Goa culture minister Govind Gaude said the Kala Academy, designed by celebrated architect Charles Correa, has a faulty design and insisted that told the foundation started by the architect to not interfere in its renovation

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Charles Correa’s daughter Nondita Correa Mehrotra, who is also director of the foundation, said the building was in need of repairs but “the lack of transparency” in what is being planned was troubling.1

• 1. “The architecture is not just the walls, the roof or the ceiling, it’s everything. The design of it is all the finishes, the colours you choose, where you choose to put the murals. If we start changing everything else and just keep the walls and the slab, it’s not going to be the same design. It’s not going to have the same ambience at all,” she said.[/fn

  The minister hit back, insisting the iconic building had a ‘faulty design’ and that the foundation set up by Charles Correa was no longer a stakeholder who needed to be consulted at the time of renovation.

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  Foundation convener Tahir Noronha said that while in the past too renovations brought about changes, this was an opportunity to restore the original.“Already in the past, artwork has been changed. Charles had ideas to use colours which were very earthy to represent Goa’s tambdi mati (red mud). Mario Miranda Murals -- there are only seven murals of Mario Miranda in the world. Mario Miranda is no longer with us. It’s impossible to replicate them now. The auditorium is the only auditorium in India that is designed by Bolt Beranek and Newman,” Noronha said.