6. CONSTRUCTION PHASES
FIRST
PHASE
(1777-1778)
SECOND
PHASE
(1820-1821)
• Designed as barracks to
provide accommodation to
the john company's ‘writers’.
• A three storied structure .
• A long veranda being
added on the south front
and two small pediments
on columns by lord
wellesley.
• And a better ornamented
façade (by capt. George
lindsay).
7. ROTUNDA GEORGIA
N ROOFS
DORIC PEDIMENTED ENTRANCES
MINERVA STATUES
IONIC COLUMNS
ITALIAN GRECIAN FONTAGE
NEOCLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE
THIRD PHASE- complete re-
modelling of the front façade by
E.J. Martin(1877-1905)
9. ENGLAND IN 1700S
• 1729 – East India House,
Leadenhall St., London
• STYLE- Neoclassical
• 1734- Bank of England ,
Threadneedle street, London
• STYLE- Neoclassical
20. Steel Dome installed in1860s by the Viceroy Lord Elgin.
Lord Curzon brought electricity and lift ( Bird Cage Lift ).
21.
22.
23.
24. Drawing and dining rooms.
Yellow Drawing Room: first floor , has wonderful paintings.
Blue Drawing Room: Elegantly furnished room used by the governor to meet guest.
Brown Dining Room: Adjacent to the Blue Dining room, it is used for small
conferences and meetings.
Halls and banquet rooms
Throne Room: The Throne Room, as the name suggests, contains the throne
of Wellesley. It also contains an Urn used to carry Mahatma Gandhi's ashes.
Council Chamber.
The Marble Hall : Located on the ground floor of the Raj Bhavan, this is used for state
and private meetings.
The Banquet Hall : The Banquet Hall with rows of Doric pillars on each side, flowering
chandeliers and black Mahogany tables has entertained eminent guests like Queen
Elizabeth.
26. INDIAN MUSEUM
1875
by WALTER L. B. GRANVILLE
KOLKATA
“an Italianate palace ...
around a colonnaded
courtyard” ~ Jan Morris
27. SOCIO-CULTURAL
• Beginning of a significant epoch initiating the socio-
cultural and scientific achievements of the country.
•
Beginning of modernity and end of medieval era
46. STYLE
• Indo Saracenic Revival
Architecture -
Architectural style movement
by British architects in the
late 19th century in British
India. It drew elements from
native Indo-
Islamic and Indian
architecture, and combined it
with the Gothic
revival and neo-classical
styles favoured in Victorian
Britain.
47. FEATURES • onion (bulbous) domes
• overhanging eaves
• pointed arches,
cusped arches, or
scalloped arches
• Colonnaded area on
both sides
• Domed kiosks and
many miniature domes
• domed chhatris
• pinnacles
• towers or minarets
• Use of Makrana marble
50. GARDEN
• Total area of 64 acre with the building covering an area of 338sq.Ft by 228 sq.Ft.
• On way to the north gate is a bronze statue of Queen Victoria by Sir George
Frampton.The Queen is seated on her throne, wearing the robes of the Star of
India.
• Approaching the building from the south, visitors pass the King Edward VII
memorial arch with a bronze equestrian statue of the King by Sir Bertram
Mackennal surmounting it and a marble statue of Lord Curzon by F.W. Pomeroy,
R.A.
• There are also other statues of various dignitaries like Lord Bentinck, Governor-
General of India (1828-1835), Lord Ripon (Governor- General of India from 1880
to 1884; the statue of Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee, the pioneer industrialist of
Bengal is on the eastern side.
53. WHY?
• Sense of “rightful self-glorification”, which came to appeal to the
aesthetic sensibilities of continental Europeans and Americans, whose
architects came to astutely incorporate telling indigenous
“Asian exoticism" elements, whilst implementing their own engineering
innovations supporting such elaborate construction, both in India and
abroad, evidence for which can be found to this day in public, private and
government owned buildings.
• Public and government buildings were often rendered on an intentionally
grand scale, reflecting and promoting a notion of an unassailable and
invincible British empire.
60. ‘…Not only The handsomest town in Asia
but one of the finest in the world.”
L. de Grandpré, French visitor in A Voyage
in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, 1803.