Discover the beauty of Yangon

The rice trading firm by Scotsmen James and George Bulloch was first housed by this red brick building. Rangoon became a fast-growing maritime hub for the Bay of Bengal under the shadow of Calcutta’s port in the mid-19th century. Bulloch Brothers & Co. commissioned this building along Stra

Secretariat office is a historic landmark in Yangon which exemplifies imposing and defensive Victorian-colonial architecture. Built in several stages between 1889 and 1905, it became the administrative centre of British Burma. It was the place where General Aung San, the father of Modern Myanmar, an

The High Court is a standout amongst Yangon's most famous pilgrim structures. Imagined overleaf with the Independence Monument, it is an inevitable sight as you walk downtown.Its draftsman, James Ransome (1865– 1944), was John Begg's forerunner as Consulting Architect to the Government of Indi

The Custom House was structured by John Begg (1866– 1937), Consulting Architect to the Government of India. Alongside the Custom House, he structured the Central Telegraph Office and the Printing and Publishing Enterprise. Begg was one of the fundamental planners of "the Raj" and a main advoca

British set out to build up Rangoon's port after the Second Anglo – Burmese War in 1852. Lieutenant Fraser of the Bengal Engineers picked the Sule Pagoda to be the core of the town's new road framework. (Fraser additionally loaned his name to adjacent Fraser Street, presently Anawratha Road.)

Yangon City Hall is the pride of Yangon and it is a fine example of syncretic Burmese architecture. The architecture of Yangon’s City Hall tells a story of rising nationalism during decades of colonial rule. It was built over a drawn-out, fifteen-year period during which the world was changing

Planned by John Begg, a Scottish planner in 1911, this structure is his third and toward the end in Yangon. It remains next to the High Court, planned by James Ransome, who went before Begg as Consulting Architect to the Government of India.It was portrayed, fabricating the Telegraph Office on water

This structure on Mahabandoola Garden Street was before the Rowe and Co. retail establishment, known as the "Harrods of the East". It remains in a standout amongst Yangon's most touristic regions, directly by City Hall. With City Hall setback from the road, the old Rowe and Co. building emerges conv

The Port Authority's corner tower is a Yangon milestone. The pitched red tile rooftop and hand-painted lettering command the view from the stream and the port. The Corinthian twofold segments outline curved openings. The encased space is secured with green examples that shield the recessed windows f

This three-storeyed structure is 90 meters wide and demonstrates an astonishing, extravagant neoclassical façade. It was approved by an Indian merchant and later leased to a wealthy Burmese operator, U Ba Nyunt. He changed it into the essential Burmese-run retail foundation, Myanmar Aswe (by