http://www.bahai.by/images/india.jpg

i must have underexpected New Delhi. looks similar to some south american cities, IMO

was new delhi a new city made after inderpendance like islamabad was in pakistan.

was new delhi a new city made after inderpendance like islamabad was in pakistan.

They started building it in 1911. Completed some of the main government buildings by 1939.

New Delhi Municipal Committee, Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Cantonment board are the local bodies which look after different areas of Delhi. Post independence many new areas have been built. Some like Janakpuri, Rohini, Dwaraka are pretty big and can be called big sized townships themselves.

Beyond Delhi a series of new cities and towns have been built like Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida and now Greater Noida. More and more places are being taken over by the building brigade.

Here's a map of New Delhi

http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/delhi/new-delhi-city-map.gif

The Ring Railway at the centre of the map more or less marks the core New Delhi (Connaught Place, India Gate and later extension of Chanakyapuri).

The area around red Fort is Old Delhi. It is small, heavily populated and very congested.

To the east - across river Yamuna and in Uttar Pradesh state you can see Noida, Ghaziabad. Greater Noida (not seen in map) is beyond Noida and a huge new city.

To the south in Haryana you have Gurgaon and Faridabad (neither seen in map).

Here's a map of Gurgaon (just south of Delhi). Gurgaon is seeing the rise of many new towers.

is delhi and new delhi the same thing.

is delhi and new delhi the same thing.

Delhi is the National Capital Territory (NCT). Delhi has its own state government.

New Delhi is the capital of India and it is within Delhi NCT.

There are three municipal bodies in NCT - New Delhi Municipal Committee (NDMC), Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) and Delhi Cantonment Board (DCB).

NDMC's area includes the seat of Central Government, Rashtrapati Bhawan (Presidential Palace), the Prime Minister's office and residence, Central Government offices, Foreign Missions, residences of Ministers, Members of Parliament, Diplomats and Central Government employees. It also includes Connaught Place and surroundings. There are plenty of office towers and hotels in the NDMC area.

Map of NDMC:

http://www.ndmc.gov.in/images/map.jpg

MCD on the other hand controls most of remaining area of Delhi NCT. Most of it is residentail but there are also some large commercial / office zones like Nehru Place, Cama Place, Rajendra Place, Janakpuri District Centre etc. MCD also covers Old Delhi.

DCB looks after a small cantonment area near the international airport.

The Delhi Devlopment Authority looks afer the planning and development of Delhi in coordination with the NCT government, central government and the three municipal governments/bodies.

I like those concrete buildings! :)

i like the second and third pictures! it is so green! :eek:

New Delhi is indeed very impressive because of the maidans and mughal ?architecture. What surprises me is some of the other creative relatively newer additions..

http://www.space-india.org/gallery/albums/jantar/aaw.jpg

This park looks very abstract and I love it.. hopefully they would maintain it better


http://www.bahai.by/images/india.jpg[/QUOTE]

Any more info on this Suncity ? Why don't they publicise this faith house more ? It reminds me of that building in Sydney which everyone knows.. while this building is rarely in the media

New Delhi is indeed very impressive because of the maidans and mughal ?architecture. What surprises me is some of the other creative relatively newer additions..



http://www.bahai.by/images/india.jpg
Any more info on this Suncity ? Why don't they publicise this faith house more ? It reminds me of that building in Sydney which everyone knows.. while this building is rarely in the media

Nice things about India don't sell. Who wants to see a nice new building in India? There's plenty of them in every country.

Our brand image lies in cows, rickshaws, dirty lanes and poverty. That's what we exploit and sell as exotic.

Just joking.

:-)

There are some excellent photos of the Bahai temple on the net.

lol I know there are pics of it in the net. The problem is it is seldom spoken about even in India. I have lived in Chennai for 15 years and imagine I am not even sure where the temple is and what it is all about !

Hopefully information travels a lot faster nowadays in Inda thanks to the internet !

That looks good but not great. Lacks creativity

That looks good but not great. Lacks creativity

This tower is a stone's throwaway from my home in Pitampura. Looks pretty decent from the balcony on a shiny day, but unfortunately it's restaurant/convention area is not used. Infact it never got going, and today only FM antennas adorn this building. It's a pity, this building came into existence at the height of terrorism days in Delhi in 1980's. Since then, even the airports don't allow visitors into their complexes >(. When will the fear factor go away? :(

This tower is a stone's throwaway from my home in Pitampura. Looks pretty decent from the balcony on a shiny day, but unfortunately it's restaurant/convention area is not used. Infact it never got going, and today only FM antennas adorn this building. It's a pity, this building came into existence at the height of terrorism days in Delhi in 1980's. Since then, even the airports don't allow visitors into their complexes >(. When will the fear factor go away? :(

So you are from Delhi. Good. I have several questions for you if you don't mind answering them. Let me know if you would volunteer.

So you are from Delhi. Good. I have several questions for you if you don't mind answering them. Let me know if you would volunteer.

Yes, I am from Delhi, but currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Will gladly answer your questions :)

Yes, I am from Delhi, but currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Will gladly answer your questions :)

Thanks Vimo for saying yes.

I want to make a list of highrise buildings in Delhi. How familiar are you with highrise buildings in Delhi? I know it is a difficult proposition to remember such things once you are out of a city.

For example what are these buildings...

I know the Hindustan Times (on the right) and the Naurang Bhavan (Red/Black)

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/newdelhiskyline1.jpg

The three buildings next to Gopal Bhavan

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/del-gopal.jpg

And what about Nehru Place? How many of the buildings in Nehru Place are 12 storey and higher. Same question for Janakpuri District Centre, Cama Place, Rajendra Place..

Any ideas?

The TV tower looks too plain.

And boring because of the concrete (exposed to high temperatures) made it go into a yellow colour.

The towers look alright, but the design is rather plain... Something like a simple version of KL Tower...

The towers look alright, but the design is rather plain... Something like a simple version of KL Tower...

I don't know, but the Delhi TV tower probably predates the KL tower.

Delhi TV tower represents bureacratic India - slow, lazy and half hearted.

KL Tower represents the dynamic leadership of Malaysia.

The two cannot be compared.

I just posted it because it is one of India's tallest structures.

:-)

I don't know, but the Delhi TV tower probably predates the KL tower.

Delhi TV tower represents bureacratic India - slow, lazy and half hearted.

KL Tower represents the dynamic leadership of Malaysia.

The two cannot be compared.

I just posted it because it is one of India's tallest structures.

:-)

Actually, If someone was farsighted enough, then this building can be brought to life. For starters, it can have a fresh coat of paint or murals on the concrete facade. Second, it ought to be cleaned thoroughly from the inside and the revolving restaurant + convention center
should be opened to the public. It never opened because of the security concerns, but now we do have the devices to control/monitor suspicious loiters. This property is located amidst a beautiful landscaped park cum sports complex. Just a little bit of jazzing up, and Delhi can earn loads of money from it! :)

Encapsulating pictures of New Delhi on this thread....

Secretariat Buildings

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/secretariat4.jpg

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/secretariat3.jpg

Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace)
http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/Rashtrapati.jpg

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/rashtrabhavan.jpg

The Secretariat Buildinsg and the Rashtrapati Bhavan lit up at night

http://delhi.hyatt.com/delrd/jpgs/picsbig/tour7a.jpg

Sansad Bhavan (Indian Parliament)

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/delhi-aerial-parliament1.jpg

Parliament Annexe

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/parliamentannexe.jpg

Parliament Library

http://www.larsentoubro.com/Ar2003/images/page21.jpg

India Gate

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/indiagate2s.jpg

http://delhi.hyatt.com/delrd/jpgs/picsbig/tour7b.jpg

Republic Day Parade on Rajpath

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/phtgalry/pgyr2001/pg012001/pg26jan2001/pg26jan1/p2601200110.jpg

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/phtgalry/pgyr2001/pg012001/pg26jan2001/pg26jan1/p260120019.jpg

Government Buildings

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/new_delhi_park.jpg

Jantar Mantar Observatory

http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/pictures/jantar15.jpg

http://www.space-india.org/gallery/albums/jantar/aaw.jpg

Connaught Place

http://www6.wind.ne.jp/mrfujii/eng/images/foreign/india/connaut5.jpg

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/dlf.jpg

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/newdelhiaerial2s.jpg

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/newdelhiskyline1.jpg

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/del-amba3.jpg

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/del-gopal.jpg

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/del-antriksh.jpg

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/delhiview.jpg

Photos I had taken of the new outer ring road -

A flyover

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA020_copy.gif

A park taken from a flyover -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA019_copy.gif

Roads passing under the ring-road flyovers -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA017_copy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA028_copy.gif

A beautiful Interchange section, I messed up the shots though so it's not perfect -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA009_copy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA008_copy.gif

The Rashtrapathi Bhavan -

India Gate

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA010_copy.gif

Parliment

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA014_copy.gif

Govt. buildings

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA015_copy.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA013_copy.gif

A pano shot

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/new%20delhi/AA012_copy.gif

Kshatriya.....Delhi's new roads are world class. Absolutely fabulous. I like them. They are spacious.

