India Developing, but still a long way to go

[Bombaywalla]

Govt announces highway projects worth $93 bn to woo investors
PTI

Damn! This photo looks like it was taken during the finishing stage of the Bombay-Pune Expressway's construction ... I'd say the year 2000.

 

[Nilgiri]

Damn! This photo looks like it was taken during the finishing stage of the Bombay-Pune Expressway's construction ... I'd say the year 2000.

Yah I remember pictures like that coming in India Today around that time.

 

[patentneer]

Check this fantastic proposal re: Dharavi slum redevelopment:

(c) worldarchitecturenews.com as posted by jinka sreekanth @ SkyscraperCity
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An Indian housing solution that stacks up

A project that aimed to find a temporary housing solution for the densely populated Dharavi Slum in Mumbai, India has used containers as a solution. When designing two towers that would solve a housing problem in Mumbai, India, CRG Architects had to deal with an irregular shaped site that pushed up the height of the tallest tower to maximise volume. Two towers were chosen with the shape of the site dictating where to split the volume and where they should be located. To maximise the views in any direction they decided to use a cylinder shape for the base of the towers. Taking the mass that doesn’t belong to the cylinders, the architect overlapped them to grow the tower’s area.

The classical and standard container’s storage position allowed CRG Architects to have only one direction of views, with the windows opening on the smallest side. Rotating the position of the containers by 90 degrees provides more façade surface and greater possibilities for opening windows, but still only one direction of views. Changing the position of the containers by following a cylindrical shape, meant multiple views around the site could be obtained. Alternating them around the cylinder provides wind flow through the containers, helping them to remove and decrease the amount of heat.

1. The skyline of Mumbai will be severely modified after receiving the “Containscraper” on its dense urban grid. The position of both towers is the answer to the irregular shape of the site, giving this area a new landmark with a striking visual presence.
   
   
2. The circular floor plan of the bottom of the tower reflects the old method of circular positions for self-defence, allowing the inhabitants to feel the security that a building with these characteristics provides.
   
   
3. The core of both towers is also made with containers in a vertical position, allowing elevator units to be housed in one of each of the containers in an upright position.
   
   
4. The distribution in height of vertical gardens, together with the separation side by side of every container unit, helps the whole system to remove and decrease the heat dissipation produced by the high temperatures experienced during summer in Mumbai, and the transmission of heat from the metal facade of each container.
   
   
5. The colouring of facades responds to the heating rate of each side of the building, depending on their orientation, and the solar incidence of the site. Therefore there are warm colours on the south side, and cold colours on the north side.

 

[Nilgiri]

Interesting concept.

Hope Dharavi is redeveloped quickly and efficiently so people there can get accommodation and living standards in line with the good economic work they do.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Check this fantastic proposal re: Dharavi slum redevelopment:

Has such a thing been done? A super tall scrapper made out of shipping containers, that's unique. Might look pretty damn ugly though.

 

[IN-2030]

Centre to Invest Rs 8.5 Lakh Crore in Railways -The New Indian Express
NEW DELHI: Sharpening focus on infrastructure development to boost growth, government will invest Rs 8.5 lakh crore in Indian Railways to change the face of the sector, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said today.

He also appealed to the opposition parties to help pass the GST bill that will usher in a new indirect taxes regime in the country, boosting business activity.

Speaking at the annual convention of Automotive Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA), Sinha said the government is "very focused" on infrastructure.

"After a decade of chronic under investment in Indian Railways we have decided we will invest Rs 8.5 lakh crore in Indian railways alone. This is extraordinary and will change the face of railways in India," he said.

Also, investment in roads has been doubled this year. He did not provide investment details.

Sinha said it was a "deep disappointment" that the GST Constitution Amendment Bill could not be passed in the last session of Parliament.

"(I am) appealing to the opposition that we recognise that we have a rock solid national consensus to pass the Good and Services Tax and we can get this constitutional amendment passed and really improve prospects to do business in India," he said.

He said the government will work with "all our colleagues in Parliament to get the GST Constitution Amendment Bill passed".

The minister said land reforms are aimed at making it easier to get the land necessary for public purpose primarily road, Highways and railways.

"We are also looking at what all can we do as far as ease of doing business in India is concerned as this will be priority for Make In India," he added.

 

[Bombaywalla]

That tower is design competition work; it won't ever get built.

 

[Mr.Nair]

TVM International stadium

Bangalore

@Muhammad Omar

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Yeh Banglore me Mall hai?? or us me Open air Concert area?

 

[Abingdonboy]

Chennai metro:

Overview of Depot

Operations Control Centre (OCC):

Washing Plant

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[Abingdonboy]

Mumbai Airport:

 

[gslv mk3]

The design for Kochi metro trainset( also made by Alstom )

 

[Mr.Nair]

Trivandrum, 36 floor

Cc-Travancore_007/skyscrapercity.com

 

[gslv mk3]

Trivandrum, 36 floor

where @ trivandrum ?

 

[Mr.Nair]

where @ trivandrum ?

Kazhakoottam