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  2. Lutyens' Delhi - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Lutyens Bungalow Zone - Wikipedia

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    Lutyens Bungalow Zone or LBZ is the area spread over 2,800-hectare area in Lutyens' Delhi, with bungalows (houses) for government ministers, officials and their administrative offices, since the British Raj.

  4. Construction of New Delhi - Wikipedia

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    The construction of New Delhi refers to the development of Delhi into the capital of the British Raj, and creation of New Delhi in a mass-scale real estate development project before the Independence of India. [1] [2] [3] Before the project, Delhi was known of as a large slum due to the unplanned settlements of Old Delhi or Shahjahanabad. [1]

  5. 7, Lok Kalyan Marg - Wikipedia

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    While the government-run Special Protection Group (SPG) is the primary agency in charge of the security, it is aided by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and the Delhi Police to provide three-rung security for the estate. There is only one entrance to 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, which is guarded by the SPG.

  6. Rashtrapati Bhavan - Wikipedia

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    In 1916 the Imperial Delhi committee dismissed Lutyens's proposal to alter the gradient. Lutyens thought Baker was more concerned with making money and pleasing the government, rather than making a good architectural design. [5] The land was owned by Basakha Singh and mostly Sir Sobha Singh. [6]

  7. This might be the funniest real estate listing we've ever read

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    We've seen eloquently written real estate listings for luxurious and quirky homes—long, drawn out adjectives and picture-perfect descriptions aplenty. But we've never read anything quite like ...

  8. List of works by Edwin Lutyens - Wikipedia

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    This 600-dwelling estate is the only housing project of Lutyens. It is composed of seven U-shaped five- and six-storey buildings, recognizable by their chess-board like façade. [31] The estate's status was the subject of a 1990 legal case, Westminster City Council v Duke of Westminster. Henrietta Barnett School

  9. Bungalow - Wikipedia

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    The area with bungalows built in the 1920s–1930s in New Delhi is now known as Lutyens' Bungalow Zone [12] and is an architectural heritage area. In Bandra , a suburb of India's commercial capital Mumbai , numerous colonial-era bungalows exist; they are threatened by removal and replacement of ongoing development.