Kshatriya.....Delhi's new roads are world class. Absolutely fabulous. I like them. They are spacious.
Yeah and quite well managed too. The air is cleaner from the CNG public transport, and the wide and smooth roads with well planned flyovers, interchangers and underpasses have really transformed New Delhi.

Yeah and quite well managed too. The air is cleaner from the CNG public transport, and the wide and smooth roads with well planned flyovers, interchangers and underpasses have really transformed New Delhi.

Nice shots Kshatriya!

New Dheli is much more of a governing city that runs things than a livable city, but the architecture of the government buildings is always nice.

New Dheli is much more of a governing city that runs things than a livable city, but the architecture of the government buildings is always nice.
Yeah that it is....but right next door you have Gurgaon which is an entertainment hub, Noida and G.Noida which are future infotech hubs and Ghaziabad/Faridabad with plenty of real-estate activity.

Flyover

http://ddadelhi.com/image/flyovers_achievements_about.jpg

Cityscape

http://ddadelhi.com/image/commercial_building_lands.jpg

Kshatriya....Delhi's new skyline looking to get taller & taller it seems like from the images.

Post New Delhi's LOtus Temple pix here.

this temple reminds me of sdyney's opera house... i found these pics on the net...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/ILOVEMTL/india.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/ILOVEMTL/lotus-t.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v378/ILOVEMTL/lotus-temple.jpg

I myself wanted to post some pix but don't see the icon for attachment. I'm a new member. Any help on how to attach picture.

I myself wanted to post some pix but don't see the icon for attachment. I'm a new member. Any help on how to attach picture.

You cannot..

Just have to load somewhere and provide the http link under IMG tags as you have already done.

Check out this great gallery with awesome photos of developments in the NCR. All the expressways, all the big flyovers and separators, all the glass buildings. Thanks to Suraj for taking these superb and much needed pics!

Delhi-Noida Expressway (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100227.html)

Gautam Buddha Expressway (NOIDA-GREATER NOIDA) (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100230.html)

Gurgaon-New Delhi Expressway (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100276.html)

Gurgaon Buildings and Roads - The BPO Hub (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100245.html)

New Delhi Buildings and Roads - The emerging modern capital of India (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100329.html)

Noida Buildings and Roads - The future hi-tech city (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100261.html)

And one on Kerala's roads and buldings (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c100421.html).

And this - Bangalore (http://surajsphotos.fotopic.net/c141849.html)

Nice high quality photos, plenty of the new AIIMS flyover too!

Wow, nice pics, kshatriya, keep em coming. and Delhi looks so modern. wish mumbai and other cities could be like that.

Wonderful find.

Suraj may be my evil twin.

I posted it on the main forums too....


Indian.....yes Delhi is really transforming radically, it looks even better than in these photos.

kshatriya.....kudos to Delhi for transforming overnight like this. No offense to delhi but I think Mumbai is really getting short end of the stick. Its almost unfair. How can you imagine Delhi getting metro before Mumbai. Is their any city in india more deserving than Mumbai? One image of Mumbai local trains says it all. I guess its luxury being the capital city.

Anyways. I really dont care even if its Kanyakumari as far as its Indian city going all out to impress & prosper. Great!!!!

kshatriya.....kudos to Delhi for transforming overnight like this. No offense to delhi but I think Mumbai is really getting short end of the stick. Its almost unfair. How can you imagine Delhi getting metro before Mumbai. Is their any city in india more deserving than Mumbai? One image of Mumbai local trains says it all. I guess its luxury being the capital city.

Anyways. I really dont care even if its Kanyakumari as far as its Indian city going all out to impress & prosper. Great!!!!
It's frustrating all right, and there's Mumbai money in it too! But good for NCR...

Wonderful find.

Suraj may be my evil twin.
Yes at last one Indian photographer who takes some nice development pics...:-)

kshatriya.....kudos to Delhi for transforming overnight like this. No offense to delhi but I think Mumbai is really getting short end of the stick. Its almost unfair. How can you imagine Delhi getting metro before Mumbai. Is their any city in india more deserving than Mumbai? One image of Mumbai local trains says it all. I guess its luxury being the capital city.

Anyways. I really dont care even if its Kanyakumari as far as its Indian city going all out to impress & prosper. Great!!!!


If you had travelled in Delhi by those DTC buses then perhaps you would not make that statement 'Why Delhi getting metro before Mumbai". Infact it was over due for Delhi. Mumbai (and for that matter other metro cities except Delhi) , were at least having those local trains since a very long time. Delhi people were struggling in those buses only. Moreover, Delhi has more vehicles than Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennei put together. and above all don't forget it is the Capital of the country and represent whole of india. It deserve the best public transportation.

If you had travelled in Delhi by those DTC buses then perhaps you would not make that statement 'Why Delhi getting metro before Mumbai". Infact it was over due for Delhi. Mumbai (and for that matter other metro cities except Delhi) , were at least having those local trains since a very long time. Delhi people were struggling in those buses only. Moreover, Delhi has more vehicles than Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennei put together. and above all don't forget it is the Capital of the country and represent whole of india. It deserve the best public transportation.
Well have you travelled by BEST buses on broken and congested Mumbai roads? The ride is jarring and the commute is long, very long. Mumbai's local trains are a mess and too stuffed, but obviously you haven't travelled in one, or you would not make that statement "Delhi deserves the best public transportation." At least Delhi has smooth and wide roads, and it doesn't just end with the metro.....High capacity low floor buses with exclusive bus lanes, and elevated expressways are in the pipeline, things Mumbai is crying out for. Surely the "commercial capital" of the country deserves better, especially considering it's contributions to the nation? But no, it's no big deal if Delhi got a metro first, and it's great to see the phenomenal development there. But I think it's about time they gave back something to Mumbai too.

Well have you travelled by BEST buses on broken and congested Mumbai roads? The ride is jarring and the commute is long, very long. Mumbai's local trains are a mess and too stuffed, but obviously you haven't travelled in one, or you would not make that statement "Delhi deserves the best public transportation." At least Delhi has smooth and wide roads, and it doesn't just end with the metro.....High capacity low floor buses with exclusive bus lanes, and elevated expressways are in the pipeline, things Mumbai is crying out for. Surely the "commercial capital" of the country deserves better, especially considering it's contributions to the nation? But no, it's no big deal if Delhi got a metro first, and it's great to see the phenomenal development there. But I think it's about time they gave back something to Mumbai too.

And to other cities as well. Delhi is too pampered...

:jk:

And to other cities as well. Delhi is too pampered...

:jk:
Not just Delhi, the whole NCR. Then there's the gazillion Bangalore road projects, apart from the ones already completed like Hebbal separator etc. Bangalore is also getting a spanking new international airport and looks like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai all will get metros before Mumbai.

Not just Delhi, the whole NCR. Then there's the gazillion Bangalore road projects, apart from the ones already completed like Hebbal separator etc. Bangalore is also getting a spanking new international airport and looks like Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai all will get metros before Mumbai.

By the way, the NCR concept is only on papaer. It could never got started due to not coming together of UP, Haryana, MP and Rajasthan government. NCR planning board has never starting even a single project in NCR region. As per the NCR plan, the satellite towns were supposed to be developed a little away from Delhi, like Mathura (UP), Gwalior (MP), Alwar (Raj,) and some town in Haryana, to decongest Delhi. Gurgaon and Noida progressed due to their proximity to Delhi and also due to efforts of respective state goverment individually. You can use the term NCR in a generic way but the NCR concept as such is a failure due to indifferent attitute of the neighbouring state governments.

^Yeah I just use NCR as a common term for Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon etc....but thanks for the info.

^Yeah I just use NCR as a common term for Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon etc....but thanks for the info.


It's a convenient term.

The NCRPB website is out of commission too. Wonder how much money was wasted on it.

Noida is well planned city on the outskirt of Delhi. Greater Noida is going to be even more planned than even Noida. I heared that GN is having even the code for what tree you should plant outside your house and even the color code for houses. It is going to be the City of shopping Malls soon with many new and bigger malls coming up. It is already the IT city/Film City of north india. Here are some pictures of Noida Cityscape.

