Heritage + Modern: Replacing Old Windows in Kolkata Without Losing Character
Kolkata’s residential architecture is unlike anything else in India. The city preserves — sometimes defiantly — an urban character that other metros have quietly demolished: the high-ceilinged rooms of South Kolkata bungalows, the verandahed first floors of Ballygunge, the Indo-Saracenic detailing of old Alipore mansions, the timber-framed windows of early 20th-century Bhowanipore and Kalighat homes. […]