ART DECO buildings in Mumbai – believed to be the world’s second largest collection after Miami – were added last Saturday (30) to Unesco’s World Heritage List alongside the city’s Victorian Gothic architecture. The decision was approved at a Unesco meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama. A not-for-profit team of enthusiasts is documenting each of Mumbai’s Art Deco treasures, which they estimate may be more than 200 across the city. The majority of them, built on reclaimed land between the early 1930s and early 1950s, are clustered together in the south of the coastal city, where they stand in stark…
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