Shopping Malls:
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/samall.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/sub_mall_night.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/sabmall1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/102.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/galgotias.jpg

Markets:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/market1.jpg


http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/market2.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/comm/bigimages/market.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/hotels/bigimages/MC_Donala's1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/hotels/bigimages/McDonalds.jpg

Apartments:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/apt/bigimages/Flex_appt.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/apt/bigimages/big_house.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/apt/bigimages/flex_swm.jpg

GHCL:
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/G_HCL.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/G_HCL1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/G_HCL3.jpg

Corporate Tower:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/115.jpg

Indian Oil:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/indian_oil.jpg

BHarat Petrolium:
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/bharat_petroleum1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/116.jpg


http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/16-building.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/building.jpg

Xansa:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/xansa11.jpg

BSES:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/bses.jpg

NTPC:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/ntpc.jpg

GAIL:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/gail.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/sector16A.jpg

ST:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/ST.jpg

TELE-Atlas:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/tele_atlas.jpg

KRIBHCO:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/kribhco.jpg

Organosys:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/corp/bigimages/organosys1ss.jpg

Roads:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/road3.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/roadss.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/105.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/road4.jpg

Noida Entrance:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/enterance_noida.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/road.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/maya_road.jpg

Toll Bridge/DND Flyway:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/toll_brid.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/Toll_bridge1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/104.jpg

Pls note that toll plaza has Gold and Silver Lane and uses the smart chip cards sothat car drivers need not wait at the gate. Scanner/camera automatically read the card/chip from the wind-shield screen. DND Flyway also has the web-site wherein one can re-charge their card and calculate the toll on-line between given two points.
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/Toll_bridge2.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/roads/bigimages/tollff.jpg

Noida Gardens:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/parks/bigimages/park_night.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/parks/bigimages/park4.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/parks/bigimages/Ghandhi_park1.jpg
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/parks/bigimages/park_sec_37.jpg

(Golf Course):
http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/parks/bigimages/golf_coures.jpg

(Noida Film City)

(T-series)

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/film/bigimages/t-series.jpg

Eagle Studio:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/film/bigimages/eagle-films.jpg

Laxmi Studio:

http://www.noidaauthorityonline.com/photogallery/gallery_menu/film/bigimages/lakshmi-video-studio.jpg

Delhi skyline

http://ddadelhi.com/image/achievements.jpg



That ain't Delhi and don't know why DDA is pinching pics of other cities.

http://ddadelhi.com/image/commercial_complex.jpg

Not sure of this one either. Maybe VIMO can confirm.

Rastrapati Bhawan Illuminated (Another shot)

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~bagchi/lutyens.jpg

Thank you! I just joined this site, and I'm glad you guys liked my pics. I'll take more when I'm in India this winter. Hopefully I'll get to go to more places besides NCR and Kerala, especially Bangalore and Bombay.

This site has been a revelation. I've found so many great Indian infrastructure pics I never saw before despite googling all over! Great stuff, esp the amazing North Karnataka expressway and Chennai-Calcutta GQ sections.

You guys are doing an amazing job collecting all those pictures and information and posting them here for avid readers like me. Cool stuff, I really liked it. I have been reading a lot on this forum for last couple of weeks and could not resist joining it today. And BTW I totally agree that a Metro or some form of Mass rapid transit system has been long overdue in Mumbai. For god sake a city of 16 million and contributing a third of total tax collections .. let the Shanghai of India really look like one.

You guys are doing an amazing job collecting all those pictures and information and posting them here for avid readers like me. Cool stuff, I really liked it. I have been reading a lot on this forum for last couple of weeks and could not resist joining it today. And BTW I totally agree that a Metro or some form of Mass rapid transit system has been long overdue in Mumbai. For god sake a city of 16 million and contributing a third of total tax collections .. let the Shanghai of India really look like one.

Amen!

You guys are doing an amazing job collecting all those pictures and information and posting them here for avid readers like me. Cool stuff, I really liked it. I have been reading a lot on this forum for last couple of weeks and could not resist joining it today. And BTW I totally agree that a Metro or some form of Mass rapid transit system has been long overdue in Mumbai. For god sake a city of 16 million and contributing a third of total tax collections .. let the Shanghai of India really look like one.
Welcome, my like-minded friend.....:-)

Thank you! I just joined this site, and I'm glad you guys liked my pics. I'll take more when I'm in India this winter. Hopefully I'll get to go to more places besides NCR and Kerala, especially Bangalore and Bombay.

This site has been a revelation. I've found so many great Indian infrastructure pics I never saw before despite googling all over! Great stuff, esp the amazing North Karnataka expressway and Chennai-Calcutta GQ sections.
Welcome. Please post more pics, looking forward to it.....

Thank you! I just joined this site, and I'm glad you guys liked my pics. I'll take more when I'm in India this winter. Hopefully I'll get to go to more places besides NCR and Kerala, especially Bangalore and Bombay.

This site has been a revelation. I've found so many great Indian infrastructure pics I never saw before despite googling all over! Great stuff, esp the amazing North Karnataka expressway and Chennai-Calcutta GQ sections.

Your pics (first posted by Kshatriya on this forum) are great. Look forward to your pics from the next trip.

Actually, If someone was farsighted enough, then this building can be brought to life. For starters, it can have a fresh coat of paint or murals on the concrete facade. Second, it ought to be cleaned thoroughly from the inside and the revolving restaurant + convention center
should be opened to the public. It never opened because of the security concerns, but now we do have the devices to control/monitor suspicious loiters. This property is located amidst a beautiful landscaped park cum sports complex. Just a little bit of jazzing up, and Delhi can earn loads of money from it! :)

After the first Delhi Metro Line opened for public (there's a station - Netaji Subash Chandra Place - right next to the Tower), most of the areas along the line have seen a big retail boom. The Delhi Govt. can make good money if they spruced up this whole Tower and the adjoining garden and threw it open to public.

On a bright sunny day, the Metro zipping past below the TV tower is a great sight!

:)

Thanks Vimo for saying yes.

I want to make a list of highrise buildings in Delhi. How familiar are you with highrise buildings in Delhi? I know it is a difficult proposition to remember such things once you are out of a city.

For example what are these buildings...

I know the Hindustan Times (on the right) and the Naurang Bhavan (Red/Black)

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/newdelhiskyline1.jpg

The three buildings next to Gopal Bhavan

http://home.att.net/~bappu_dg/del-gopal.jpg

And what about Nehru Place? How many of the buildings in Nehru Place are 12 storey and higher. Same question for Janakpuri District Centre, Cama Place, Rajendra Place..

Any ideas?

I can help, if it's ok ... :D

I'm not sure how old these pictures are but there are new building which have popped up in CP. I don't know the names of the buildings next to GopalDas Bhawan, never bothered to know. I visit the BCL very often so will check it up for ya! :okay:

Janakpuri District Centre doesn't have a lot of buildings except for the District Centre itself. Closer to the district centre, there's Mahatta Towers which is pretty tall. Rajendra Place -- UGLY. Couple of red medium rise buildings (Suncity you got to help me differentiate between Low, Medium and High rise). Bhikaji Cama Place is my favorite, closely built buildings (sandstone covered walls?) which kind of look tres cool when you drive past on the Bhikaji Cama Flyover. There are quite a few buildings, Hyatt Regency, GAIL, and one more at the rear. Am not familiar with Nehru Place, don't know much.

Hope, I was of some help. :)

I can help, if it's ok ... :D

I'm not sure how old these pictures are but there are new building which have popped up in CP. I don't know the names of the buildings next to GopalDas Bhawan, never bothered to know. I visit the BCL very often so will check it up for ya! :okay:

Janakpuri District Centre doesn't have a lot of buildings except for the District Centre itself. Closer to the district centre, there's Mahatta Towers which is pretty tall. Rajendra Place -- UGLY. Couple of red medium rise buildings (Suncity you got to help me differentiate between Low, Medium and High rise). Bhikaji Cama Place is my favorite, closely built buildings (sandstone covered walls?) which kind of look tres cool when you drive past on the Bhikaji Cama Flyover. There are quite a few buildings, Hyatt Regency, GAIL, and one more at the rear. Am not familiar with Nehru Place, don't know much.

Hope, I was of some help. :)

It sure is ok for you to help!!!!

In fact you gotta help!!!

:-)

I am not aware of any globally accepted standard for the height of a highrise building.

In India many cities consider 5 storey + buildings as highrise. In Mumbai a seven storey + building is considered a highrise. It is relative I guess. Similary there seems to be no agreement on what's a skyscraper. I have seen TOI claim 14 storey buildings as skyscrapers.

www.emporis.com (formerly skyscrapers.com) generally accepts any building 12 storeys or more as high rise. That would be 36 metres / 120 ft or taller.

Some websites consider a 30 storey or 90 m / 300 ft + building as a skyscraper.

Hope that helps.

But if you can check those building names and number of floors that would be great.

I think the other building in Bhikaji Cama Place you are refering to is the Engineers India Bhavan. The Punjab National Bank is also at BCP.

Several pics from an ad/hoarding site -

Safdarjung flyover, Delhi

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/safdurjung-airport11.jpg

Ansal Plaza

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/an/Dscn0029.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/an/Dscn0007.jpg

Interior

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/an/Dscn0002.jpg

Bhikaji Cama Place Building

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/rr-sreenpark-kamalcienma-bhikaji/bhikaji-5.JPG


These pics give a nice idea of Delhi's streets. (MANY PICS)

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/hamun-road4.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/hamun-road5.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/hamun-road3.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/hamun-road2.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/lodhi-park.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/shahjhanroad11.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/shahjhanroad13.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/shahjhanroad9.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/indiagate-millpark-pargati/india-gate7.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/indiainnercircle1.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/lodhipark-shahjhanroad-hamunroad-sda/indiainnercircle2.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/indiagate-millpark-pargati/india-date3.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/np-lsr-gkI-gkII-punchseel/nehru-palace.JPG

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/np-lsr-gkI-gkII-punchseel/nehru-palace3.JPG

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/kamal-cynakya/cyanky5.jpg

http://www.signaturesignsmedia.com/images/np-lsr-gkI-gkII-punchseel/lsr4.jpg

why does indian cities always look dusty?

why does indian cities always look dusty?

