LIVE CASE STUDY: INDIAN MUSEUM, KOLKATA
ARCHITECTURE OF INDIAN MUSEUM : The architecture of the Indian Museum resembles a simplistically designed grand white Neoclassical-style building. Each floor houses colonnaded pavilions and massive halls. The museum was completed in 1875 at a total expense of INR 1, 40,000. The building has three floors, each spanning across an area of around 930 square meters.
Entrance Gate.
Window, inviting day light.
Bilateral Symmetrical layout.
Staircase.
Elegant balustrades & lamp standard.
2.4m wide, Colonnaded Corridor.
Natural & Artificial light in galleries.
Huge Central Courtyard.
Doric Columns fused with Arch opening.
View form cor-ridor of 1 st floor.
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