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Odisha’s Krushi Bhawan has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award 2019

in State News September 28, 2019 Comments Off on Odisha’s Krushi Bhawan has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award 2019 978 Views

Bhubaneswar:28/9/19: Odisha’s Krushi Bhawan has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Award 2019, informed by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in a tweet on Saturday.

The World Architecture Festival 2019 will be held in Amsterdam from December 4-16, 2019.

The state-of-the-art Krushi Bhawan, a plaza for the farmers and the State Agriculture department, is a three-storey building built over an area of 1,30,000 square feet located at Gopabandhu Marg in Odisha’s Capital city Bhubaneswar.

The Krushi Bhawan houses a learning centre, public library, auditorium, garden, public plaza, display corridors, open theatre and exhibition hall at its ground floor while the offices operate on the upper floors. The building is inspired by the ikat patterns of handlooms while the gardens are designed to showcase the issues of land solutions to agricultural heritage. The rooftop too has been opened up to the public as a demonstration of urban farming.

The garden highlights the use of irrigation channels, rainwater harvesting, soil remediation and organic agricultural practices to improve crop yields. The design features educational art-components and an intensive roof garden.

Designed as a passive-cooled structure with a night purging ventilation system and a high thermal mass, the building exceeds most green building rating parameters.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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