Here's hoping that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is successful in its attempt to stop the aesthetic and environmental vandalism proposed by the country's Public Works Division, which wants to tear down large stretches of Lutyens' colonial bungalow zone.
As The Independent says: "It is not only misty-eyed colonels, nostalgic for the Raj, who will mourn the destruction of Lutyens' Delhi, if it happens. His creation is admired by architecture-lovers the world over, and it has as many admirers among Indians as it has among Europeans. The Indian press is regularly full of encomiums on the city's grace and beauty. Which makes it all the more astonishing that the CPWD now wants to tear part of it down."
Posted by Alan Allport at November 2, 2004 08:22 AM