GPO, Lahore. Architecture Analysis

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GPO GENERAL POST OFFICE

MURAD ALI RAHEMA MARYUM


HISTORY

THE PRESENT BUILDING OF GPO LAHORE WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY SIR GANGA RAM. THE BUILDING WAS COMPLETED AND OCCUPIED IN THE 1904 BY THE POST OFFICE. IT WAS BUILT TO COMMEMORATE QUEEN VICTORIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE.


HISTORY

ACCORDING TO SOME CLAIMS THE BUILDING WAS THE INITIAL DESIGN OF MR. M STARMER HACK WHICH WAS MODIFIED IN THE CURRENT BUILDING.


ARCHITECTURAL

FEATURES

&

STYLES


SYMMETRICAL FACADE

GOTHIC REVIVAL GREEK REVIVAL NEO-CLASSICAL (LATE 19TH CENTURY)


SAINT

PAUL'S

CATHEDRAL

FASHION

AN EXAMPLE OF NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTUREY)


PEDIMENT/ CLOCK TOWER

TEMPANUM

GREEK REVIVAL -SECOND EMPIRE STYLE ARCHITECTURE

A POPULAR FEATURE GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE ENGLAND.

ENTABLATURE

NEO-CLASSICAL ARCJITECTURE STYLE

IN IN


A POPULAR FEATURE IN GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE IN ENGLAND.

NEB GIB

CLOCK TOWER


CUPOLA

ITALIENNATE STYLE

DOME

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

PILASTERS

BAROQUE STYLE STICKSTYLE


CIRCULAR

BEHIND THE BRAND

PEDIMENT

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE DORIC COLUMNS

GREEK ARCHITECTURE

PILASTERS

VICTORIAN STICK STYLE


BULLSEYE WINDOW

BAROQUE STYLE

BOSAGE

A TREATMENTS OF FACADE WHICH BREAKS MONOTMY BY PROJECTIONS

MASONARY STYLE

GEORGIAN STYLE STONE MASONARY WITH BRITISH BRICK


VOUSSIOR

IS A WEDGE SHAPED OR TAPERED STONE USED TO CONSTRUCT AN ARCH


IN CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, AN ARCHITRAVE IS THE LINTEL OR BEAM THAT RESTS ON THE CAPITALS OF COLUMNS.

OCTAGONAL TOWERS

ARCHITRAVE

NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE STYLE

ROMANESQUE STYLE

BEHIND THE BRAND

Presentations are PARAPET communication GREEK tools that can ARCHITECTURE be lectures. PORTICO BLAUSTRADE

ITALIENNATE STICKSTYLE


ALNWICK

The Romans utilised octagonal towers which emphasised the use of

CASTLE TOWERS

BEHIND THE BRAND Presentations are communication tools that can be lectures.

a tower in fortification and sentinel roles.


ROMAN ARCADE

AN ARCADE WITH PILASTERS, OR ENGAGED COLUMNS ATTACHED TO PIERS CARRYING AN ENTABLATURE, IS KNOWN AS A ROMAN ARCADE.

RICHARDSONIAN ROMANESQUE GOTHIC STYLE REVIVED IN RENAISSANCE


OSPEDALE DEGLI INNOCENTI

FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI


BRISTISH COLONIAL STYLE COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IS AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE FROM A MOTHER COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE BUILDINGS OF SETTLEMENTS OR COLONIES IN DISTANT LOCATIONS.

THE MODERN STATE OF PAKISTAN HAD BEEN A PART OF BRITISH INDIA WHICH WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE THAT LASTED MORE THAN A CENTURY AND THEREFORE BRITISH ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS CAN BE FOUND IN PAKISTAN'S ARCHITECTURE. MF | F/W 2020


VERANDA THE VERANDA FIRST BECAME WIDESPREAD IN COLONIAL BUILDINGS DURING THE 1850S.

VICTORIAN SHINGLE STYLE ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE ELEMENT

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ROMAN ARCH

GREEK ARCHITECTUE ROMANESQUE REVIVAL

RUNDBOGENSTIL (ROUND ARCH STYLE)

ROMANESQUE REVIVAL

BLAUSTRADES

NEO- CLASSICAL QUEEN ANEE STYLE


RUNDBOGENSTIL ARCHIVOLT

ROMANESQUE REVIVAL

(ROUND ARCH STYLE)

ROMANESQUE REVIVAL


CORNICE

NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE STYLE

ENTABLATURE

NEO-CLASSICAL ARCJITECTURE STYLE

DENTIL COURSE

QUEEN ANNE STYLE

JANE GOODALL


FANLIGHT WINDOWS GREEK REVIVAL QUENNE ANNE STYLE ROMANESQUE

STEPPED WINDOWS COLONIAL STYLE .


INSIDE THE OCATAGONAL TOWERS SPIRAL STAIRS STEPPED WINDOWS ARCHED WINDOWS


ARCHED

DOORS

GOTHIC REVIVAL QUEEN ANNE STYLE ITALIENNATE STYLE


BLUE COAT CHAMBERS

QUEEN ANEE STYLE ARCHITECTURE


KROW TSETAL RUO

WORMS' EYE VIEW

IMPERIAL STAIRCASE

SICILIAN BAROQUE STYLE


0202 W/F | FM

ROOFTOP VIEW

SKYLIGHT



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