A new technology, reinforced cement concrete, made all this construction quick and cheap. Movie houses, many built by American movie companies like MGM, glamorized the new aesthetic.
School of Art and Architecture, and as a backdrop of the freedom movement. The choice could be seen as a form of resistance, said Mustansir Dalvi, professor at the Sir J. These architects broke with the British Raj’s ornate Victorian Gothic and Indo-Saracenic styles for the latest international trend - described by a leading British architect as “the nudist movement in our profession” - while adapting it to the local environment. “But we also had one of the richest collections of Deco in the world.” “Everyone always talked about CST,” said Atul Kumar, referring to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the city’s other Unesco site, a magnificent and much-Instagrammed Victorian Gothic railway station.
The tag was the result of a 10-year campaign led by heritage activists and local resident groups, one that reflects a growing celebration of Mumbai’s Art Deco architecture - even as it is vanishing under the wrecking ball. The Art Deco buildings on Marine Drive, together with those on the blocks along the nearby park Oval Maidan, were recognized last year by Unesco as part of a World Heritage site, a distinction that is expected to help preserve and promote the neighborhood. Every evening, crowds swarm Marine Drive, the iconic waterfront on the southern tip of Mumbai, India’s financial capital.įew of the families and tourists who are out taking in the air stop to look back at the low-rise apartment blocks that line the avenue - a cityscape Salman Rushdie described in the novel “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” as “a glittering Art Deco sweep … not even Rome could boast.”
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