The Brigade Group, as part of its CSR activity, collaborated with The Ugly Indian (TUI) to spruce up one of Bengaluru’s prominent landmarks, the Anand Rao Circle flyover and have finally completed a beautiful work of art.
Working over weekends, the volunteer base, after first cleaning and painting the sides of the flyover, brought in attractive art to its walls in the form of Kudremukh (horse face), as representative of the race course in the vicinity. One part of the flyover overlooks the Holiday Inn Express property. The hotel management was also a part of this social initiative.
Pavitra Shankar, Vice President, Brigade Group, said “This was an initiative as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility. The reason for picking this space for sprucing up was the potential Brigade Hospitality saw in turning this unused area into an active public zone, besides aesthetically painting an important landmark of the city that has hitherto served merely as an eyesore. We hope this initiative will enable public to see the potential of our unused public spaces and traffic islands, dead spaces under the flyovers as well as understand how aesthetically pleasing it is to see public walls filled with art rather than posters and graffiti.”
Incidentally, the design of the horses painted is well thought out and in geometric forms, coined in a manner such that even those who had no clue about art or painting were able to execute the task. The design was also done with future maintenance in perspective. Thus the geometric forms enable easy maintenance and rectification in case of weathering or defacement. The paint used too is weatherproof to last longer.
As part of the second phase, Brigade Group along with Holiday Inn Express, aided TUI to execute the reclaiming of the dead space under the flyover which had been reduced to a garbage dump. TUI had the area first cleared, then hardscaped, with greenery brought in along with seating. “The design here too was done keeping in mind the maintenance of the space once it is completed”, said TUI.
