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Lutyens' Delhi is an area in Delhi, specifically NewDelhi, named after the leading British architect

Edwin Lutyens (18691944)

HE was responsible for much of the architectural designand buildings when India was part of the BritishEmpire.

HERBERT BAKERLUTYEN


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Largely designed by Lutyens over twenty or soyears (1912 to 1930)

New Delhi, situated within the metropolis ofDelhi, was chosen to replace Calcutta as theseat of the British Indian government in 1912;the project was completed in 1929 and officially

inaugurated in 1931. In undertaking this project, Lutyens invented

his own new Order of classical architecture,which has become known as the "Delhi Order"and was used by him for several designs inEngland, such as Campion Hall, Oxford.


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City Plan

Even Lutyens' layout plan cannot be consideredoriginal.

He had initially designed a city with all the streetscrossing at right angles, much like New York. ButHardinge told him of the dust storms that sweep thelandscape in these parts, insisting on roundabouts,hedges and trees to break their force, giving him the

plans of Paris and Washington to study and apply toDelhi.

The final plan borrows from many other town plansand from earlier plans for New Delhi.

Roderick Gradidge writes, "Although the plan was agroup effort, it has often been attributed to Lutyens,and there is no doubt that he was a powerfulinfluence in its creation."


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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 1January 1944) was a leading 20th century Britisharchitect who is known for imaginatively adaptingtraditional architectural styles to the requirements ofhis era. He designed many English country houses.

He has been referred to as "the greatest Britisharchitectand is best known for playing aninstrumental role in designing and building a sectionof the metropolis of Delhi, known as New Delhi,which would later on serve as the seat of the Govt. ofIndia.

In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is alsoknown as Lutyens Delhi".

In collaboration with Herbert Baker.


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Stylistically, he never fitted into any single school or movement inas much as the mark he left was always his own.

Although influenced early on by the Arts and Crafts movement of

his youth, and later by the discipline of the classical ideal, hiseclecticism was such that he was more concerned with theintricacies of his own aesthetic principles

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What Lutyens Built Rashtrapati Bhavan Four bungalows inside the President's Estate India Gate Hyderabad and Baroda palaces at India Gate

A search for a monumental and imperial architecture, but also an architecturalvocabulary that would be representative of the subcontinent


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inspired by and incorporated various features fromthe local and traditional Indian architecture

most clearly seen in the great drum-mounted

Buddhist dome of the Viceregal Lodge, nowRastrapathi Bawan.

This palatial building, containing 340 rooms, is builton an area of some 330 acres (1.3 km) and

incorporates a private garden also designed byLutyens


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This vast mansion has got four floors and 340 rooms. With a floorarea of 200, 000 square feet it is built by using 700 million bricks

and three million cubic feet of stone. Hardly any steel has goneinto the construction of the buildin .

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The sprawling Moghul Garden inside theRashtrapati Bhavan was inspired by the ShalimarGardens in Srinagar and the green spreads aroundthe Taj Mahal. But despite such eclectic borrowings,

the final result is both captivating and stunning.

the Mughal Gardens spread over 342 acres


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dome which is superimposed on its structure. It isvisible from a distance and the most eye-catchinground roof with a circular base in the heart ofDelhi.

While Lutyens ostensibly acknowledged thedesign of the dome to the pantheon of the Rome, itis very strongly believed by informed analysts thatthe dome was structured in the pattern of the great

Stupa at Sanchi. The pre-dominance of Indian architecture in the

dome is evident from the fact that it is encircled byrailings of Sanchi origin.

In fact the whole of Rashtrapati Bhavan embodiesin it Indian architectural patterns such as Buddhistrailings, chhajjas, chhatris and jaalis.


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Lutyens laid out the central administrative areaof the city.

At the heart of the city was the impressiveRastrapathi bawan , formerly known asViceroy's House, located on the top of RaisinaHill.

The Rajpath, also known as King's Way,connects India Gate to Rashtrapati Bhawan,while Janpath, which crosses it at a right angle,connects South end road with ConnaughtPlace.

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The Secretariat Building, which house variousministries of the Government of indiaincluding Prime Minister of India office (PMO),

are beside the Rastrapathi Bhawan and weredesigned by Herbert Baker.