Because there is a lot of dust (various reasons).

Also the municipality and the multitude of government agencies that "look after the city" don't do any regular maintenance or cleaning work.

You can immediately say that a photo is of an Indian city by looking at the edge between pavements (if they exist) and the road..there will be plenty of dust.

;-)

Should go into the roads thread, but will post here till its moved...

Delhi-Pilani. Part of Delhi-Mumbai GQ I believe. Looks awesome.

http://bitsaa.org/albums/pilanidays/DelhiPilaniHighway_001.jpg

They have left no central median or shoulders on either side (of course this may be a rail bridge)...And look at that truck..it's not in its lane.. that answers your lane question in the mumbai thread.


And look at those people.. they seem to be crossing Delhi streets like it's their backyard.

As long as their is no civic sense, discipline and pride amongst the janata, Indian cities will continue to look shoddy.

:-)

They have left no central median or shoulders on either side (of course this may be a rail bridge)...And look at that truck..it's not in its lane.. that answers your lane question in the mumbai thread.

The problem of a narrow medium isn't a big deal. Several US expressway stretches have a W-beam or those concave conical-profile blocks as a divider. That road is still expressway standard, IMHO.

As for lanes, that truck may be moving to the driving lane to let the car carrying the photographer pass. Another explanation is that you can take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink :) Yet another explanation is that you're just nitpicking to rile me up ;) I don't see it as a reason not to have lanes properly demarcated and frequently repainted, on every road. Driver's will figure things out in due course.

And look at those people.. they seem to be crossing Delhi streets like it's their backyard.

As long as their is no civic sense, discipline and pride amongst the janata, Indian cities will continue to look shoddy.

:-)

I don't think this problem has a nearterm solution. We have a large population. Our cities are crowded, badly planned and have decrepit infrastructure. If a road is an arterial city road, there are several solutions to keep pedestrians off, ranging from fencing off sidewalks from road and build regular overbridges on the cheaper end, to building an elevated road on the more expensive end, where the ground level is 'aam junta level' meant for pedestrians, bicyclists and anything else.

I'm not really bothered about madpedestrianitis. Its not a high priority. Quick fixes like fenced off pedestrian sidewalks are sufficient for most roads for now. If we build proper integrated road systems that allow organized flow of traffic and improve driving speeds to 50km/h or more at least in regular sections, it will act as a natural deterrent for all except the foolhardy and suicidal. Pedestrians largely walk across at will because the cars themselves are barely moving.

Yet another explanation is that you're just nitpicking to rile me up ;)

Not really. Just expressing my frustrations with the mess. Where better to vent than here?

:-)

Is Delhi really that clean. Looks very good for an Indian city.Delhi's streets look so good, with those trees. Wish they could do the same everywhere. And that GQ section is amazing. Most of the parts of the GQ look like expressway. Are they xways.Delhi is kinda like London. Not many tall buildings, but great city.

Is Delhi really that clean. Looks very good for an Indian city.Delhi's streets look so good, with those trees. Wish they could do the same everywhere. And that GQ section is amazing. Most of the parts of the GQ look like expressway. Are they xways.Delhi is kinda like London. Not many tall buildings, but great city.

Indian, the New Delhi core area (aka NDMC area, aka Lutyens Bunglow zone) roads are very neat and clean. and the CLEANEST roads in New Delhi are in Chanakya Puri/Diplomatic Enclave area where all foreign embassy's are located. You can compare roads in this area with any western capital city. You will not even find dust on these roads.

Poor quality pics..

:-(

Birla Building

http://www.cleanindiagroup.com/images/cradle_photogal/new_delhi/nd_big_birla.jpg

Sachivalaya

http://www.cleanindiagroup.com/images/cradle_photogal/new_delhi/nd_big_sachivalaya.jpg

Capital Court

http://www.cleanindiagroup.com/images/cradle_photogal/new_delhi/nd_big_capitalcourt.jpg

Scope Towers

http://www.saint-gobain-glass.com/in/images/gallary/03-Scope-Towers.jpg

Capital Court again..

http://www.thermosash.co.nz/agencies/images/Capital_Court-2.jpg

Great Eastern Centre

http://www.thermosash.co.nz/agencies/images/gt.jpg

Namgal Institute

http://www.thermosash.co.nz/agencies/images/namgal.jpg

NIIT

http://www.niit.com/niit/contentadmin/NWS/NWSKIT/NWSKIT4/gallery/athena/NIIT-building3.jpg


Parivesh Bhawan

http://www.cpcb.nic.in/big_cpcb.jpg


VSNL

http://www.pib.nic.in/archieve/phtgalry/pgyr98/pg0898/p1308981.jpg


http://www.competent-maruti.com/images/sub/ccc.jpg

http://www.competent-maruti.com/images/sub/ccc1.jpg

British Council

http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/images/1107.jpg

The Brit Counsulate looks like a Gateway Computer retail outlet.

Ya think they may have some cross-corporate-sponsorship? :eek:
http://www.pendletons.com/GatewayCountry.jpg

;)

Delhi skyline

http://community.webshots.com/s/image4/4/11/70/70441170JSdSNS_ph.jpg

http://community.webshots.com/s/image5/9/94/46/66399446bevyii_ph.jpg

Nice road in New Delhi

http://www.hindustantimes.com/wfsf/high/2004/08.22/images/high963845.jpg

IG Airport Interior

http://orthanc.zender.rwth-aachen.de/journeys/north-india/13-35-delhi-airport.jpg

Delhi view

http://image04.webshots.com/4/4/11/70/70441170JSdSNS_fs.jpg

^ WOW!! Aks that's an awesome pic!! Great find!

http://www2.am.uni-erlangen.de/~kocvara/personal/india/cd1/img-19.3.jpg

http://www2.am.uni-erlangen.de/~kocvara/personal/india/cd1/img-2.3.jpg

http://www2.am.uni-erlangen.de/~kocvara/personal/india/cd1/img-12.3.jpg

ha ha, the first picture sums up the mystique that India is. our Gajraj is crossing the street with mercs and marutis.

Which reminds me, i think Delhi has done a poor job keeping the stray cattle and dog population in the city under check. Its like they follow totally different policies for the older parts of the city and the new ones.

Is Delhi really as green as in the pictures.

Is Delhi really as green as in the pictures.

New Delhi is pretty green.

BHEL

http://www.aesltd.com.au/images/BHEL_Rooftop.jpg

Berjaya House

http://www.thenags.com/images/pictures/enlarge/Berjaya/Berjaya_house_small.jpg

Videocon Tower

http://www.thenags.com/images/pictures/enlarge/Videocon-Tower/Videocon-Tower_small.jpg

Many of Delhi's highrise and midrise buildings are hotels..

Le Meridien

http://www.lemeridien-newdelhi.com/imgs/main/extview.jpg

Taj Palace & Convention Centre

http://www.indiabuildnet.com/arch/kadri_3.jpg

Tajmahal Hotel

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/tajhotel.jpg

Oberoi Hotel

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/oberoidelhi3.jpg

Shangri La Hotel

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/kanishkahotel1.jpg

Indraprastha

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/indraprastha.jpg

Grand Intercontinental

http://www.thegrandhotels.net/upload/Exterior.jpg

Crowne Plaza Surya

http://suryadelhi.crowneplaza.com/ndesu/picsbig/newcps01p001.jpg

Park Royal Intercontinental

http://newdelhi.intercontinental.com/nehic/picsbig/newint13p001.jpg

Hyatt

http://delhi.hyatt.com/delrd/jpgs/picsbig/tour1c.jpg

Marriott

http://marriott.com/propertyimages/d/delmc/phototour/delmc_phototour01.jpg

Metropolitan Nikko

http://www.hotelnikkodelhi.com/facadeday_1.jpg

Satillite Image. Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.

http://www.ersdac.or.jp/ASTERimage3/Image/Asia/DEL_NewDelhi.jpg

Vasant Continental

http://www.jaypeehotels.com/images/vasant_main.jpg

Siddharth

http://www.jaypeehotels.com/images/siddharth-acco-top-dayshot.jpg

Nice thread!

This is a very majestic picture. What is that arch called and what is its significance?
http://www2.am.uni-erlangen.de/~kocvara/personal/india/cd1/img-12.3.jpg

The arch is the India Gate. it contains the name of Indian soldiers who were sacrficed in WW-1. It also has the eternal flame.

eternal flame..is that lit up everynight? or a real flame?

I am not sure actually.

*************Imperial Delhi : The Legacy of British Empire**********


http://www.viaggiaresempre.it/02NewDelhi.JPG


There are cities that are built as capitals & then there are cities that are forged through History. The latter ones are very few. Delhi is one of them. Its the Indian subcontinents' answer to Beijing, Cairo, Istanbul, London, Moscow, Paris, Rome. Delhi is forged by its conquerers, admirers & lovers. From the footprints of Asoka the great to ailing Mughal Empire of Bahadur Shah Zafar, From Iron Pillar to Red Fort, From Qutub Minar to India Gate, From Sultanate to Imperialism, Rising & Falling empires have left its imprints on this incredible city. Delhi is not just the most important city of South Asia, It is also a seat of the Worlds Largest Democracy.

