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India's US $ 1 billion university, the world's oldest
Allies & Morrison, Snohetta and Maki & Associates have lost out to a renowned Gujarati practice in a $1 billion competition to design a new campus for Indias most ancient university.
The competition to masterplan and design Nalanda International University in Bihar was won by Vastu Shilpa Consultants wich was founded by 85-year-old Balkrishna Doshi who worked with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad.
Judges, who visited the site in north-east India last week, included architects Liu Thai Ker of Singapore, Li Xiaodong of China, Osamu Ishiyama of Japan and Neelkanth Chhaya of India.
The ancient Buddhist university at Nalanda existed from the fifth to the end of the 12th century and was home to more than 10,000 students from as far as Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey.
Its library was so large it was said to have burnt for three months when the university was sacked and destroyed by iconoclastic Muslim invaders in 1193.
The new university will be built on a 180ha site some 10km from the ruins of the original brick campus. It will be fully residential like the original.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/indian-master-beats-allies-and-morrison-and-snohetta-in-$1bn-university-competition/5054315.article
Its good to know that we are rebuilding the oldest university with the US$ 1 billion project.
Allies & Morrison, Snohetta and Maki & Associates have lost out to a renowned Gujarati practice in a $1 billion competition to design a new campus for Indias most ancient university.
The competition to masterplan and design Nalanda International University in Bihar was won by Vastu Shilpa Consultants wich was founded by 85-year-old Balkrishna Doshi who worked with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad.
Judges, who visited the site in north-east India last week, included architects Liu Thai Ker of Singapore, Li Xiaodong of China, Osamu Ishiyama of Japan and Neelkanth Chhaya of India.
The ancient Buddhist university at Nalanda existed from the fifth to the end of the 12th century and was home to more than 10,000 students from as far as Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey.
Its library was so large it was said to have burnt for three months when the university was sacked and destroyed by iconoclastic Muslim invaders in 1193.
The new university will be built on a 180ha site some 10km from the ruins of the original brick campus. It will be fully residential like the original.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/indian-master-beats-allies-and-morrison-and-snohetta-in-$1bn-university-competition/5054315.article
Its good to know that we are rebuilding the oldest university with the US$ 1 billion project.