Fishy tales, water features and fourth-floor lawns
Some of India’s stadiums have had some surprising design features. In Delhi there is an entire stand that appears to be drunk, and most of the media centre is off limits to media or indeed anyone else, thanks to the extraordinary amount of space occupied by the most inexplicable of fourth-floor water features, a babbling fountain surrounded by a generous lawn of plastic grass. In Bengaluru they have a random fish-containing device – fishtank would definitely underplay it, but aquarium might be a bit over the top – built into a column of the clubhouse, while just around the corner is their tribute to Rahul Dravid, the Indian opener popularly known as The Wall. It is a wall.
