Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Designer Market for New Town, Rajarhat

In September, we had published an Expression of Interest inviting applications for participating in a creative design competition for local neighbourhood market in Action Area -I. The entries were judged by a panel headed by Shri Partha Das, Principal Consultant, HIDCO. The results have been finalised. The winning competition for one category is as follows:


This is what I'd written in my Sep 14 blog post:
"... In today's Times of India, we have published an advertisement asking for designs from Architects through a competition. There will be two plots and two separate competitions, both are located in Action Area I of New Town..
I have Delhi Haat or Dakshinapan in mind. But local open markets here are very small - about 20 kottahs or so. This is meant for getting daily groceries, vegetable, fish etc : we are not looking at glass facaded shopping malls. We want fresh open friendly neighbourhood market but with a bit of creativity added, a bit of originality.
Hence the competition and call from young and talented architects.Winner will get Rs 50,000 reward for one, and Rs 60,000 for the other..."

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5 comments:

  1. AvickOctober 13, 2011 at 12:27 PM

    Looks great from outside....I hope inside looks is as smart as outside. Planning on parking (separate for buyers and commercial goods carriers), hygiene, security, waste disposal, drainage, ventilation, goods transit/handling (do not want to step out of another fish/veg market with bottom of trouser muddy or wet or folded and nose covered with handkerchief!), colocation of shops based on similar products etc. should be some other priority factors for consideration apart from users' convenience, and affordability.

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  2. ArunMOctober 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    Looks Great, Sir ! Reminds me of Salt Lake's markets in Sector 1 in the 80s.

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  3. UnknownOctober 13, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    i thought we'd moved from the 80s, though :)

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  4. ArunMOctober 14, 2011 at 4:25 AM

    Sure we have, no doubts about that. I was only reminiscing about the similarity between Salt Lake then and New Town now.

    Keep the blogging going, we look forward to your posts !

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  5. UnknownApril 19, 2012 at 10:05 PM

    Today (Thursday 19th April 2012), the prizes and Rs 50,000 were given by Mr Firhad Hakim, Minister to the two winners. The occasion was the First Residnts' Meet, organised at New Town. The work has already started.

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