British firm to design few Indian cities
British design firm Building Design Partnership has selected three Indian cities; Bangalore, Kolkata and Mohali to have a footprint in the country’s urban design space.
By Shantanu Nandan Sharma, TNN |
NEW DELHI: British design firm Building Design Partnership has selected three Indian cities; Bangalore, Kolkata and Mohali to have a footprint in the country’s urban design space. Whereas it has already secured a contract from realty major Unitech to prepare a masterplan for a 300-acre township project in Kolkata, its foray into Bangalore and Mohali will be disclosed soon, BDP’s urbanism director Andrew Tindsley told ET.
The Forty six year old British firm works in the field of architecture, engineering, town and transport planning. “We are looking at masterplanning some parts of an existing city or a green-field project altogether. We have masterplanned among others Grosvenor’s 42-acre paradise project in the city of Liverpool in UK.
The project, which is happening around the Paradise Street in Liverpool, will see the construction of new buildings and refurbishment of historic buildings. We would like to replicate such models in India too,” Mr Tindsley said.
The firm has worked with renowned developers such as ING, Grosvenor, Hammerson, Land Securities etc. The bigger projects of the firm include design for a new city centre block in New Cathedral Street, Manchester, a three-level leisure and retail development at Tres Aguas in Madrid, refurbishment of the Trade Rows of Gum, Moscow to name a few.
Mr Tindsley, however, refused to elaborate the terms and conditions of the Kolkata project with Unitech. “It’s just a beginning in Kolkata. We feel there are huge opportunities in India’s urban space. We would not like execute a work or two, and then go back. Instead, we would like to have a base in India for longer term project execution,” he said.
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