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Flora Fountain facelift

A team of Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) engineers and conservation architects has solved a British era plumbing riddle to revive the 38 ft high iconic Flora Fountain structure in South Bombay. "As a conservation architect in practice for the past 26 years I am quite adequately experienced to handle buildings and structures, but dealing with a water fountain is a completely different ball game as it has several complexities…water engineering, the restoration of the troughs, pointing and missing details of sculpture and its cleaning with help of conservators,” conservation architect Vikas Dilawari shared in an email with Parsiana. He told......



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