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30 HERITAGE BUILDINGS OF YANGON: INSIDE THE CITY THAT CAPTURED TIME

Published by Association Of Myanmar Architects in 2012
ISBN: 9789997185211

£ 20.00 Photo of 30 HERITAGE BUILDINGS OF YANGON: INSIDE THE CITY THAT CAPTURED TIME- Stock Number: 1831020

30 HERITAGE BUILDINGS OF YANGON: INSIDE THE CITY THAT CAPTURED TIME

Stock no. 1831020
2013. Softcover. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book focuses on a selection of 30 key buildings and examines their past, present, and future. Piecing together the often forgotten social history of each building has involved delving into out-of-print books, company records, old city directories, newspaper archives, and people's memories. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 166 pages including index. ISBN: 9789997185211. Reprint. A very nice copy.

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Contents

  • A. Around the Secretariat
  • 1. Minister's Office (Secretariat)
  • 2. Printing & Publishing Enterprise (Government Press)
  • 3. Basic Education High School & Botahtaung (St. Paul's High School)
  • World-Famous Residents of Dalhousie Road
  • B. Around Sule Pagoda
  • 4. City Hall
  • 5. Former Immigration Department (Row &Co. Department Store)
  • 6. Former Ministry of Hotels & Tourism
  • 7. Central Telegraph Office
  • 8. High Court
  • May by Dagon Taya, an extract
  • C. Merchant Road, The Banking Quarters
  • 9. Myawaddy Bank (Reserve Bank of India)
  • 10. Myanmar Oil & Gas Enterprise (Burmah Oil Company)
  • 11. Mercahnt Road Banks
  • Rangoon Cosmopolitan by Su Lin Lewis
  • D. Pansodan Street, Lower Block
  • 12. Internal Revenue Department (Rander House)
  • 13. Lokanat Gallery Building (Sofaer's Buildings)
  • 14. Inland Waterways Department (Irrawaddy Flotilla Company)
  • 15. Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank (Grindlays Bank)
  • 16. Myanmar Economic Bank 1 (Lloyds Bank)
  • 17. Myanmar Economic Bank 2 (Chartered Bank)
  • Constructing Yangon's Colonial Core
  • E. Along Strand Road
  • 18. Central Post Office
  • 19. British Embassy (J. & F. Graham Shipping Co.)
  • 21. Stand Hotel
  • 21. Port Authority
  • 22. Yangon Division Court (Currency Department)
  • 23. Custom House
  • 24. Yangon Division Office Complex (New Law Courts)
  • 25. Myanmar Economic Bank 3 (Imperial Bank of India)
  • Yangon Renovations: Successes & Challenges
  • F. Elsewhere in Yangon
  • 26. Yangon General Hospital (Rangoon General Hospital)
  • 27. Former Burma Railways Comnpany
  • 28 Former Pegu Club
  • 29. Former Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Prome Court)
  • 30. State Fine Arts School (Chin Tsong Palace)
  • Afterword
  • Old Steet Names
  • Sources
  • Ackinowledgements
  • Photograp0hic Credits
  • Index