Tag: World Architecture News Awards 2019

Standing tall at 182 m, the Statue of Unity, the towering structure dedicated to India’s first deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, has entered the prestigious World Architecture News Awards 2019 in the mixed-use category. The World Architecture News Awards described how the statue had been built to withstand a speed of around 180 km/sec and has the ability to endure an earthquake of 6.8 on the Richter scale. Further, the website also mentioned that the statue has the potential to generate thousands of direct jobs for tribal people and in the tourism sector every year. The project’s objective was to ... Read more