Culture, increasingly fractured and unplanned
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May 28, 2021 01:14 IST
Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out
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Under the Central Vista project, the urban planning for a single, linked cultural district seems to have been tossed out
We have been given to understand from the publicly known plans for the “Central Vista Redevelopment Project”, that the National Museum of India is to occupy what are currently the South Block offices of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Defence, and the Ministry of External Affairs, as well as the North Block offices of the Home and Finance Ministries. These buildings were designed by Herbert Baker. The Parliament House building designed by Edwin Lutyens is to be turned into another museum, apparently a ‘museum of democracy’. The national capital could, in that case, potentially have a grand plaza of three extraordinary intercon