Bombay Stock Exchange (Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers)

The Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, better known as the BSE Towers, are a 29-storey building on Dalal Street in downtown Mumbai, India. It is the headquarters of the Bombay Stock Exchange, which is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, founded in 1875. The building is about 118 meters tall and was finished in 1980.

It was one of the tallest buildings in India when it was completed. The BSE has registered the building's picture as a trademark, because it is the symbol of the exchange. The exchange has registered the building's picture as a trademark, and the street outside is called Dalal Street, meaning Broker Street.

From a small building to a tower

Before 1928 the exchange worked from a building near Mumbai's Town Hall. In 1928 it bought land near Horniman Circle and put up a building that was used from 1930. The street became known as Dalal Street, which means Broker Street in Hindi, because the exchange was there.

The current towers were started in the late 1970s and occupied in 1980. At first they were called the BSE Towers. When the exchange's long-time chairman, Sir Phiroze Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy, died, the building was renamed in his memory.

What it looks like

Cream-coloured bands wrap round the rounded wings and sweep outward at the top, on either side of a dark glass strip. A round trading-hall rotunda stands in front.

The exchange protects the look of this building as a trademark. The cream bands curve outward at the top like open wings. In front, a round hall called a rotunda holds the trading floor.

On the globe

The model shows the cream-banded tower with a dark glass strip and the round trading-hall rotunda in front.