ARCHITECTURAL THANE

Welcome back to Architectural Thane by Trupti Biswas. This section will give us the information on Architect of Ancient Thane. This is Trupti here. So how was the introduction to Aaple Thane city? Here we will see how the city of Thane has developed over these years…… its childhood , its youth …. Its pink days and its blue days also.

The old city center of Thane

Today Ashok Talkies was then 'Shivaji Theatre', the only theatre then.

Todays Prabhat Talkies area (Garbage dumpyard then) was the civic center of Thane, with a jail on the opposite side where people were hanged in the open on a mango tree. Near the jail there was a cattle shed, Police Station (now renewed into Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya) and a horseshoe shaped municipality office. The Collector's office was positioned where the present (old and new) Tahsildar office stands.

The road form the railway station to Collector's office was the main city road. The road names then were very crude and local.

The new city center of thane

The new city center has developed in the heart of the city along the Court Naka .The name of the chowk itself suggests that the high court is placed over here, with the Zilladhikari karyalaya complex on the opposite side. The court naka road converges with four other roads to form a traffic node.

This node is characterized by a huge Banayan tree which is maintained inspite of its placement in the middle of the road. This tree adds a life to the chowk .The government rest house faces the chowk, followed by a road going towards the police quarters and an adjacent road going towards the Police Headquarters.

One of the roads leads to the Thane jail and the other one terminates in a small chowk with the civil hospital, G.P.O., Central Maidan and a Talao enveloping it. The beautification of chowks and road widening has given a facelift to this chowk but there is nothing that is Architecturally appealing. There is no elevational detailing in them, neither are the structures worked out in proportion to each other. Thus there is no street façade which can define this space as a Administrative zone or a city center in general.

These structures can be unified by maintaining height proportions between them and giving them a elevationally unified look. The potential of these structures together with the chowk should be recognized and strategical planning should be done, accordingly. This was a critical analysis of the city centers of Thane.There is more to come about the new structures and the facelifts going on in Thane.

Do you have the curiousity of each nook and corner of Thane? There’s lot more to come up yet, keep visiting Aapale Thane.com.

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By : Trupti Rane Biswas
Courtesy : Oriental Library, Thane

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