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Dilkusha Kothi is the remains of an eighteenth-century house built in the English baroque style in the quiet Dilkusha area of Lucknow in India. [1] Today there are only a few towers and external walls as a monument, though the extensive gardens remain.
Today it houses a popular museum and a boutique heritage hotel. Leh Palace - is a former royal palace overlooking the town of Leh, Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas. The palace was constructed circa 1600 by Sengge Namgyal of the Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh.
Thousands of palatial houses were built using local and imported materials. The most recent ones, built in the 1930s and 1940s, are in the Art Deco style. An example of a palatial house is pictured. [87] Bahá'í House of Worship at New Delhi Delhi: 2014 i, v, vi (cultural) The Lotus Temple is the main BaháΚΌí House of Worship in India. It ...
Villa Shodhan (or Shodhan House) is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier , it was built between 1951 and 1956. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Building on his previous projects whilst integrating the traditional features of Ahmedabad design, the villa symbolizes Le Corbusier's domestic architecture. [ 3 ]
In most sites, fired mud-brick (not sun-baked as in Mesopotamia) is used exclusively as the building material, but a few sites, such as Dholavira, are in stone. Most houses have two storeys, and uniform sizes and plans. The large cities declined relatively quickly, for unknown reasons, so a less sophisticated village culture was left behind. [4]
For our 2024 World’s Most Beautiful Shops awards, our editors selected brick-and-mortars across the world offering distinctive points of view—from an event planner’s entertaining emporium in ...
Jaipur House is the former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur in the city of New Delhi, India. [1] It is situated at the end of Rajpath , facing the India Gate . History
Ancient Indian architecture ranges from the Indian Bronze Age to around 800 CE. By this endpoint Buddhism in India had greatly declined, and Hinduism was predominant, and religious and secular building styles had taken on forms, with great regional variation, which they largely retain even after some forceful changes brought about by the arrival of first Islam, and then Europeans.