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Raffles Hotel (1887 ): The Romanticization of the Colonial Past through the Raffles name.

Colonial hotels are a deep-rooted architectural typology among the urban landscape to emerge from the colonial British administration era. Hotels provided not just higher standards of comfort and living through the buildings’ size, facilities, and standards of services compared to other travelers accommodations available, but they also provided a space for the localization of modernity […]

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus: Imperial Dialogue Through Architecture, Bombay India, 1878

The architecture of India has evolved throughout centuries, deeply rooted within history, culture, traditions, and religion. The British legacy in India remains among the infrastructure of the nation as colonial buildings in India use their architecture as expressions of control and power. The Chhatrapati  Shivaji Terminus, formally known as the Victoria Terminus in Bombay is […]

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