INDO-SARACENIC

ARCHITECTURE ON INDIAN

RAILWAYS APHTRO CONFERENCE

NEW DELHI

21ST OCTOBER 2016

ARCHITECTURAL STYLES

ON INDIAN RAILWAYS

NEO-CLASSICAL

ROMANESQUE

GOTHIC REVIVAL

INDO-SARCENIC

EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

MODERN

ART-DECO

INDO SARACENIC

FEATURES

BULBOUS DOMES

DOMED KIOSKS & PAVILIONS

TOWERS & MINARETS

ORNAMENTAL GRILLES

HAREM WINDOWS

BRACKETS

ARCHITECTS WHO WERE MAJOR

PROPONENTS OF INDO-SARACENIC

STYLE

HENRY IRWIN

ROBERT FELLOWES CHISHOLM

CHARLES MANT

VINCENT ESCH

FREDRICK WILLIAM STEVENS

BB&CI GENERAL OFFICES - 1899 (NOW WESTERN RAILWAY HEAD OFFICE, MUMBAI)

BB&CI GENERAL OFFICES

PROMINENT DOMES

USE OF PORBANDAR & DHRANGADHRA STONE

BASE BELOW DOME

MEDALLIONS

STATUE OF ENGINEERING

FOLIATED CAPITALS

USE OF MAWS TILES

BB&CI GENERAL OFFICES (NOW WESTERN RAILWAY HEADQUARTERS)

EGMORE STATION, CHENNAI -1908

EGMORE

INFLUENCED BY HENRY IRWIN

DOMES ON A RECTANGULAR BASE

FRIEZES

BRACKETS & MOULDINGS

FIRST FLOOR ARCADE

THE BOOKING OFFICE ORNAMENTATION

PLATFORM COVER

COMPARISION WITH CHARING CROSS

EGMORE STATION THIRD CLASS WAITING HALL

M&SM RAILWAY HEAD OFFICE -1922 (NOW SOUTHERN RAILWAY HEADQUARTERS, CHENNAI)

M&SM HEAD OFFICE - 1922

ARCHITECT N.GRAYSON

DESIGN BASED ON ‘DRAVIDIAN’

BUILDINGS

USE OF ‘PALLAVARAM’GRANITE IN PLINTH

PORBANDAR STONE FOR EXTERNAL WALLS

REINFORCED CONCRETE – FLOORS & ROOF

CONSPICUOUS MAIN STAIRWELL

OCTAGONAL DOME, LANTERNS, CURVED

MOULDINGS

LUCKNOW STATION - 1926

LUCKNOW - 1926

ARCHITECT JOHN HANNIMAN

PROMINENT DOMED PAVILLIONS

LARGE POINTED ARCHES

DISTINCTIVE PORCH

MAGNIFICENT CIRCULATING HALL

RANGE OF PASSENGER AMENITIES

SUBWAY LINKING PLATFORMS

LUCKNOW STATION (CHARBAGH STATION – ORIGINAL DRAWING)

KACHEGUDA STATION

KACHEGUDA

ARCHITECT VINCENT ESCH

USE OF VIJAYANAGAR BRACKETS

BOLD PERFORATIONS ABOVE THE ARCH

USE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

DELICATE GRILLE DESIGN

TURRETS AND TOWERS

USE OF BASIC LINES FOR ARTISTIC

EMBELISHMENT

KANPUR STATION - 1930

KANPUR CENTRAL STATION

RIBBED DOMES

PAVILLIONS & KIOSKS

ORNAMENTAL GRILLES

DECORATIVE BALCONIES

PROMINENT FINIAL

USE OF THE POINTED ARCH

PRINCELY

STATES

MORVI STATION

GUNA STATION

MALERKOTLA – 1905

RAMPUR SALOON SIDING

CONCLUSION

A RICH ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

NEED FOR CONSERVATION

ENCOURAGE EDUCATION IN APPRECIATING

ARCHITECTURE

COMBINE VISITS TO RAILWAY INSTALLATIONS WITH NOTABLE BUILDINGS

ARCHITECTURE A NICHE TOURIST SEGMENT

PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THIS

AREA

THANK YOU