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Describe a tall building in your city you like or dislike

 

Describe a tall building in your city you like or dislike 


You should say 

Where it is? 

What it is used for? 

What does it look like? 

And explain why you like or dislike it. 

There are many buildings in my hometown that are adding charm to its status. Amongst them, some are horizontal; however, some are tall or vertical. In this cue card, I will like to speak about my favourite one. 

Where it is? 

This building is named as Anglo-Sikh War Memorial which is located on the outskirts of my hometown Ferozepur on the banks of twin canals in a village named Ferozeshah on National Highway-05. 

What it is used for? 

This impressive structure's exposed concrete reveals the extent to which its architect HS Chopra absorbed the Corbusian ideology and idiom. This building is associated with the historical Anglo-Sikh wars between 1845 and 1849 and hence, acts as a museum nowadays. 

What does it look like? 

The building has a free plan and free facade which employs independent structural columns. 

The 17-metre-high building has been built in reinforced concrete using a structural system of columns and beams which are placed at regular intervals. 

This building is cross-shaped and accommodates a circular core in the centre of the building. 

Moreover, the exhibition areas around this core receive natural light through deep-recessed fenestration in all four corners. 

And explain why you like or dislike it. 

I like this museum owing to plenty of reasons; 

First of all, it is a museum that inculcates respect for the bravery of soldiers associated with the battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah, Sabhraon and Chellianwala from 1845 to 1849. 

The second cogent reason is that by vising this place, everyone respects the culture, custom, creed and roots since it is associated with History and, “History is a window to the past”. 

Last, but not least, Anglo-Sikh War Memorial stands on a plot of about 2 hectares and is full of peace as well as tranquillity due to the fact this place acts as a stress buster.

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