Central Vista: Regressive Urban Planning and Outmoded Architecture

June 21, 2021 17:45

The Indian Government's Central Vista project, designed by Bimal Patel and his firm HCP, is now being executed at top speed and at a pharaonic expense of approximately $3 billion, involves a massive and destructive rearrangement of this entire area, all in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supposed aim of signaling a new, "post-colonial'' vision for India and celebrating 75 years of Independence in 2022.

Read more about how a man's mammoth ego unleashed the makings of an architectural horror.

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