Initially, I was a bit confused about where to start because Delhi has incredible architectural history, be it Mughal, British, Sultanate, Tombs, Temples, Mosque, Forts. Then I realised the best is to go backwards in history from New Delhi to Indraprastha (B.C.). & it also gives me a chance to let the viewers know that Delhi is not "just" a Mughal Capital City. There is lot more to Delhi than meets the eye :)


*********************INDIA GATE*****************************


http://www.thallius.com/galeries/galerie2/images/l18.jpg


http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jay/creative/India_trip_2003/IndiaGate02.JPG


Built by British to honor the Indian (undivided India) soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. Its the most identifiable landmark of New Delhi.


http://www.cerc.utexas.edu/~jay/creative/India_trip_2003/IndiaGate01.JPG

http://ee.tamu.edu/~aravindg/trek04/Delhi/slides/india%20gate.JPG

http://stephen.d.stewart.users.btopenworld.com/comex/longdusty/graphics/205comj.jpg

http://www.pgsindia.net/photos/New%20Delhi%20India%20Gate%20&%20Monument.jpg

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/world/0509/0509_19.jpg

http://www.tiger-club.ch/weltreise/asia/2002-08-31-3.jpg

http://www.tonyharte.com/India/Sightseeing/India%20Gate/India_IndiaGate9.jpg

http://www.eindiatourism.com/image-of-delhi-india/gif/india-gate3-big.jpg

http://www.eindiatourism.com/image-of-delhi-india/gif/india-gate4-big.jpg

http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/India/Delhi/India_arch_detail.jpg

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20041025/capt.sge.uvo72.251004120017.photo00.photo.default-255x384.jpg

http://www.astravel.ru/active/asia/photo_india/gate.jpg

http://gjandot.free.fr/photos/inde/indiagate.jpg

http://www.nduring.com/pictures/photos/11_India_Gate.jpg

http://www.g-t-n.de/Graphics/Specials/indien/indiagate80a.jpeg

http://www.artistudio.narod.ru/india_in_nature/slides6x6/india_gate_01.jpg

http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~handel/travel/india99/delhi/images/10-10-18.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1071868699709_2003/12/20/india_gate,0.jpg

http://www.scottjoaquim.net/nepal/images/011_10a_indiagate.jpg

Two Hotels of Imperial Time:

Hotel Imperial

Built in 1931 as the most luxurious Hotel in New Delhi, The Imperial showcases a unique blend of Victorian, old Colonial and informal Art Deco. Among Asia's finest hotels, The Imperial, spread over sprawling gardens, offers a unique experience embracing history and modern conveniences.


http://www.preferredhotels.com/hotel_images2/DELTI.jpg

Hotel Oberoi Maidens

This historic turn of the century hotel, situated amidst spacious gardens in the heart of old Delhi, is renowned for its gracious elegance and old world charm. A jewel of colonial architecture set amidst eight acres of emerald green lawns, The Oberoi Maidens has retained its old world charm down the years. The setting of many a historic event, The Oberoi Maidens played host to the late Duke of Windsor in 1927, when a ball was held in his honour.

http://www.planetholiday.com/Hoteldatabase/images/HotelPhotos/Hotel8147.jpg

Sorry , i could not find better images of these colonial hotels.

eternal flame..is that lit up everynight? or a real flame?

Eternal flame has been burning perennially since 1971. Now it burns on gas. The Indian Oil Corporation runs a permanent gas pipeline under the monument.

In fact, there is a similar flame burning in Amritsar at the jallianwalan Bagh Memorial since 2000.

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images/0056.jpg

Dr Gopal Das Bhavan

http://www.olympuselevators.com/images/clients1big.jpg

Maurya Sheraton

http://www.starwood.com/en_US/Media/Graphics/Brands/Sheraton/Properties/423/images/aime423ex1_lg.jpg

http://www.hotels-in-delhi.net/images/Maurya_Sheraton_Delhi.jpg

The Park Hotel

http://www.theparkhotels.com/park/images/del_27.jpg

http://www.theparkhotels.com/park/images/home-page-.jpg

http://www.theparkhotels.com/park/images/del_iatp_27.jpg

The Ashok Hotel

http://www.theashokgroup.com/images/ashok-img.jpg

http://www.car-taxi-hire-india.com/hotels-in-delhi/images/hotel-ashok.jpg

Samrat Hotel

http://www.theashokgroup.com/images/smarat00_hotel.jpg

Centaur (sold)

http://www.asiahotelroom.com/pic/chb1.jpg

Radisson

http://128.121.48.70/images/hotels/delrad/3large.jpg

The Grand, New Delhi

http://www.thegrandnewdelhi.com/pic/facade.jpg

Eternal flame has been burning perennially since 1971. Now it burns on gas. The Indian Oil Corporation runs a permanent gas pipeline under the monument.

In fact, there is a similar flame burning in Amritsar at the jallianwalan Bagh Memorial since 2000.

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Images/0056.jpg

thanks for the info, its amazing

Delhi-Noida Xpway

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/thegorelord/DNDflyway.bmp

I wish that we had expressways like that connecting the whole country.

I wish that we had expressways like that connecting the whole country.

The problem with xpressways is that they are exclusive. You pay toll and get access. This still leaves the vast majority of people outside. Also, once xpressways are financially successful, more and more xpressway projects comeup, while the ordinary roads get neglected. So, in effect, the vast majority of Indians will then remain disconnected and neglected. What, we in India need is good public roads and highways in general. Xpressways are successful only within the cities or in short distances like Mumbai-Pune, Bangalore-Mysore and so on...They are never a solution inplace of national highways

http://image04.webshots.com/4/6/94/61/70169461vXEERC_fs.jpg

IIT Delhi Main Building:

http://image03.webshots.com/3/1/2/81/93210281pattiP_ph.jpg

Delhi skyline (Repeated pic)

http://community.webshots.com/s/image5/9/94/46/66399446bevyii_ph.jpg

Connaught Place

http://www.igougo.com/photos/journal_photos/Connaught%20Place0001.jpg

CP Metro construction

http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/pics/india-2003/pimg_0675.jpg

Parliament

http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/pics/india-2003/pimg_0654.jpg


http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/pics/india-2003/pimg_0655.jpg

Metro

http://images.webster-dictionary.org/wiki/f/f5/DelhiMetro.jpg

http://image12.webshots.com/13/2/92/26/142429226JtCSOQ_ph.jpg

Delhi's skyline looks decent in the last pic.

After endless pics of cows, ganna juice sellers, fruit sellers, roadside barbers, PCO booths, beggars, and more cows; I found these -

Gurgaon

http://www.ttsai.net/gallery/albums/2004_gurgaon/DSC01810.jpg

http://www.ttsai.net/gallery/albums/2004_gurgaon/DSC01803.jpg

http://www.ttsai.net/gallery/albums/2004_gurgaon/DSC02015.jpg

Delhi

Lotus Temple

http://www.ttsai.net/gallery/albums/2004_delhi/DSC01848.jpg

Red Fort

http://www.ttsai.net/gallery/albums/2004_delhi/DSC01961.jpg

btw,does anybody know about the construction project at Connaught Place? when is it finished?

btw,does anybody know about the construction project at Connaught Place? when is it finished?

Are you referring to Metro Rail?

The capital of rampant consumption
November 20, 2004
Sunil Sethi

http://us.rediff.com/money/2004/nov/20guest1.htm

It is not quite midnight but the scene outside two deluxe hotels in Delhi earlier this week provides ample evidence that Delhi is on a fast-moving, fast-spending jamboree.

There are about a hundred guests milling about in the vast portico of each, either trying to get in or out, without the loss of a Fendi handbag or a Ferragamo shoe. The lineup of cars is six deep, many of them gleaming Mercedes or BMW, and stretches far down tree-lined drives out on to the main streets.

Inside, past gleaming plate glass doors, gone are the days of making a graceful, understated entry or exit. It is a scramble, as jostling hordes try to make their way to various points in the building. What is going on -- an international conference, a state visit, or a minister's son's wedding? Actually, it could be all the three. Delhi is just having another party. Night after night the scene is the same, with every hotel and restaurant packed like sardine cans.

The chattering classes are gorging themselves on delicacies such as quail in rich wine and raisin sauce, roistering under garden tables dripping with canopies of freshly-dyed orchids and thronging the bars with limitless supplies of liquor.

"Le Beaujolais noveau est arrive!" shouts one invitation this week -- and wouldn't you know that it's the third Thursday of November when the wine presses in distant France annually uncork their fresh harvest?

If you live in Delhi, the undisputed capital of conspicuous consumption, you can learn something every day. The newly-issued Good Food Guide to Delhi and its suburbs lists more than 1,500 restaurants and bars. It now comes accompanied by a separate Leisure and Nightclub Guide.

