Howrah
— — the city the bridge belongs to.
Not only on a wall.
“On the west bank of the Hooghly opposite Kolkata, joined to the older city by the cantilever bridge that carries its name. The railway terminus at the foot of the bridge is among the busiest in India; the river still moves cargo past it the way it has since the East India Company first dropped anchor in these reaches. A working city, riverfront for most of its length. — from the studio
Howrah, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Howrah is a city of about 1.1 million on the west bank of the Hooghly river in West Bengal, directly across from Kolkata. The two cities are joined by the Howrah Bridge, a 705-metre cantilever span opened in 1943 and renamed Rabindra Setu in 1965 for the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Howrah Junction railway station, at the eastern end of the bridge, has 23 platforms and is among the busiest railway terminals in the country, handling more than a million passengers on a normal working day.
The bridge carries no piers in the river — the central span of about 457 metres hangs entirely from two steel towers, each rising 82 metres above the road deck. It was designed by the British firm Rendel, Palmer and Tritton and fabricated largely from Indian steel by the Tata Iron and Steel Company. The crossing was originally called the New Howrah Bridge to distinguish it from the pontoon bridge it replaced. Trams ran across it until 1993; today only road traffic and pedestrians cross.
The view of the bridge from the Mullick Ghat flower market on the Kolkata side, just before dawn, is one of the recognised sights of the region. Ferries cross to Howrah every few minutes from Babughat and from Fairlie Place. The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, on the river a few kilometres south of the station, holds the Great Banyan, a single tree whose canopy now covers about 1.5 hectares and is reckoned among the largest tree canopies in the world.