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Why stop at 250-storeys, Mr CM?
Written By murali772 - 2 June, 2009
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A world-class 200-250 storey building and a garden around it. That is what may come up on the Bangalore Turf Club land. Yeddyurappa envisaged this structure during the Vikasa Sanaklp Utsav.
“We have ordered Bangalore Turf Club to shift base. There is no need to hold races a stone’s throw away from Vidhana Soudha. We are thinking of having a 200-250 storey building, which will be world famous. The remaining space can be developed as a garden,” he explained.
The government has identified land on the outskirts and the Turf Club will have to move by December-end this year.
For the full text, which appeared in yesterday's TOI, please click here
When earlier I read about the 45-storey complex being planned by BMTC at the Majestic bus stand (check here ), was when I first began feeling that namma Bengaluru was finally arriving on the international scene. Now, this is really going to take us right up there!
What makes a city international are not the achievements of its industry (Infosys, Wipro, Biocon, etc), or those of ISRO, or academic institutions like IISc, IIIT, etc. Those are all passe'. What really denotes a city's coming of age are its buildings, the taller the better, and along with it, the multitude of cars (don't we owe it to TATA's to give them some business, now that they have bought over Land-Rover and Jaguar?), wide roads, under/over-passes, fly-overs, elevated high-ways, and what have you.
Heritage, a few thousand trees are all old-world talk. We don't have time for all that. We are now a modern city, and heading to become numero uno. And, nothing is going to stop us! Jai Karnataka! Jai Bengaluru! Jai Yeddyurappa!
But, the question I would like to ask the CM avaru is why stop at 250? The tallest man-made structure presently is Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in Dubai that reached 818 m (2,684 ft) in height on 17 January 2009. Now, at an average of 12 ft per floor, Bengaluru's pride is going to be 3,000 ft, which will then make it the tallest building in the world. But, the problem is that there are others in this world who are equally ambitious, and it will not be long before, we are again humbled by some upstart. So, why not take it to say 5,000 ft, which is going to take some doing to catch up?
PS: Some 'idiots' had the audacity to suggest all kinds of things in place of the race course - check here . But, what the heck! Who wants any of those kinds of regressive suggestions, anyway?
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
SOS - PIL and a NO CONFIDENCE MOTION...
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 2 June, 2009 - 07:55
F*******C (Fantastic) ^&*(*&
After reading this, my BP has gone up. I will come back for a comment later. Interalia, once upon a time we had a Germal Ruler.... I will come back later.
If the Race Course is sitting on a lake bed, then it is all the more convenient to create a mini organic forest as contemplated in the link below:
- Vasanth Mysoremath
mcadambi - 2 June, 2009 - 06:38
What a disgusting taste. Sir Ananda Coomaraswamy once famously remarked that nations are not made by it's businessmen or politicians, but by it's artists.
Even tough i am a BJP supporter, the honourable CM has lost his aesthetics!
B'lore, one among the world's 25 riskiest places for offshoring
poowonder - 2 June, 2009 - 06:44
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/8_Indian_cities_in_worlds_25_riskiest_offshoring_locations-nid-57477.html
Regards,Poornima.
pdk - 2 June, 2009 - 06:52
And the new Environment Minister has said that the environment won't be a stumbling block on the path to 'development'.
We have to take the path the 'developed' world took. Later we'll see about the side-effects.
srinidhi - 2 June, 2009 - 07:18
its also in news that the alternate land that has been allotted to the BTC is actually on a lake bed..and there are no env clearences for it yet..
btw whos gonna build the 250 stories?? who has the money?
Did anyone say..what happened to HSRL to airport??
BS...Y only talks and talks and talks..
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