On average, the price per head at a lavish dinner party at a five-star hotel is Rs 2,000. Hotel waiters may complain that they have been kept from a good night's sleep for months but hotel managers say they have never had it so good.

"Our banquet halls and public spaces are booked solid till the end of March 2005," says a manager, all smiles. "And," he adds with relish, "profits from food and beverage now run neck-to-neck with guest occupancy rates and often outperform them."

"Chanel Opens Early 2005" reads the bold announcement in one hotel shopping arcade. Just think back how the shape and style of the Indian hotel corridor has changed. Rapidly disappearing are the little shops that peddled Kashmir shawls, Jaipur enamel, Moradabad brass, and Assam tea to tentative tourists to be replaced by wall-to-wall Louis Vuitton and Hugo Boss.

Ravi Thakran, regional managing director of LVMH, the luxury goods conglomerate that owns a variety of brands from Christian Dior to Tag Heuer watches, has even classified the Indian consumer of luxury goods into four distinct categories: the connoisseur, the status-seeker, the young and fashionable, and the functionalist.

Old money, new money, funny money or even yummy money are, in fact, losing their social distinctions or purchasing power restrictions. Who after all would yearn for Nokia's new range of jewel-studded cellphones, priced between Rs 242,000 and Rs 371,000 a piece? Going by Thakran's classification, at least three of the four in his listed species could be willing to fork out.

As if on cue, Calvin Klein, the world's unchallenged "King of Knickers", arrived in the capital last week to set the designer world aflutter.

The 62-year-old, Bronx-born designer -- tall, reed-thin and with his lazy Uptown drawl intact -- who's built a Fortune 500 company in designing and marketing everything from couture to underwear, was generous enough to swap ideas with a group of leading names from the Indian fashion world. It was fascinating to be present at the small, informal interaction.

What could have been a knowledgeable, worldly and sharp exchange of ideas about design, marketing, brand-building and going global, turned out, in fact, to be a one-way street, with the Indian group venting a number of complaints -- from lack of capital to lack of backers among the fat cats of Indian industry.

Calvin Klein was sympathetic up to point. Their problems were no different, he said, from designers anywhere else in the world. He urged them to work harder to establish their niche markets and consolidate their brands.

India was too big and buoyant a market for them not to succeed. But when asked if the arrival of the Calvin Klein brand would squeeze them, he was blunt. "There's room for everybody. Choice is always good."

As competition warms up in the capital of conspicuous consumption, the customer simply can't have enough.

Are you referring to Metro Rail?

yeap.. aks posted this picture from CP-metro u/c but it is from sept 2003,..trying to find a picture that is from summer-2004 and to see how far the project has come:)

http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/pics/india-2003/pimg_0675.jpg

I will see if I find any (doubtful).

Meanwhile here are some Delhi pics by Aman Ahuja.

DLF and Jeevan Bharati

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhiskyline200.jpg

Palika (NDMC), Park Hotel, DLF

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhiskyline250.jpg

Palika II (Have they commissioned this yet?)

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhiskyline251.jpg

Another pic of the skyline (when it comes to desi skyline pics, agencies tend to choose a cloudy day!)

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhiskylinecloudy1.jpg

Rajghat entry by Brent Vallat

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/rajghat1.jpg

Dandi March by Svenigalla

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/dandimarch.jpg

Amby on a Delhi Street

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/ambydelhi.jpg

Pictures of Old Delhi are available in plenty..this one by sunflowerimaging. And notice how the sun shines bright here..

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/olddelhi3.jpg

Comment on Palika II building posted by Suncity:

This was supposed to be the New Delhi's tallest building during planning stage, guess approx 50+ floors or so but then many agencies raised objection that it's shadow will fall on Jantar Mantar.Jantar Mantar depends upon sun-light for its functioning. The height was curtailed but even then it was 20+ or so. But the picture posted here seems to be of even lesser height.

Comment on Palika II building posted by Suncity:

This was supposed to be the New Delhi's tallest building during planning stage, guess approx 50+ floors or so but then many agencies raised objection that it's shadow will fall on Jantar Mantar.Jantar Mantar depends upon sun-light for its functioning. The height was curtailed but even then it was 20+ or so. But the picture posted here seems to be of even lesser height.

Here's what I had read about it in this article dated Feb 7, 2004).

http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/08/stories/2004020806280400.htm

Then there is NDMC's another infamous project -- New Delhi City Centre (NDCC) Phase- II - that still awaits completion even after 10 years since its construction began. Conceived in 1992, the foundation stone of the 11-storey commercial project was laid way back on February 16, 1994 ,and was to be completed in four years at an estimated cost of Rs.61.60 crores.

But due to delay, the project's cost has kept on escalating and it is now likely to touch around Rs.100 crores. And that is not all. The undue delay has already cost the NDMC a revenue loss of Rs.125 crores as the new building was to fetch the Council Rs.25 crores as annual revenue.

And the lazy babus were still working on it in May 2004...though why on "temporary toilets" is a mystery to me

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER (C-VI)

NDMC; CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

NDCC PHASE II ; SITE OFFICE

SANSAD MARG : NEW DELHI.

TENDER NOTICE

Executive Engineer (C-VI) invites on behalf of New Delhi Municipal Council sealed item rate tenders from approved and eligible class V contractors (holding valid registration certificate of approved class) of NDMC and those of appropriate class of CPWD/MES/Railways/P&T/DDA/MCD state PWD for work

Const. Of New Delhi City Centre Phase II

SH: C/o Temporary toilet at the site of NDCC Phase II for office use at an estimated cost of Rs.86,018.00 with a time of completion of 45 days. The contractors registered in other organizations shall get themselves registered in NDMC before they are paid first running bill. Earnest money of Rs.1720.00 must accompany the tender as specified in condition 8 of Notice Inviting Tender (Form 6).

Tender documents can be had by eligible contractors on production of duly receipted NDMC treasury challan of Rs.150/- each (non-refundable) between 11.00 A.M. to 2.00 P>M. on all working days between 5.5.2004 to 7.5.2004 from the office of undersigned or from the tender Issue Cell at Palika Kendra. The tenders will be received back in his office upto 4.00 P.M. on 11.5.2004 and opened at 4.30 P.M. on the same day.

hey great pictures Suncity!!

Palika II looks cool,,wonder how it will look in the night:)

Very nice Delhi pics. Central/South Delhi is very photogenic, with unique buildings and wide avenues. The haze in those pictures is not mere cloudy weather but fog. Its the worst problem about photography in Delhi in winter, and it significantly affected my own ability to take good pictures last Dec/Jan. The air quality is fine these days - certainly nothing like the atrocious smog when I was there in the late 1990s. All those CNG-powered public transport vehicles certainly helped.

the country is experiencing great progress

Comment on Palika II building posted by Suncity:

This was supposed to be the New Delhi's tallest building during planning stage, guess approx 50+ floors or so but then many agencies raised objection that it's shadow will fall on Jantar Mantar.Jantar Mantar depends upon sun-light for its functioning. The height was curtailed but even then it was 20+ or so. But the picture posted here seems to be of even lesser height.

Somehow I cannot forsee real tall buildings in either central or new delhi. Gurgaon is good for that! I mean look at the buildings: the designs are more artistic than "modern". Besides, skyscrapers look good in clusters, and Delhi doesn't have the space for these clusters. Then again, most offices have actually moved to South Delhi - so it makes more sense to have commercial towers in these parts of the Delhi. Let Central Delhi remain a shopper's and tourist's paradise!

Somehow I cannot forsee real tall buildings in either central or new delhi. Gurgaon is good for that! I mean look at the buildings: the designs are more artistic than "modern". Besides, skyscrapers look good in clusters, and Delhi doesn't have the space for these clusters. Then again, most offices have actually moved to South Delhi - so it makes more sense to have commercial towers in these parts of the Delhi. Let Central Delhi remain a shopper's and tourist's paradise!

Delhi falls in a highly sesmic zone (earth quake prone region) and hence has a hight restriction on buildings. Also, Lutyen's Bunglow zone is prohibited for high rises. May be that's the reason why new delhi does not have many high-rise buildings. but then that sesmic zone theory should be true for Gurgaon as well.

Central/South Delhi simply isn't a place where highrises would 'fit'. It has a character all of its own, with a preponderance of massive government buildings and bungalows. Besides land acquisition and other clearances would be a nightmare, as south/central Mumbai has demonstrated, including the case of Lata Mangshkar moaning about her throat. For now I'd say just let it be. New Delhi already looks like a 'capital city'. Why try to make it look like a techno/financial center ?

If you want highrises, the best option is to build it in a satellite/extension area from scratch. In Delhi's case, that means Gurgaon. NOIDA and a whole swath of territory in business-friendly Haryana near the upcoming 130km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway that will connect NH1, NH10 and NH8. If UP gets its act together and helps develop NOIDA further (i.e. no redistricting antics and scandals over expressways) and also develops more satellite towns in its part of the ring around Delhi, it can also contribute to highrise areas.

