| indian express estates: 'My designs have a touch of tomorrow'
Posted online: Friday, January 27, 2006 at 1031 hours IST Updated: Friday, January 27, 2006 at 1259 hours IST His unusual architectural designs are wowing people and making waves in the international market. Artistic vision and structural feasibility merge seamlessly into each of his projects. With a rich experience of 30 eventful years and over 300 projects in India and abroad, urban planner, architect and interior designer Ajit Bhuta has built a formidable reputation. In an interview with Anshumali Ruparel, Bhuta talks about his work, designing trends and the challenges before urban planners. http://www.expressestates.in/full_story.php?content_id=62060 --------------------------------------------------------------- | business standard lifestyles: But the USP, or “wow space” of the project will not be the shops, or the eateries, but a butterfly museum. This is in keeping with the “downtown-experience” format and as such has been borrowed from the West, where most downtowns have a musuem of some kind. The butterfly museum is just the kind of “out of the box” thinking that this project, Bhalla’s first mall design, has demanded of him. In a sense, of course, the entire design is “out of the box”, given that “nine out of 10 malls in India are box type”, says he. It wasn’t just the “out of the box” model that Correa had created, but also constraints intrinsic to the project — the proximity to the airport and the low water-table ruling out too tall a structure. In fact, says Bhalla, “It is difficult architecturally to reflect efficiences in out of the box.” http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu4&leftindx=4&lselect=10&chklogin=N&autono=213164 _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
