29 July,2013 02:45 PM IST | | The Guide Team
High Court: Built in Venetian Gothic style with General John Augustine Fuller's designs, it has six storeys, a length of 562 feet and an overall height of 174 feet. It is surrounded by arcaded corridors.
Public Works Department Office: This building, was designed by Henry St Clair Wilkins who despite being in Europe was in sync with the drawings of the old General Post Office. He took great pains to harmonise it, in terms of style, structure, size, appeal and the materials used. It stands on the opposite side of the old Post Office.
Rajabai Tower: It took nine years to build and raise it to 280 feet in height with seven stories. It measures 120 feet above its neighbouring buildings and for a while was the tallest construction in the city.
University Buildings:u00a0Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, principal of Sir JJ School of Art, and his students helped in the complex and highly skilled artwork and carvings on the stone used across various structures within the complex
Old Secretariat: Being the first to be built in the line of Gothic buildings, Wilkins designed it as a narrow structure to allow sea breezes to penetrate every part of it; these were aided by airy spiral staircases at both ends.
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