city scale aesthetic analysis

from NUS LANDSCAPE : Grow Hebbal - Envisioning Productive Urban Landscapes

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Most of bangalore’s landmarks are the heritages of the British’s colonization history, and now serve as museum or holding music concerts. Some of them are still used as goverment agency.This places provide space for gathering people and attract a lot of visitors.

The city’s gentle climate, broad streets, greenery and the presence of many public parks like Lal Bagh and Cubbon Park has earned the city the name of ‘India’s garden city’.

There are three main religion brives in Bangalore, the Hinduism, which has the most population, the Islam and Christianity.

UB City is the biggest luxury commercial property project in Bangalore, India.Centrally located in the CBD (Central Business District), on the corner of Kasturba road and Vittal Mallya Road, it is just 1.8 km away from M.G. Road / Brigade road junction.

Green Space

Overlapped of locations of material and natural resources indicates a phenomenon that these places mostly locate in the green space. This means that green spaces need to support not only ecological function but also social activities; green space should be multi-functional.

Hindu Temples

78.87%

Halasuru Someshwara Temple, It is the oldest temple in the city and dates back to the Chola period. Irrespective of when the initial consecration took place, art historian George Michell believes there were major additions or modifications during the late Vijayanagara Empire period, during the rule of Hiriya Kempe Gowda II.

Islamic Mosques

13.90%

Masjid-e-Khadriya is made using Islamic architecture with geometric patterns and surrounded by gardens with fountains. One can see pointed arches and onion shaped domes with a grand arch in the opening gate of this masjid. This grand arch is rectangular in shape and adorned with calligraphy. On All 4 sides at the end of the masjid are high minars. Beautiful landscaping has been done on broad pathways that start from the grand arch leading up to the complex.

Looking back to the bangalore's history, the British influence is apparent in Bangalore's city scape. The geometric radial street patten reflects the typical characteristic of England garden. Religion plays a prominant role in India’s culture context, and also contributes to the current unique urban pattern: The temple or the garden will locate in the center of the district, and the road will be spread out in radial pattern, and usully park and temple are combined with each other. As a result, the temples which are the symbol of religion become part of street scape that people can see it from all the district.

Christian Churches

5.61%

The church of St. Mary’s at Blackpally became a parish and was elevated to the status of minor basilica in 1973 through an order by Pope Paul VI (The church was the sixth church in India to be elevated to this status). Stained glass windows and multiple columns with a rich Corinthian capital support the stately arches of the Church.