Hurdles behind India's & vertical ambitions
Despite surging urbanisation, booming real estate and ambitious city visions, the country has only one building that towers over the 300-metre mark. Apoorva Mittal traces the limit of our vertical ambitions.Non-profit organisation Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) defines supertalls as buildings that measure at least 300 metres (984 feet). Lokhandwala Minerva in Mumbai is at 301 metres. Completed in 2022, it is India’s first — and so far only — building that crosses the thresh…
