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by Ashish Nangia |
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Sense of Place – Joseph Allen Stein and Laurie Baker
The India international center is a facility for holding exhibitions, conferences, carrying out research in libraries, hosting visitors and scholars in guest accommodation, and more. That is to say, it is a vast facility built on some of the most expensive real estate in India’s capital city for reasons that are slightly unclear. This does not detract from the timely beauty of its design which is dominated by a curving element. The surface decoration of the building is jaali work which is punctuated by vertical columns and horizontal beams. The horizontal beams carry provisions for growing plants along the surfaces of the wall – and it is this element which carries over in most of stein’s work, at least in this particular area of Delhi.
Once one of stein’s buildings has been seen in this area, it is like having a good idea what the others will look like. Some of these are the buildings for the WWF (World Wildlife Fund!), the UNICEF building, the Ford Foundation and the India Habitat Center (IHC as it is colloquially called). But this is not all that Joseph Allen Stein has done. There are numerous other projects on the territory of Delhi that are worthy of note. Of these are the Australian High Commission, for example. Another project, though not in Delhi, is a conference facility in Kashmir, India. But the icing on this particular cake is really a dense facility located very near Connaught Place, the heart of Delhi.
This center, called the Triveni Kala Sangam, is a facility for artists, theater, dance and basic research with exhibition rooms and galleries, as well as an outdoor theater and galleries. The strategic location of this facility within stone’s throw of other cultural institutions such as drama schools, full-fledged theaters and art institutions means that the Triveni Kala Sangam is not lacking in events. Architecturally speaking the facility is approximately three stories high, with a high façade that conceals the open spaces within. The ensemble is laid out in a linear plan of galleries, spaces and dance rooms, articulated around an open air theater and open air exhibition spaces. To one side, is a display of sculptures, to the other a green gallery? All in all, a work of some refinement.
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07-Dec-2014 | ||
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