Bangalore Cityscapes

[kshatriya]

Some gorgeous buildings there. Go Bangalore!

[Jai]

Thankx Suncity





Caption: Commuters are seen on a busy commercial street in the southern Indian city of Bangalore in this photo taken on October 2, 2004. When narrow colonial-era streets get jammed with evening traffic in India's technology capital, the radio disc jockey on car stereos turns agony aunt. 'I want you to vent all your frustrations by screaming as hard as you want to,' Darius Sunawala tells a rush-hour commuter moaning by phone about potholed roads in Bangalore. Picture taken on October 2, 2004. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE LIFE-INDIA-OUTSOURCING REUTERS/Jagadeesh Nv



PS I'll eventually get those images on another server

[Suraj]

I simply cannot see the point of permitting vehicular traffic on Commercial Street, or for that matter, Brigade Road and perhaps Church Street (which runs perpendicular to Brigade Rd (till St. Marks Road ?). They're narrow, have barely enough space to accomodate 1970s era traffic (probably 100x more now, compared to back then), and they're an endless cacophony of automobile sounds and horns.

They ought to knock down a couple of old buildings nearby if needed, and build a cumulative multistoreyed/underground car/bike parking capacity of 5000-10000 spaces. It will easily provide RoI in no time. Turn Commercial St, Brigade and Church St into cobblestoned promenades, as they really should be. Let the PYTs exhibit themselves in peace and quiet, without the relentless cacophony of vehicles. Think of all those young men who purdy themselves up for the daily homage, only to have the apple of their eye obscured repeatedly by unsightly passing autorickshaws and Tata Sumos. Sigh.

[kshatriya]

MG Road Aerials







Bangalore central mall





Pics by German photographer Coni Horler

Vidhan Soudha



Utility building

[kshatriya]

Dunno where exactly to post these, posting in this thread.

From the net (pics range from recent to old)

[Suraj]

Originally Posted by kshatriya

Very nice. Which road is this ? I know I was a Bangalore resident, but I can't quite recall any road that looked like this. Maybe it was the ground-level perspective that made it look different. It might be MG Road, but I'm not sure - I expected to see Cubbon Park a bit further on, but can't recognize anything that looks like it.

[kshatriya]

Originally Posted by Suraj

Very nice. Which road is this ? I know I was a Bangalore resident, but I can't quite recall any road that looked like this. Maybe it was the ground-level perspective that made it look different. It might be MG Road, but I'm not sure - I expected to see Cubbon Park a bit further on, but can't recognize anything that looks like it.

I found them on the net, and the file says ''-unknown, so I don't know either. Maybe the ring-road?

[Suncity]

Does look like MG Road..

http://www.pbase.com/image/20719643

http://www.pbase.com/image/31085817

[Ashok]

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wow, just realized how green Bangalore is

HATS OFF
Who ever this Jai is, hats off to you for such an initiative.
Nice to see that Bangalore is growing. Can't help about bad roads. Hope that also should improve shortly.

CLARIFICATION
There were a couple of comments I saw flouting on what language was 'Namma Ooru Bangalooru'. This is 100% Kannada, the language spoken in Karnataka. 'Namma Ooru' is my city 'Bangalooru' is the Kannada or the original name for Bangalore.

There is a flouting amphitheater in Wipro E-City campus. If someone can try adding a photograph of that flouting theater that should be another feather on Bangalore's cap.

-Jay-

[Jai]

Hi Jay,

Credit goes to the original photographers, who courageously break the long standing taboos in Indian culture by taking photographs of buildings.

Here are the only photographs I've found of the Wipro campus 75,000 sq. ft, 800-seat amphitheatre:

[Jai]

Great pics Kshatriya!

[Jai]

Originally Posted by kronik

and the Ramohalli Banyan: does the movie Sholay with Jai (what a coincidence) and Veeru in their Bullet ring a bell?

[Suncity]

Some Wipro pics







http://www.wipro.com/newsroom/newsit...ewstory100.htm

[Suncity]

Embassy Square



Khanija Bhavan



Raheja Paramount



Embassy Tranquil



The Orchid, Bangalore



Manipal Building



Public Utility Building



Visveswarya Tower



Raheja Towers



Brigade Towers



Vayudooth



Shankarnarayan Tower



Prestige Towers



Barton Court



Du Parc Trinity

[Suncity]

Need more info on this

Gold Hill Square

Rendering



Actual (looks shorter)



Venkateshwara Developers prestigious projects include Le Parc Richmonde and Du Parc Trinity.

[Jai]

^ Well at least they now seem to have gone away from the faux french names

[Suncity]

Sigma Softech (U/C)

[Suncity]

Phoenix Global Solutions Think Campus model..



The Real thing..





Looks fishy...



East Wing







West Wing ;-)



The Cafetaria

[Suncity]

Unilever Development Centre, Greenhouse Structure