Ideally I'd like to see New Delhi left as it is, except for a holistic efficient transportation network, including multiple ring road expressways and radiating trunk roads, with the glass & steel being in several clusters all around, outside of the 2nd (currently outer) ring road. And yeah, clean up Old Delhi as well, which means leaving the historic monuments alone but replacing the atrocious densely packed rundown buildings and choked streets with something more liveable.

Mumbai is a different case. The south/central area demands improvement, but there are too many vested interests. Developments cannot be battered through. But I still believe its possible. The way to do it is, in my opinion, make them turn around and want it. That means essentially leaving south/central Mumbai with minimal incremental improvements while drastically ramping up infrastructure development in Navi Mumbai and beyond, where they can build from scratch. Let the south/central Mumbaikars see the 'stepchild' suddenly looking a lot better than them, and then let reverse psychology take its course.

The core area of New Delhi is okay. But they should improve the business districts like Nehru Place at least. How did the capital city of India which is loaded with city planners and top architects allow such depressing and drab buildings to come up in Nehru Place is a question. What were they thinking? I think it's the same in the other business districts too.

I haven't seen any pictures of Nehru Place with its several towers. There are few pics of the Intercontinental, IFCI and International tower but not of the whole place. It should look nice in photos at least.

The core area of New Delhi is okay. But they should improve the business districts like Nehru Place at least. How did the capital city of India which is loaded with city planners and top architects allow such depressing and drab buildings to come up in Nehru Place is a question. What were they thinking? I think it's the same in the other business districts too.

I haven't seen any pictures of Nehru Place with its several towers. There are few pics of the Intercontinental, IFCI and International tower but not of the whole place. It should look nice in photos at least.

Actually Nehru Place became a commercial center by "accident-of-location". There are only 5 or 6 buildings, and 1 big open-air commercial arcade with offices on upper floors. Everything in Dhaulpuri stone. Anyways, Nehru Place architecture resembles much like Rajendra Place and other such community centers, spread allover Delhi. The real CBD with cluster of offices is only now coming up, in the form of Gurgaon...Nehru Place is history as far as it's CBD function is concerned!

. The real CBD with cluster of offices is only now coming up, in the form of Gurgaon...Nehru Place is history as far as it's CBD function is concerned!

I guess so. But they should spruce up NP.

I guess so. But they should spruce up NP.

You won't believe, but I have seen it with my own eyes: The tallest building in NP has tonnes of garbage around it, sprayed like a necklace. And not to mention, paan spits and cow-dung and what not. NP is so cramped, and yet the dirt and garbage around it, reminds you some long forgotten ghost town. Gosh, how can people live like that...one literally steps into garbage. And, then what's the point of sprucing up these community centers, if they'll become what they already are: garbage dumps!

By that yardstick, Gurgaon buildings are still holding on. I guess it all depends: If you make things beautiful, they remain beautiful. Maybe, we shouldn't be so hard on people; maybe public architecture got what it deserved. :)

Eros Corporate Towers

http://www.eros-group.com/images/piccorporate.jpg

Intercontinental Park Royal

http://www.eros-group.com/images/picparkroyal.jpg

International Trade Tower & American Plaza

http://www.eros-group.com/images/picitt.jpg

Modi Tower (terrible)

http://www.modigroup.com/modibldgsmall.jpg

IFCI

http://www.ifciltd.com/IMAGES/ifci_tower_daytime.jpg

Yeah, Modi Tower is the one I was referring to in my previous post.

Hopefully this works out...

The fall of the Lutyens
VINEETA PANDEY

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2004 11:42:21 PM ]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/929483.cms

NEW DELHI: Lutyens' Delhi's last vacant lush spot will soon make way for a brand new concrete structure. The 7.7 acres in Central Vista — next to Nirman Bhawan, belonging to the ministry of external affairs — will now house the Rs 147-crore state-of-the-art Jawaharlal Nehru Videsh Bhawan.

CPWD, which has bagged the project after beating some of the country's top architects to the job, will begin work as soon as it gets the green signal from DDA, DUAC, NDMC, CFO and the Central Vista Committee. The plot had been lying vacant for the last 12 years for want of an 'agreeable' design.

The building, expected to be completed in 30 months, will be a modern replica of Lutyens' architecture in the Central Vista. "It's the contemporary translation of Lutyens' work," said a CPWD official.

cAs all the other buildings in Central Vista were made earlier, we could only renovate them in an attempt to modernise. But there is no doubt that Jawaharlal Nehru Videsh Bhawan will be one of the best in the Capital," said the official.

The building will have plush wooden flooring, terrace gardens, structural glazings, conferencing facilities, video walls, fire fighting-access control systems that work through sensors.

The landscaping has been planned to match the Central Vista greenery.

The building's exterior will be a combination of red sandstone and Ashlar work with Dholpur stone.

Suncity..cool! and renderings of the project?:)

Suncity..cool! and renderings of the project?:)

No..I doubt we will see one before the completion of the project..

:-(

No..I doubt we will see one before the completion of the project..

:-(

yeah..thats my fear to:(
..and the project has to get clearance from all the departments...lets hope for the best.

Some not so good Nehru Place pictures:

http://www.chestertonmeghraj.com/images/nehru_place2.jpg
http://www.cclindia.com/expertise/images/Nehruplace-2.jpg
http://www.cclindia.com/expertise/images/Nehruplace-1.jpg

Some other buildings:

http://thenags.com/images/pictures/enlarge/Videocon-Tower/Videocon-Tower.jpg
http://thenags.com/images/projects/Berjaya/Berjaya_house_big.jpg

yeap.. aks posted this picture from CP-metro u/c but it is from sept 2003,..trying to find a picture that is from summer-2004 and to see how far the project has come:)


I am not sure but these are probably more recent pics of CP area..

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhimetro2.jpg


http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/delhimetro4.jpg

And here's a view of Nehru place from Intercontinental..

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/viewfrominter.jpg

The Imperial Hotel...one of the classic heritage hotels of New Delhi..

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial001.jpg

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial013.jpg

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial009.jpg

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial006.jpg

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial011.jpg

http://www.busybrit.com/photos/india/big/imperial010.jpg

Mughal Gardens, Rashtrapati Bhavan

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavan-grounds.jpg

Gardens

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavan-grounds2.jpg

Rashtrapati Bhavan

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavanNight.jpg

The Sachivalaya Buildings

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavanNight2.jpg

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavanNight3.jpg

http://eces.colorado.edu/~anubhati/pix/bhavan-grounds1.jpg

Is it just me or Rashtrapati Bhavan is better than White House. I think so. Great looking Mughal Garden & night view. Folks in Washington D.C. can learn something here.

RB is way way bigger and better than the WH. But interesting that you mention Dc in the context of Delhi since when Lutyens was designing the layout of New Delhi, he drew inspiration from DC. I remember seeing early sketches made by him that would have made New Delhi look even more than DC than it does. Specifically, the hexagonal layout of ND is inspired by DC.

WOW! Awesome pictures guys! :cheers:

Is it just me or Rashtrapati Bhavan is better than White House. I think so. Great looking Mughal Garden & night view. Folks in Washington D.C. can learn something here.

I think the reason why the Presidential palace is larger than the WH, is that New Delhi was made from a colonial view point - to put Indians in awe of their colonial rulers. So the Viecergal lodge dominates the scenario along with the Secretariat blocks. WH was built in a free nation where the Capitol dominates the scene.

The Mall in the DC is very similar to the Kingsway (Raj Path area) - both French inspirations I guess.

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Here's an interesting article I found on the net

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/03/13/stories/2003031300110100.htm

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Andreas Volwahsen considers Sir Edwin Lutyens, the chief architect of Imperial Delhi, as "perhaps the last well known architect who gave what the clients wanted and not imposed his own ideas." From castles to banks to villas to workers' flats, none of his architectural examples were similar, "for each project demanded a different handling."

"If you look at a bank he designed in London in a treasure box style, some workers' flats, again in London, giving a very modern-day look and then completely different appearances in the forms of Florentine villas and French castles, none of the buildings look the same. That shows he was the servant of the task and not of his taste," infers Volwahsen, an Indophile whose love affair with India goes back to three decades.

Coming out with a well-researched, informative book on Lutyens' buildings in the Capital, "Imperial Delhi" - released by Timeless Books this week - the Harvard University-trained German historian, however, finds Lutyens best bloomed while planning the city of Delhi, though pushing a bit his own likes and dislikes into the imperial project.

"When the word spread in England that the new capital of imperial India, Delhi, needs an architect for town planning, many tried to corner the job. But Sir Lutyens managed it, perhaps because he was the son-in-law of former viceroy Lord Lytton. Lutyens planned most of the architectural designs before coming to Delhi and interestingly, enormous similarities are found between the Roman edifices and those built by him in Delhi," says Volwahsen.

The author says, Lutyens copied the Roman style not just for the sake of it but to give an imperial grandeur to the city, "a sense of classicism, order and institutional beauty in tandem with the British ego."

"So, if you tally the St. Peter's tomb in Rome and the earlier drawings of the Viceroy's House in Delhi, it has similar lay-outs. The Durbar Hall at Rashtrapati Bhawan has work on the roof exactly like that of the Pantheon," informs Volwahsen, pointing out to the numerous sketches - about 330 of them in total - that he gathered for the Rs. 4,500 book. Besides Roman influence, Lutyens too was swayed by French architecture besides picking up a few ideas some buildings in Washington of yore.

