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Iudgement numbered blocks ofnumbered stages in any givenresidential area. The viewof avanguard city can appear most chaotic, especially in clueless pedestrian perceptions. The difference that Srinivasan's looking to make, with two other architects - Nandita Srinivas and Kiran Venkatesh - who form the think tank at Incite, is to get average citizens (the non-architects especially) to be a bit more informed about the city that's being raised in concrete and glass constructions. "The architecture ofa city closely reflects its culture," said Srinivas. "And has moved on from its colonial origins to newer architecturalvocabularies." "Someone needs to document the architectural cuiture ofthis city," added Srinivasan. At the exhibiti on 080 Transform, supported by architeclural firms DanPalon and \\rienerberger, Incite will present their perspective on the grou.th of a metropolis in rhree segments the past, rvith a collection of phorographs b1'C1are -\rni ofbuildings from '9)s. rhe the present. rvith panels on projects completed in thenervmillennium, and the future, rl-ith models of upcoming and planned constructions. The buildings chosen for the Hall's well (- R) Victoria Hotel and Bangal.ore Club "present" segmentareallbracketedas "non- The exh ibitio n O8O Tra n sfo rm horizon. Atthefinal junction, rriththe park residential architectural projects", so there are no high-rise apartment blocks, or even ancient takes a close look atthe city's around the Gandhi statue outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium onyourright, and bungalows. The list of projects thatwill be changi ng arch itectural I andscape, Queen Victoria's statue that was installed in discussed includes skuctures like the Bethel findsJaideepSen. 1906 outside what is now ca11ed Baptist Church in Vivek Nagar, commercial and was initially Meade's Park dating back to complexes likeHalcyon onStMark's Road, the "Look at the giveyou waypeople directions the year 1870 in front of you, make a left onto National Assessment & Accreditation Council nowadays," said architect Nithya Srinivasan at . Head down this road to where Campus in and the Unilever the Incite centre for contemporary architecture, you'll find the '60s-era Visvesvaraya Museum Research Centre in Whitefield, among others. in . By way of an example, on your right, across the road from where is a Ifyou were to bring up the aspect ofthe Srinivasan said, "Imagine you were looking to narrow cross, with a 1ittle blue signboard. . . " many IT parks around the city, many of the get House, is to to Sua which right next British Street directions can be quite depressing for mails, and even UB City on Vittal Mallya Library on Kasturba Cross Road, from MG an architect; that for Srinjvasan is an Road, as structures that don't rea11y include Road. You'd most 1ike1y then be asked to get to indication ofhow ignorant people are about architectural elements that would identify as the end of MG Road, make a left at the Cubbon landmark edifices and structures that they're Bangalorean, or from , or for that Parkjunction onto Kasturba Road, head about surrounded by. Being informed about the matter as Indian, the Incite think tankwill 500metres down and lookoutfor a little blue streets around you could, in some ways, be like concur. "Most of these new structures are very signboard on the 1eft, which says 'British art appreciation, she said, "where you're modern, and modelledalongthe lines of g1obal Library', where you need to makea left." looking atstreet corners or evenjustblank destinations (1ike Singapore and Malaysia)," While that would certainly get you to where wal1s" notjust ina manner of blindlywalking explained Srinivasan. "But there's clearly no you need to get to, Srinivasan's looking at how past them. Especially in the context of conscious intention ofretaining a 1oca1 dry such regular references can be. There's Bangalore, a city that's on the brink of identity. And that's why they're not in here." hardly a likelihood that you'd chance upon transforming into a truly giobal metropolis, 080 Transform u.till include interaction s toith directions that go: "Carry on up MG Road with where urban landscapes are sti11 defined in arckitects, design dialogues, and conducted the neo-Dravidian architectural landmark of terms of numbered streets, off numbered main ualks tkrowgh the cit1. See Exhibitions in ArL the Vidhana Soudha bang ahead on the roads often defined by their width, in Ako see Other lreuietos in Around Toan.

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