India: Sparks fly over restoration of historic Delhi hub

Posted by FFW on Friday, September 5, 2008

An £85m redevelopment of Connaught Place, the historic commercial centre designed for imperial Delhi by the British Raj architect Robert Tor Russel, has run into a storm of criticism just as the first phase has been completed.

The restoration of the first of Connaught Place’s colonnaded neo-Paladian buildings was completed in August under the urban renewal project, which is due to be finished by July 2010. But the work has faced criticism from conservation architects as well as local traders… moore from The Guardian.co.uk

Via Maseeh Rahman in Delhi
The Guardian, Thursday September 4 2008