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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. Lutyens' Delhi progressively developed over the period from 1912 ...
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.
Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker were selected to design the area in a traditional Indian fashion. [2] The architects decided that the area where the foundation stones of Delhi were planted, Coronation Park, was an unsuitable area. [7]
Lutyens's work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving's book Indian Summer. In spite of his monumental work in India, Lutyens held views on the peoples of the Indian sub-continent which would now be considered racist, although they were common at the time among many of his contemporaries. [ 36 ]
After Delhi was declared the site for a new capital of India, George V laid the foundation of New Delhi, which would serve as the capital. The British invited Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker to design the government buildings. This area would also be called Lutyens' Delhi in honor of the architect.
Bust of Sir Edwin Lutyens by Denis 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
The Claridges Delhi is a five star hotel in New Delhi with 132 rooms. It is located in Lutyens' Delhi in the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road. [1] Built in 1955, the hotel's interior depicts historical artwork of royal India and is surrounded with lush green lawns and has been an important relic of independent India.
The memorial in New Delhi, like the Cenotaph in London, is a secular memorial, free of religious and "culturally-specific iconography such as crosses". Lutyens according to his biographer, Christopher Hussey, relied on the "elemental mode", a style of commemoration based on a "universal architectural style free of religious ornamentation".