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The '''Air India Building''' is a 23-storey commercial tower on [[Marine Drive, Mumbai|Marine Drive]] in [[Nariman Point]], [[Mumbai]], India. The building served as the corporate headquarters for the Indian national airline, [[Air India]], up to 2013. There are at least {{convert|10800|sqft|m2}} of space on each floor of the building. In February 2013, Air India officially vacated the building as part of its asset-monetisation plan, and shifted its corporate office to New Delhi. The Indian Airlines House was chosen as the airline's new headquarters. However, the airline still retains the 21st, 22nd and 23rd floors in the building.<ref name="new air India building. proof">{{cite web|title=Air India vacates Nariman Point; moves headquarters to Delhi|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-02-15/news/37100980_1_air-india-nariman-point-moves-headquarters|publisher=The Economic Times|accessdate=16 February 2013|author=Anindya Upadhyay|author2=ET Bureau|year=2013}}</ref>

==History==
[[John Burgee]] of the New York City architectural firm [[Johnson/Burgee]] designed the building.<ref>Lang, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gxyGbhlKQXQC&pg=PA89&dq=%22Air+India+Building%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PEglUeTFA4yy8QT69YCgAw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Air%20India%20Building%22&f=false 89]. "The Nariman Point area of Mumbai has become the city's new Central Business District. It contains a prestigious core area and a more crowded area of standard office buildings with somewhat differing façades. The former contains the Air India Building designed by John Burgee (b. 1933) of Johnson/Burgee in New York"</ref> The Air India Building was completed in 1974, and is owned by the airline. It occupies one of Mumbai's choicest real estate locations in Nariman Point. Located on Marine Drive, facing the [[Arabian Sea]], the building is a landmark on Mumbai's skyline with the airline's trademark [[centaur]] icon on its top. The centrally air-conditioned building was the first in India to have an [[escalator]], carrying customers from the street-level to the airline's main booking office.<ref name=md-ghost>{{cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/jun/040611-Air-India-building-Nariman-Point-vacant-ghost-town.htm|title=Air India's Rs 80-cr-a-year ghost town|publisher=Mid Day|date=4 June 2011|accessdate=2011-09-03}}</ref> It initially had 30 companies as tenants, now it has only 2.<ref name="SBI DGS lease AIB" /> The Air India building was one of several high rises including [[Express Towers]] and the [[Oberoi Trident Towers|Oberoi Sheraton]] that came up at Nariman Point, a 64-acre reclamation from the sea which was initiated as a project to ease the housing crisis in Mumbai but was later auctioned off in plots to various companies. Air India once hung a board on this building, its new headquarters, that said “Nariman had a point and we’re on it!”.<ref>{{cite book|last=Prakash|first=Gyan|title=Mumbai Fables|year=2010|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, New Jersey|page=274|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&q=Nariman+had+a+point+and+we%27re+on+it+air+india&pg=PA274|isbn=978-1400835942}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Salmi|first=Charlotta|title=Mumbai Revisited|journal=The Oxonian Review|issue=4|url=http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mumbai-revisited/|accessdate=14 May 2013|date=29 November 2010|volume=14}}</ref>

The building was one of the targets of the [[1993 Bombay bombings]]. A [[car bomb]] exploded in the afternoon on 12 March 1993 in the basement garage of the building.<ref name=bbc-19930312>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/newsid_4272000/4272943.stm|title=Bombay hit by devastating bombs|publisher=BBC|date=12 March 1993|accessdate=2011-09-03}}</ref> 20 people were killed in the attack and the offices of the Bank of Oman located above the garage were destroyed.<ref>{{cite news|title=200 Killed, 1,100 Hurt as 13 Bomb Blasts Rock Bombay : India: Explosions target stock exchange, airline headquarters and hotels. No one claims responsibility.|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-13/news/mn-10483_1_bombay-stock-exchange|accessdate=14 May 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 13, 1993}}</ref> In 2007, Farooq Pawale was convicted and sentenced to death for planting the bomb that led to 20 deaths and injured nearly 100 others.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Katakam|first=Anupama|title=On death row|journal=Frontline|date=July–August 2007|volume=24|issue=15|url=http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2415/stories/20070810511213000.htm|accessdate=14 May 2013}}</ref>

===2010s===
During June 2011, the ground floor was occupied by [[Tata Consultancy Services]], and [[Air India]] occupied 7 floors and 15 floors lay empty.<ref name=md-ghost/> Air India started planning to move the Headquarters of Air India to Delhi, where the rent is cheaper.<ref name="businesstoday.intoday">{{cite news|title=Air India crisis: IPO may turn the tide of Maharaja|url=http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/air-india-crisis-ipo-may-turn-carriers-fortunes/1/185278.html|accessdate=14 May 2013|newspaper=Business Today|date=June 9, 2012}}</ref> The Air India Building was then expected to be sold for Rs 20 billion or leased for {{INR}}660 million every year.<ref name="businesstoday.intoday" /> By January 2013 Air India continued to occupy six floors of the building.<ref>Upadhyay, Anindya. "[http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-02-15/news/37100980_1_air-india-nariman-point-moves-headquarters Air India vacates Nariman Point; moves headquarters to Delhi]." ''[[The Economic Times|Economic Times]]''. 15 February 2013. Retrieved on 20 February 2013.</ref> The office of the chairperson remained in the Air India Building.<ref>Phadnis, Aneesh. "[http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/air-india-shifts-headquarter-to-delhi-113021400926_1.html Air India shifts headquarter to Delhi]." ''[[Business Standard]]''. 14 February 2013. Retrieved on 20 February 2013.</ref> Moreover, it has offices of Service Tax & Income Tax under Ministry of Finance.

===Air India head office move===
In February 2013, Air India board gave a formal approval to the proposal to shift its headquarters from Mumbai to Delhi, leasing out vacant space in the building. However, the chairman's office was still retained in the Air India building itself. Air India struck a deal with [[State Bank of India]] to lease out four floors in the building and expected to earn {{INRConvert|10|b}} by March 2014 through the monetisation of its property. Air India chairman Rohit Nandan said that only three floors in the building will be retained by Air India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Air India shifts headquarter to Delhi|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/air-india-shifts-headquarter-to-delhi-113021400926_1.html|publisher=Business Standard|accessdate=20 February 2013}}</ref> Later, the Indian Directorate General of Shipping decided to lease another three floors in the building.<ref name="SBI DGS lease AIB" />

==References==

* Lang, Jon T. ''Concise History of Modern Architecture: in India''. [[Orient Blackswan]], 1 August 2002. {{ISBN|8178240173}}, 9788178240176.

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[[Category:Air India]]
[[Category:Office buildings completed in 1974]]
[[Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Mumbai]]
[[Category:John Burgee buildings]]
[[Category:Airline headquarters]]
[[Category:Headquarters in India]]

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