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University of Mumbai Complex

Art Deco Mumbai

Art Deco Mumbai
Mumbai, India

View of the the Rajabai clocktower, University of Mumbai. It was designed by Ar. Sir George Gilbert Scott and funded by prominent Bombay businessman Premchand Roychand. At 72 meters high, it was intended to be the tallest structure in Bombay. Built by local builders and craftsmen, with design inputs from students of the Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy School of Art (then the Bombay School of Art). This Victorian Gothic building at Oval Maidan represents a unique blend of European Gothic and local design, celebrated as Bombay Gothic.

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