SBI Building, 1940s
Location : Netaji Subhash Marg
Agency : Delhi Improvement Trust
Post the renovation of Faiz Bazaar Road (Netaji Subhash Marg), the Delhi Improvement Trust offered design suggestions for new commercial complexes coming up along the road adhering to Art Deco style. Adopting similar lines, the building housing SBI Bank followed a central entrance and a vertically rising tower over it, with peculiar chevron patterns. Other Deco features to note are porthole like shapes on its streamlined balconies along with the low relief speedlines and flat roof projection on the top.
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Image Copyright : Sandra-Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose (Flickr)
Symmetrical Facade
Facade having symmetrical division of mass and features along the central axis, usually the entrance of the building
Central Tower
Laying emphasis on the verticality of the building. Features like towers, fins, flutes and reeds help lay upward rising emphasis
Chevrons
Repeating triangles or Inverted V’s like pattern, one of the most popular Art Deco motifs