"It was a huge project for us as individuals to restore the building,” Farokh Commissariat told Parsiana on June 23. The multi-tenanted Commissariat Building located on Bombay’s Dr Dadabhai Naoroji (D. N.) Road has been in their family since the time it was built in 1925.
The nearly century old building has received a new lease of life and was awarded the first prize at the HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) Design Awards 2020-21, reported sunday mid-day (SMD) of April 4, 2021. Sadly, the patriarch, Homi Commissariat, the prime mover in the restoration project for his family-owned building passed away on April......