The design of GPO building is a mixture of traditional and modern architecture. The podium and the sides of the building are of fine chiseled stone masonry with huge pillars and corridors in the front. The central hall has an imposing height of 28 feet.
The building has three domes, cast in R.C.C. and veneered with stones. Two of them are small and one on the above the front side of the building is very huge.
In Oct 1988, Govt of India released 4 stamps on monumental postal buildings. One of them was on Bangalore G.P.O.
42 comments:
Wow , nice pictures and some really interesting information .
Indigenous architecture anywhere is a noble expression of place such as here!
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It is a fine architecture!
And I thought this was another temple! It's quite magnificent for a government building! Love that first photo especially...
Would be a pleasure to go into a post office like this one.
I think I passed this building when visiting Bangalore last year. Nice knowing about it!
It is a very interesting building!
A wonderful dome!
The architecture is very intricate!
Nice shots!
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful building. Is the older part British influenced? Its always nice to be honored with a stamp too. Nicely done!
Beautiful building, it looks also very functional. Wonderful the stamp too.
Lovely skies and what an impressive post office!! I love the stamp, too! Terrific captures for the day, Rajesh, as always! Hope you and your family have a great weekend!
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Great looking building, although I like the temples better. Boom & gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
Beautiful building.
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lovely shots Rajesh.
Very beautiful photos for SWF,Rajesh!Well done!Have a nice weekend!
very interesting. it's a pity that our postal department is losing so much money because people aren't using the postal service like they used to.
What a pretty sky in the first photo, Rajesh.
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That's a magnificent looking post office.
Very lovely!
SWF
Beautiful photos, Rajesh! Thanks for sharing.
What a beautiful post office, ours are all generic modern buildings.
a beautiful building!
The blue tint of the the sky is a great accent for those clouds!
Beautiful shots. Happy sky watching.
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Nice photos, yes, a beautiful building with a dome.
the 2nd shot is interesting!
ah! the number of times we cross this building in a month!
didnt know some of the facts about it though
Nice to have have stamps with the beautiful building. Have a nice weekend.
This is a magnificent building. It's very appropriate that it was honored by being an image on a stamp.
That is a lovely building, and I like the composition of your first one, with the dome of the roof against the pretty sky.
Wonderful building
in a wonderful place :-)
Nice to be back again ;)
like the postage stamp, most of our post office have died.
Beautiful building. Great shots.
A nice building for a GPO.
Interesting -- and quite different from the older (much older) architecture we usually see here Rajesh!
This GPO building came up in the eighties. Before that GPO was housed in an old British style bungalow - unfortunately that heritage building was demolished to make way for the present GPO.
Thank you all for the appreciation.
wow! an engineering marvel indeed.
That's a grand landmark, actually; One that we forget to look at when we busily pass by.
Thank you all for appreciation.
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