father, Asif Currimbhoy, worked for Burmah Shell Corporation by day and was a playwright by night. My brother and I went to a boarding school in Rajkot, India. Upon completing school, my aunt, a doctor in New York, generously invited me to New York to pursue higher studies in whatever field I chose. I thought of studying art and dreamt that I would one day be a painter. With that in mind I applied to the Pratt Institute.
At art school I found that my interests were in the three dimensional. So I decided to pursue a fine arts degree in Industrial Design and in my second year received an Aga Khan Foundation scholarship to pursue my education at Pratt Institute. There I met Rowena Reed Kostello, my space analysis teacher, who taught me how to sense form and feel space. She was a great influence on me. One of the pioneers of American Modernism, she taught me to understand the purity of form and space. This was the beginning of my interest in the field I love and that has spanned my 30-year career.
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