The Central Public Works Department, Southern Region, South Zone III, has designed, constructed, and maintained several public buildings in Bangalore, many of which are striking due to their architectural facets.
Some of the buildings which CPWD has executed in Bangalore are the office complex of the Geological Survey of India; Southern Regional Centre of Sports Authority of India; Central Silk Board; Kendriya Sadan; Weavers’ Training Centre; Administrative office of Hotline Training Centre and exhibition complex of Karnataka Trade Promotion Organisation.

The Regional Passport Office in Koramangala near the National Games Village, built at a cost of about Rs 6 crore, is a showpiece for the structural and architectural expertise of CPWD.

Modern design
The architects of CPWD have designed this building with modern design concepts. The basic form of square has been adopted in the architectural design. Like many other buildings in the IT city, the Passport office building has been provided with glass facade signifying transparency in working. Even the internal partitions are in glass. The transparent facade also maximises natural sunlight into the buildings, resulting in energy saving.

The new passport building is a four-storeyed building with a plinth area of 2,728 sq metres. Public access to the building is for the ground and first floors of the building, where various officers who deal with the public, are accommodated. The second and third floors house various other functions of the Passport Office apart from a conference hall. Provision has been made for easy access of the physically challenged persons into the building besides special toilets for them.

State-of-the-art building materials and technologies have been used in the construction of this building. Modern building materials like structural glazing, curtain walling with aluminium composite panels, polished vitrified flooring, mirror polished granite slab flooring, imported wooden floor panels and acrylic exterior emulsion paints are used in the construction. The construction of the building began in February 2005 and was completed about a year later.