Navi Mumbai
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It is among the top ten railway stations in the world. It has stood for 129 years. Unless a major natural calamity strikes, it could stand for another 500 or 1,000 years.
Whatever its stature on the world stage, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is for most Mumbaikars essentially a transit point—…
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Vishwas Gupta: I moved into Artists’ Village in 2000 as a permanent resident, but I owned a house from the allotment date, that is, 1987. My father was an artist, so it was allotted in his name. We used to frequently come on weekends and stay over here. But I formally moved in in 2000 after I…
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Charles Correa (1930–2015) was one of the most important architects of post-Independence India. Born on the 1st September 1930 in Secunderabad, India, he studied in St Xavier’s College in Mumbai before doing his Bachelors in Architecture at the University of Michigan. Following this, he completed…
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Website of Charles Correa Associates
Charles Correa Archives, Charles Correa Foundation, Goa
Projects by Correa
'City on the Water' (17 min; 1975), a documentary directed by Charles Correa on the problems facing Bombay in the 1960s–'70s that led to the decision to create New Bombay (now Navi…
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Correa’s Contribution to New and Small Towns
For many architects, considerations of urban design occur piecemeal, an afterthought once the buildings are in place, the landscaping is done and the roads leading to it are in order. However Charles Correa—the man who swore never to design a glass…
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