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Bust of Sir Edwin Lutyens by Denis Alva Parsons. This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944). Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of ...
The Central Vista was first designed by architect Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, when the capital of the British Raj was moved from Calcutta to Delhi. The Parliament building alone took six years to construct, from laying the foundation stone on 12 February 1921 to the inauguration by then Viceroy Lord Irwin on 18 January 1927. [ 6 ]
View of Rashtrapati Bhavan with the Jaipur Column in the foreground, in Lutyens' Delhi. Lutyens' Delhi is an area in New Delhi, India, named after the British architect Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), who was entrusted with the vast majority of the architectural design and buildings of the city that subsequently emerged as New Delhi during the period of the British Raj.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA (/ ˈ l ʌ t j ə n z / LUT-yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 [2]) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
The club is located in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi on Safdarjung Road, per the site plan drawn up by Sir Edwin Lutyens as part of his grand design for Imperial Celebrations. Lutyens Delhi - the eighth in line - was built in an area littered with stones, tombs, domes, ruined walls and gardens of imperial former capitals - the historic crossroads ...
The old parliament architecture built in 1927 was designed by the British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker; [15] and it was largely influenced by Hindu Chausath Yogini Temple, Mitaoli. [16] [17] The new complex has a hexagonal shape and it is built next to the existing complex and is almost equal in size to the former one.
Tigbourne Court is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Wormley, Surrey, England, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Witley.It was designed by architect Edwin Lutyens, using a mixture of 17th-century style vernacular architecture and classical elements, and has been called "probably his best" building, for its architectural geometry, wit and texture. [1]
Lutyens designed the house for his mother-in-law, Edith Bulwer-Lytton, the dowager countess of Lytton, and her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton. [5] It was built at the southern end of Park Wood on the Lyttons' Knebworth estate, about 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) southeast of Knebworth House, using whitewashed brick, weatherboarding and plain tiles. [4]