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Lutyens Delhi Character
Lutyens Delhi Character
LUTYENS DELHI
Mayank Shekhawat
Vedika Agrawal
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The initial
design of
New Delhi
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Lutyens
had
initially
designed Delhi with all the
streets
crossing at right angles,
much like in New York.
However, Lord Hardinge told
him of the dust storms that
sweep the landscape in
these parts, insisting on
roundabouts, hedges and
trees to break their force,
giving him the plans of
Intentions of the
Layout:
Lutyens Delhi was planned on the most
spacious
garden
city lines
great by
The layout
of Lutyens
Delhiwith
wasthe
governed
avenues
decorated
with classical
buildings
with
three major
visual corridors,
linking
the
lush
landscape.
government
complex with :
Jama Masjid
Indraprastha
Safdarjungs Tomb
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Features
1. The plan reflects Lutyens transcendent fervour for geometric
symmetry, which is expressed through amazing sequences of
triangles
and hexagons, through sightlines and axes.
2. Lutyens plan is also
remarkable
for the generous green
spaces,
lawns, watercourses,
flower and
fruit-bearing trees,
and their
integration with
the parks developed
around
monuments.
3. The attempt was to
include all
natural and historical
wonders in
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GOVERNMENT
COMPLEX
The Rashtrapati
Lutyen's
grandiose Government House (Rashtrapati Bhawan) Bhawan
The Secretariat
COMMON
FEATURES
THICK
BAND
JALIS
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BUDDHIST
DOME
THICK
BAND
JALIS
http://monuments-in-india.blogspot.in/2009/12/rashtrapatibhavan.html
BUDDHIST
DOME
THICK
BAND
JALI
S
http://www.indiansecretsrevealed.com/secratariat-
THE HYDRABAD
HOUSE
The largest of all palaces in New Delhi a building that suited the status
of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Designed by Edwin Lutyens. The majestic
mansion had 36 rooms.
Lutyens designed Hyderabad House in the shape of a butterfly a plan
that he had first used for Papillon Hall in Leicestershire in 1903.
The main architectural feature of Hyderabad House is a dome with an
entrance hall beneath which symmetrical wings radiate at an
angle of fifty-five degrees. Its round arches flanked by rectangular
openings to the height of the impost was inspired by the
Pantheon in Rome, a city where Lutyens stayed in 1909. For the first
floor windows of the grand place, Lutyens chose a combination of
rectangular and round arches that were inspired by the Uffizi to
the Arno in Florence.
The majestic
building that boasts of courtyards, archways, obelisks,
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THE BARODA
HOUSE
THE PATIALA
HOUSE
THE JAIPUR
HOUSE
Drawbacks
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References
Books:
David Gordon (2006) Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities, : Routledge.
Robert Byron (1997) New Delhi, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.
Lucy Peck (n.d.) Delhi: a thousand years of building.
Websites:
ARCHITECTURE OF DELHI - Delhi-city in conflict. 2013. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://delhi-architecture.weebly.com/delhi-city-in-conflict.html. [Accessed 12 October
2013].
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi Design of Delhi: Edwin Lutyens. 2013. [ONLINE]
Available at: http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/design-of-delhi-edwinlutyens/. [Accessed 11 October 2013].