BHUBANESWAR ROAD :)

This is the street which is my favourite in my city Bhubaneswar. Love it for its beauty, the bottle neck palm trees and the circle by governor's house.

Today while I had to be at this very road for nearly two hours, I had no difficulty to kill time. While I was waiting for a family friend, I decided to make pictures of the street. Certainly being at one spot is not my thing. Hence, I took few rounds in this road to make pictures. 

They are laid below from afternoon to evening. 

Architecture travels too :)

Here is a piece of stunning information. 

At the governor house square in Bhubaneswar in Orissa, India I was going through a page of Incredible Earth for the fact they bring beautiful pictures around the globe. 

But I was stunned to see a photo of a Hindu Temple in Cairo, Egypt. I did not believe it and was almost going to leave a note on the page : Its not true, are you sure ? 

Instead I allowed the adrenaline rush in my body in right direction and googled "Hindu temple in Cairo". 

The result left me stunned, there is this structure very much existing in a suburban district of Cairo. One more reason for me to visit Egypt.

A belgian enterpreneur called Baron Empain arrived in Cairo in the 1904 to rescue his wife's project. They lost the project but instead stayed there to create wonder. He found Cairo electric railways and more. This allowed the city of Cairo to grow in the north east direction in the desert. This new city developed in the first decade of 18th century is called Heliopolis. 

But what a story, his mansion is designed by a French architect named Alxander Marcel. He combined the style of Angkor wat in Cambodia and temples of Orissa, India to product the Baron Empain Mansion. 

This is what happens when architects travel. If architecture travels then what does not.

Seriously!! what does not travel in this world. 

Picture courtesy: Wikipedia and online sources.