Also designed by Baker was the ParliamentHouse, located on the Sansad Marg, runningparallel with the Rajpath.

Other architects designed other buildings suchas the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals.


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The India Gate is the national monument of India. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Originally known as All India War Memorial It commemorates the 90,000 soldiers of the British Indian

Army who lost their lives while fighting for the BritishIndian Emire, or more correctly the British Raj in WorldWar-1 and the Third Anglo Afgan War

It is composed of red sand stone and granite.

Originally, a Statue of King George V had stood underthe now-vacant canopy in front of the India Gate, andwas removed to Coronation Park with other statues.

Following India's independence, India Gate became thesite of the Indian Armys Tomb of the Unknown Soldies,known as the Amar Jawan Jyoti (The flame of the

immortal soldier).

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42-metre tall

Inspired by a 18th century Mahabalipuram pavilion


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The Montague-Chelmsford reform of 1919 brought acertain legislative responsibility upon Indians, and with

it the need for a legislative building as part of the NewDelhi complex arose.

Parliament House in its final form was Baker'sconception, an odd circular form in a predominantly

orthogonal planning scheme.

In spite of the difficulty of citing a circular building inthe urban plan, Baker creation is not without

architectural merit, with an imposing exterior colonnadeand an interior three-pointed plan with a central, domedspace.


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Materials The use of the superb rhubarb-red and beige-

pink sandstones for Rashtrapati Bhavan is alsocredited to Lutyens.

But, he had actually opposed it in favour ofwhite marble as used in the Taj Mahal.

He could hardly have been aware that in whitehe too would have built a mausoleum.

In fact, sandstone was suggested by thegeological department, which got no credit


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Hyderabad House earlier known as Palace of theNizam of Hyderabad is a former princely residenceof Osman Ali Khan , Nizam VII located at NewDelhi.

This house was built in 1926 by eminent architectEdwin Lutyens.

It was the Delhi palace for the last Nizam ofHyderabad State.

It is currently used by the Govt. of India for Banquetsand meetings for visiting foreign dignitaries. It hasalso been a venue for joint press conferences andmajor government events
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Hyderabad House was built in the shape of a
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Hyderabad House was built in the shape of abutterfly. It was the largest and most expensivepalace at that time.

The entrance hall of the palace, a domed roof is theoutstanding feature. It is located to the northwest ofthe India Gate.The Hyderabad House is an amalgam of the

Mughal and European styles of architecture.It is the largest and grandest of all palaces that werebuilt during the period 1921-1931, to house variousstate rulers and it is the biggest and grandest of all

princely houses built in New Delhi by this renownedBritish architect.Hyderabad House has 36 rooms, four of which havenow been converted into dining rooms.


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(officially Rajiv Chowk) is one of the largest

financial, commercial and business centers inDelhi.

It is often abbreviated as CP and houses theheadquarters of several Indian firms.

Its surroundings occupy a place of prideamongst the heritage structures of the city.

It was developed as a showpiece of LutyensDelhi featuring a Central Business District

Named after theDuke of Cannaught, theconstruction work was started in 1929 andcompleted in 1933.


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Prior to its construction the area was a ridge


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Prior to its construction the area was a ridge,covered with kikartrees inhabited by jackalsand wild pigs, where residents of Kashmere

Gate , Civil Lines area visited during theweekends for hunting

Plans to have a central business district were asthe construction of the new capital of Imperial

India started taking shape, mooted by W.H.Nicholls, the chief architect to the Govt. ofIndia , who planned a central plaza based onthe European Renaissance and Classical style

it was Robert Tor Russell, chief architect to thePublic Works Department (PWD), Governmentof India who eventually designed the plaza.

Connaught Place had only two floors almost makes


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Connaught Place had only two floors, almost makesa complete circle and was planned to havecommercial establishments on the ground with

residential area on the first floor. The circle was eventually planned with two

concentric circles, creating Inner Circle, Middle Circleand the Outer Circle and seven radial roads.
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Entrance of the underground shopping complex , Palika Bazaar, in Connaught Place,

built in 1970s
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Jeevan Bharti, LIC building, Connaught Place, Outer Circle, built in 1986
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