Earstwhile Natural History Museum at FICCI – May, 2016

I confirmed with SK, it was (probably) a building by Bhuta, a heritage-unlisted building, and therefore ignored by the Delhi architecture circles. Bhuta’s office has some buildings to name in Delhi and what used to be Bombay, sometimes landscape architects talk about the office’s memorial to ‘that gujju’ M. K. Gandhi.

The building was declared unsafe after a cursory examination by government engineers. It was in any case going to be gutted, nay, sensitively upgraded to contemporary standards and LEED platinum certification, for much the same reason as that scion of Nehruvian modern architecture at Pragati Maidan.

Not a crocodile shed a tear in media, it was heritage-unlisted, and I am glad it ended without appropriation or privatisation.