A decade from now

Updated on: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Anto Gloren and Sayali Athale, Pune, foresee the Indian cities of 2020 as sociable and humane. Sayali (a final year student at Marathwada Mitramandal’s College of Architecture, Pune, currently interning at the INTACH office in Puducherry) and Anto (who graduated from the same college and is now working on various industrial and office projects in collaboration with two other architects) were part of the HP Skyline Contest where young architects sent their creative entries to express their vision of an Indian city skyline in 2020. Mugdha Mankikar, Apurva Darwhekar and Vinay Sonone, other students who participated in the contest suggested an interesting design with a non-planner mathematical approach.

These and many other ideas were floated at the online design contest, Skyline 2020. The contest invited applications from fourth and final year students and practicing architects, urban designers and planners across India. The entries were judged on creativity, including originality, presentation, inspiration and execution, and community vision covering environmental sustainability, local relevance and future city planning vision.

Considering the growth of the architecture industry in India, the role of architects is constantly evolving. “The contest was our bid to help these young minds get the technical tools and resources and help them engage early in their careers to work on solutions to upcoming demands,” said Guayente Sanmartin, Director-Designjet Business, HP Asia Pacific & Japan.

A decade from now

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