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
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