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Gardens of the Mughals

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2001 Entries for the UNESCO Heritage Awards

The following are the ten entries from south Asia - nine from India and one from Sri Lanka. Winners will be announced in September 2001. 

Indian Entries

2001_entries-amex.jpg (28443 bytes)Lobby and Banking Area of the American Express Bank at the Oriental Building, Mumbai

Restoration of an original 19th c. building interior discovered beneath insensitive 1970s design during routine renovation

 

 

2001_entries-dbs_house.jpg (35197 bytes)DBS House, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Restoration of brick façade of 1895 residence long used as office space, coupled with upgrade/restoration of interior spaces and building services

 

 

2001_entries-mg_house.jpg (6381 bytes)House of MG (Mangaldas Girdhardas), Ahmedabad City, Gujarat State

Conversion of historic family residence to multi-faceted entertainment center

 

2001_entries-krishna_temple.jpg (6050 bytes)Krishan Temple, Village Kishankot, District Gurdaspur, Punjab

Conservation of 1830s Hindu temple housing one of the finest wall paintings for Kangra tradition and Sikh School of Art as part of project highlighting the tradition of exchanges and understanding between diverse communities

 

2001_entries-library.jpg (7564 bytes)Restoration of the Library Building at Fort Campus, University of Mumbai

Complete restoration of one of Mumbai's landmark buildings in one of the country's first projects to restore a public building using internationally accepted principles and methodologies of conservation

 

2001_entries-fort_walls.jpg (4751 bytes)Traditional Waadas and Fort Walls of Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh

Restoration and structural damage repair on traditional houses and walls of a fort complex

 

2001_entries-neemrana.jpg (31144 bytes)Neemrana Fort - Palace, Rajasthan

Reconstruction, conservation and adaptive reuse of palace ruins, dating fro 1464, to self-sustaining heritage tourism property while encouraging local economic development

 

 

2001_entries-siolim_house.jpg (17466 bytes)Siolim House, Goa

Full restoration of deteriorated, 17th century Indo-Portuguese style Goan manor house in the 'cha' style using only traditional materials (Siolim House home page)

 

2001_entries-_thengal_jorhat.jpg (4034 bytes)Thengal, Jorhat

Restoration of seventy-one year old ancestral home of pioneer tea planters, now open for guests

 

Sri Lankan entry

2001_entries-teafactory_srilanka.jpg (6586 bytes)The Tea Factory Hotel, Kandapola

Conversion of an abandoned 1935 tea factory, the most predominant building type in Ceylon's hill country, to a hotel incorporating many industrial heritage elements in the décor

 

_______Source: UNESCO_______



For more information visit
http://www.unescobkk.org/culture/heritageawards/index.shtml

 

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