The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium has been included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch to draw attention to the complex challenges of preserving not only an iconic twentieth-century modern structure, but an emblematic public space for the people of Ahmedabad.
About Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium
The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, located in the heart of Ahmedabad, represents the progressive ideals and experimental spirit that characterized India’s post-independence period.
Designed in the 1960s by renowned architect Charles Correa and engineer Mahendra Raj, the stadium is part of a larger constellation of structures built in Ahmedabad by a generation of local and international architects who helped create a new architectural language in India.
Those structures include the Sanskar Kendra Museum and Mill Owners’ Association Headquarters designed by Le Corbusier, the Indian Institute of Management designed by Louis Kahn, the Tagore Memorial Hall and the Amdavad ni Gufa art gallery designed by Balkrishna Doshi, and the Gujarat High Court Building designed by Bimal Patel.
According to the World Monument Fund, this collection of buildings illustrates the cultural and economic importance of Ahmedabad following partition of the State of Bombay in the 1960s.
