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Dirty designs on Delhi.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| July 10, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Times of India)

Byline: Jyoti Sharma & Jyothi Prabhakar

With its design facing criticism, the 47-metre Police Memorial at the Shantipath-Panchsheel Marg junction could well be demolished. Who then approves the design of public structures? Why isn't Delhi an aesthetically-designed city? What can be done to ensure that eyesores have no place in this metro? Delhi Times brings you the lowdown on the who and howdunnit of the Capital's architecture.

If you pass by it, you must have turned up your nose at it -- the huge steel girders coming up with no sense of design and aesthetics are ostensibly the Police Memorial. But Delhi's aesthetes are already crying foul over its inappropriate structure and it might soon be pulled down.

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