Infrastructure
Bandra Worli Sea Link
Good friend and journalist Rahul Bhatia writes about the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in a recent weekly edition of the OPEN Magazine. On the sea link that will soon connect Bandra to Worli, fifteen men swept, tarred, and patted a stretch no longer than five meters with uncommon urgency. Noxious tar, fresh off a machine that [...]
Centre for Urban Planning, Infrastructure set up in Bangalore
Centre for infrastructure and sustainable transport and urban planning has been set up at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here. Established with a corpus of Rs.300 million/Rs. 30 crore/$6 mn, it is the first such government-academia facility in the country that will address urban planning and critical infrastructure issues arising out of rapid growth [...]
Mumbai: Big Steps in Infrastructure in 2009
The new year will be a busy one for the infrastructure sector as some prestigious projects finally see completion and with others scheduled to take off. The much touted Bandra-Worli Sealink, an urban haat in Navi Mumbai on the lines of Dilli Haat, eight flyovers on the Western and Eastern express highways and 50 skywalks [...]
Building urban India
That we really don’t know what India’s urban infrastructure price tag is going to be is a big challenge by Ramesh Ramanathan India’s cities face many challenges, and one looms larger than the rest: How much will it cost to build our urban infrastructure? Among the recent sources of urban infrastructure cost estimations are: —From [...]
As India’s southern centres choke, IT goes north
TWO Indian cities are emerging to challenge the traditional centres of Bangalore and Hyderabad as the country’s information technology services grow at 20 per cent annually. Chandigarh – home of India’s first Olympics gold medal winner, Abhinav Bindram – and Coimbatore are fast attracting technology companies and workers as inadequate infrastructure cripples the southern centres [...]
Re-use of Olympic Architecture post-event
As New Delhi gears up to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the issue of what cities do with star architecture projects post-event comes up. The article below looks at one such instance in the aftermath of Beijing 2008. In a July interview with Der Spiegel, celebrated Olympic architect Jacques Herzog defended his decision to [...]
Freedom Park in Bangalore Set to Open in November
A vital green space to beat the city centre rush, topped with a slice of history. On offer is a unique experience, as the BBMP gets ready to open the long-in-the-wait Freedom Park to the public in November, this year. The 20-acre park, coming up in the former central prison premises on Seshadri Road, has [...]
Railway expansion plan stuck in court
Central railway station is bursting at its seams. The number of trains and passengers far exceeds the capacity of the building and also the railway lines. Southern Railway has finalised an over Rs 600-crore expansion plan to build a separate terminal on the west side of the Moore Market Complex (MMC) and to realign the [...]
No space for shops in most Bangalore Metro stations
By Zainab Bawa , 14 Aug 2008 It will not be a happy Independence Day for shopkeepers displaced by the Metro. The BMRCL has planned shop-less stations in key areas like Indiranagar, drowning the question of compensatory space for them. The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL)’s plan for shopping space inside the to-be-built metro [...]
7 deadly sins of Indian design
Came across a very interesting article in LiveMint. India is enjoying a design boom, but we seem to be making some odd — and expensive — mistakes by Melissa A. Bell Every other week a new design store opens in a major metropolis in the country. In every direction, buildings are coming up, hotels [...]
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