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World Trade Centre, Mumbai

India

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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The Mumbai World Trade Centre at Cuffe Parade is a skyscraper built in the year 1970. It is the first world trade center in India. It consists of two towers, the M. Visvesaraya Industrial Research and Development Centre (MVIRDC) and the IDBI. MVIRDC is also known as Centre 1. At 155.9 m, the MVIRDC tower was the tallest building in South Asia for nearly four decades, until the completion of Planet Godrej (181 m) in 2009. It was constructed by the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. In 1998, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) commenced air-conditioned bus services connecting the World Trade Centre with the suburb of Andheri. Furthermore, two special buses also plied between Mumbai CSMT and the World Trade Center.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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