India has three of world's five best airports: report

[Water Car Engineer]

That airport looks like its from Bhutan, not India.

That's a part of Kerala's architecture.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

explain this hand symbol?

 

[Soumitra]

explain this hand symbol?

Indian industrial design firm Incubis Consultants, and U.S.-based branding company Landor Associates shaped the artistic choices for the terminal and settled upon the idea of the hands, which were made and installed by Jaipur-based designer Ayush Kasliwal. Here are edited excerpts from a conversation with Incubis head Amit Gulati.:

IRT: How did you come up with the design?

Gulati: It was a bit of a team effort. There was a lot of brainstorming done on it. This artwork is part of a larger process of creating design installations and graphics within the terminal. It’s the largest, so it’s hogged all the limelight.

GMR has built a pretty world-class infrastructure over here. All airports have very similar design vocabulary. They are actually machines. They tend to evolve in a similar glass and metallic fashion. Very early on they were keen to give the terminal an Indian context and infuse it with Indian values. The basic positioning we created for the terminal was “Expressive India.” All classical Indian dance forms use mudras [hand gestures]. It’s a common vocabulary.

IRT: So it’s not a Hindu-themed piece? It looked a little religious to us.

Gulati: That was an important consideration. We have deliberately avoided any religious motif [in the hand gestures chosen]. They represent an open-ended symbology rather than a religious philosophy. I would say the mudras are not really Hindu in themselves. They represent them in Buddhist art, Southeast Asian art uses the same kind of mudras.It also ties in with the whole idea of yoga, which is again very global. Yoga also has religious undertones but it’s perceived as a secular thing.

Q&A: Delhi Airport's 'Hands' Sculpture at Terminal 3 - India Real Time - WSJ

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Turk guests will find it amusing

It's a very obscene gesture in Turkiye

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Imagine if there was a middle finger mundra for the guests.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Imagine if there was a middle finger mundra for the guests.

Or how about Kama sutra sculptures.

Everyone will miss their flight or cause delays

 

[Master Blaster]

Beautiful....

 

[Master Blaster]

Imagine if there was a middle finger mundra for the guests.

hey ask to your high official maybe they will feel the middle finger and you get your desired answer

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Who are the contractors for these projects? All local groups or some foreign?

Some good pictures; especially the Rajiv wala airport. Looks very much up to par with today's standards

 

[jbond197]

No offence but this airport looks more like a railway station

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Smaller cities have been getting touch ups as well.

No offence but this airport looks more like a railway station

I dont like it either, so none taken.

Srinagar's airport looks better than Kochis. And it's much smaller.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

I have found the worst looking airport in India.....

Once the capital of the Nanda, Maurya, Gupta, Pala empires. With a 1000 years of glory.....

Patna(Pataliputra)

 

[Bang Galore]

No offence but this airport looks more like a railway station

That makes an assumption that an airport has to look like other airports. Not necessarily the case. In any event, why can't a bus stand and an airport look similar. I know many central Bus stands in Karnataka now resembles airports.

Here is an similar airport in Siem Reap Cambodia, one of the most used airports in SE Asia(Angkor Wat)

Turk guests will find it amusing

It's a very obscene gesture in Turkiye

In which case, they will find it amusing all across SE Asia where I have even seen door handles shaped like that. Btw....all South East Asian dancing will also probably be amusing to the same lot.

 

[jbond197]

That makes an assumption that an airport has to look like other airports. Not necessarily the case. In any event, why can't a bus stand and an airport look similar. I know many central Bus stands in Karnataka now resembles airports.

Come on dude, An Airport is a modern form of transportation so it should at the least have modern facilities, if not the looks. That airport had neither!! We can not expect tourism to rise if we don't have world class facilities at the entry points of the country!!

I, no where, was intending to run those Airports down but trying to point that when all the Tier 1 Airports are getting a face lift then it will not hurt if we start looking at giving face lifts to teir 2, tier 3 airports as well. More than getting a facelift, it will generate employment to the youth as well.. Dual benefits so I think its not a bad deal..

 

[chinapakistan]

India...Indian...indian media...and Indian airport what can I say? The only thing they are good at is self praising, nothing else.
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