CITY CENTRE


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	In Here \| Designers \| Visionaries \| The Residency at City Centre THE CENTRE DESIGNERS The City Centre has been designed by Charles Correa, the internationally renowned architect-visionary. Charles Correa, architect, planner, activist and theoretician, has emerged as a major global figure in contemporary architecture. His work includes the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati

Ashram, the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur and the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh, as well as townships and housing projects in Delhi, Bombay, Ahmedabad and other cities in India, Correa has also been Chief Architect for New Bombay and Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization. The Designer Speaks “A City Centre must be a very special place a microcosm of the whole metropolis, catering to multiple land–uses and diverse income profiles a kaleidoscope of contrast and color and energy. Hence we have here in the Salt Lake City Centre a wide range of different sized residencies, entertainment centres, offices, and shops–varying from the smallest dukaans to the most glamorous air-conditioned boutiques and large department stores. These multifarious activities, all arranged in a fine-grained mix, are generated by a complex system of spaces from broad colonnaded public arcades to narrow bazaar gullies to large terraced plazas culminating in the kund in the centre of the complex. Coffee shops and restaurants, strategically placed at pivotal locations, provide opportunities to rest under wide spreading trees and observe the world around you a marvelous tradition, which has always been essential to life in the great city of Kolkata.” - Charles Correa