Look up images madurai railway junction. It used to have a unique style that reflected the city’s reference to being called the temple city, and ever since I was a child I used to see it that way.
Now that I am studying architecture I found a word for this: It kinda had thqt british colonial feel to it. With those straight lines intertwined with floral column capitals Until..
Some idiot decided to go all modern and clad everything in it and even had the audacity to litter the facade with advertisement panels.
The only thing that reminded of what it used to look like was a small vimaana at the top that they decided to leave. I saw the version with cladding all the time I grew up sad that such beautiful curves and columns disappear behind the clads. Glad that they took it down a couple of years ago.