"Look at the Champs Elysees and the King's way in Delhi," he says, with a glint in his eye giving away the high degree of enjoyment at finding the fact. Though Volwahsen, the writer of another well-researched tome, "Cosmic Architecture in India: The Astronomical Monument of Maharaja Jai Singh II," rummaged through many well-known libraries in Britain, the best documents he gathered were from the Central Public Works Department archives in Delhi.

"The original plans are still with the CPWD in tin rolls. I believe the British forgot to take them," he laughs. "High brow as the British were," the Munich resident says, it was clear in their minds to turn Delhi into an imperial city but Lord Hardinge, the then viceroy, also wanted some Moghul and Hindu influences in the set-up. "But Lutyens was completely opposed to it. On the viceroy's insistence, he added elephants at the entrance of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, a statute of a snake and then the dome over it so Islamic," he says. Even the original plan of the War Memorial, today's India Gate, also had two small Moghul-style copulas just to impress the viceroy but later removed.

"But interestingly, Lutyens' students, after his death, got installed a caricature bust of him at the Royal Institute of British Architecture with a similar Moghul-style copula as a `topi' to mark his Delhi work." His dislike for Indian styles was such that he once wrote to his wife, "I do hope all goes well and I shall be able to satisfy the king's Moghul taste." Along with it, he had drawn King George V and Queen Mary, the then Emperor and Empress of British India, in Moghul and Hindu attires and commented, "I cannot make the king and the queen dress up like this."

Gathering increased attention recently, the topic of Lutyens' contribution in creating imperial Delhi has been seen in another book form. The author of "The Dome Over Delhi" by Aman Nath construed that more than Lutyens, it was Lord Hardinge who contributed much towards the creation of New Delhi.

Volwahsen's interest in Lutyens' Delhi plan-out took him to his other architectural projects and the author remarks, "Every project had some sort of symmetry which I think was his architectural signature."

Unlike Lutyens, Volwahsen landed up in India 30 years ago "just to shock the scholarship division" of his country. "I was asked which European country would I like to go for my Ph.D. I first thought of China just to surprise the scholarship division.

But China those days were closed to outsiders, so the choice was India," he narrates. Volwahsen completed his Ph.D on Jai Singh II's cosmic architecture, which, he just two years ago turned into a book.

"During those days, just to save a few pennies, I stayed in Old Delhi and soon realised that the Walled city and New Delhi differ a lot in its architecture. The curiosity soon turned into a desire to do extensive research and the outcome is this book after so many decades," he says. The author's next plans a book on the architectural style of old buildings in Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai.

Well, considering his two literary ventures on architectural India, the next rollout would be worth a wait, though with a modest request: can the pricing be slashed a bit so that more and more can learn about the little that is available on such interesting topics?

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And excerpts from another interesting article..

http://www.the-south-asian.com/Sept2002/Rashtrapati%20Bhavan.htm

When the British built it they thought they were going to be in India forever. In the meetings that took place it was decided that though the outside façade would have Indian features the inside would be decidedly British. The building was to be out of bounds for Indians. Alas, that was not to be. The British had to leave India 17 years after it was built.

However, the British rulers of India could not foresee their exit which is why they took so much pain in building this grand structure. It was meant to be like Capitol Hill in Washington. Since it was the supposed to be the residence of the imperial ruler it was consciously built at a height.

The British wanted the Union Jack to fly over and above everything. Architectural drawings showed it as taller than other highrise buildings of the era like Jama Masjid and the Red Fort. It took eight years to build Rashtrapati Bhavan. World famous architect Edwin Lutyens was given the contract to design the building. The work for its construction commenced in 1913 and its first occupant, Viceroy Lord Irwin moved in on January 23, 1931.

The Statistics

The Rashtrapati Bhavan covers an area of 18,580 sq meters (200,000 square feet). The total cost involved in the construction was Rs. 1.4 million. Over 3,500 men worked on 3.5 million cubic feet of marble. And 1,700 million bricks went into its construction.

Edwin Lutyens disliked anything Indian. He had nothing but contempt for Indian architecture. The Rashtrapati Bhavan would have looked like any British building had the then Viceroy Lord Harding not given strict instructions to Lutyens to assimilate the designs from Indian architecture. Lord Harding had a very clear idea about the location. He wanted the Rashtrapati Bhavan (then Viceroy House) to be on the Raisina Hills with one axis towards the Purana Quila as it was a blend of Hindu and Muslim cultures and the other axis towards Red Fort as it was a Mughal building.

Lutyens worked with another architect, Herbert Baker. Their styles came to be known as Indo-Saracenic architecture. The two relied heavily on existing buildings and styles. Though Lutyens did not admit it, he borrowed heavily from Indian architecture. The dome was a virtual replica of the Sanchi Stupa---the final resting place of the Buddha. The Mughal jalis and motifs were copied from the Diwan-i-Khas in Delhi's Red Fort.

The sprawling Moghul Garden inside the Rashtrapati Bhavan was inspired by the Shalimar Gardens in Srinagar and the green spreads around the Taj Mahal. But despite such eclectic borrowings, the final result is both captivating and stunning.

The Parliament Library (considered by many to be an architectural materpiece)

http://www.lntenc.com/ezine/images/maynews.jpg

Traffic Chaos in Central Delhi ('http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51840894&cdi=0', '', 'width=640,height=500,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no')

Buses running amok in Central Delhi ('http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51840898&cdi=0', '', 'width=640,height=500,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no')


Done as you said Suncity.

Just post the hyperlinks for Getty Images.

Don't use IMG tags as it doesn't work

Connaught Place during good old 'Ambassador Car days also less crowded:

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/world/4928/4928_93.jpg


http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/world/4928/4928_96.jpg

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/world/4928/4928_97.jpg

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/world/4928/4928_98.jpg

Delhi view:

http://www.drkimsworld.com/travelsketch/IMAGES/hindu-020-new-delhi-park.jpg

Sachivalaya (secretariat)

http://img74.exs.cx/img74/8597/rb19oh.jpg


http://img74.exs.cx/img74/1226/rb27pb.jpg

Wha kya road hai.

http://noultsinger.zero-yen.com/india-srilanka/indiacar/000130.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/255000/images/_255538_road.jpg

^^^^^

Why can't they just paint the *lanes* ?! Pisses me off when they take all the trouble of building a very nice road only to leave it as bare as a baby's bottom. Look at the DK interchange - it looks superbly demarcated. Its not the drivers' fault alone for causing traffic jams if proper lane based traffic management is not thought off. If they do have proper lanes, and lane-based signage, of course the authorities get no blame.

^^^^^

Why can't they just paint the *lanes* ?! Pisses me off when they take all the trouble of building a very nice road only to leave it as bare as a baby's bottom. Look at the DK interchange - it looks superbly demarcated. Its not the drivers' fault alone for causing traffic jams if proper lane based traffic management is not thought off. If they do have proper lanes, and lane-based signage, of course the authorities get no blame.

The lanes are probably 'officially painted'. The money just got divided between the babus and the contractors.

;-)

The money just got divided between the babus and the contractors.

;-)

who are babus or nehtas ? whats the difference ? do they refer to corrupt officers or incompitent ones ?

Babu is just another name

http://www.rodsphotos.blogspot.com/hoteldaze/delhi.jpg
http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/~petersen/India/photos/panoramics/India_Delhi5.jpg
http://www.gmsquare.com/India/images/Delhi-streets1.jpg
http://www2.gol.com/users/harasho/red-fort.jpg

http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yamakami/connaught-d-view.jpg

http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yamakami/connaught-d-view.jpg

Actually, Gopaljee Das Bhavan looks a decent "International Style" sort of building. This one definitely has some character. :)

http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/~petersen/India/photos/panoramics/India_Delhi5.jpg

That's a depressing picture, isn't it?

Such history left to ruin...

^^^

If I am not mistaken - that's the Purana Quila.

It's supposedly the site of Indraprastha.

This fort was started by Humayun and completed by Sher Shah Suri when he defeated Humayun and captured Delhi. Humayun later re-captured Delhi. He died here in this fort in an accidental fall from stairs in his library.

With political power shifting to Agra region, the fort lost its importance and decayed away I guess.

Post independence, it is actually not too badly maintained.

A road in Delhi.

http://www.experienceiseverything.org/travellogue/asia/india/delhi2003/images/IMG_5880.jpg

^ That is Inner Ring Road next to Kashmere Gate, and ISBT. We need more pics of that ISBT interchange, it's pretty massive! That is an old pic, because that strech now has proper and nice reflective lane markings, and the surface has been freshly redone too. :)

The delhi traffic situation will be much better once the outer-state transport vehicles do not have to enter the city to go across and can just use the outer ring roads and other border highways.

India must also clamp down on old beaten trucks and buses. They are a traffic and pollution hazard or will become one soon.

Things should look up once Delhi has a effective public transport system in place.

Two words needed for the entire nation: Lane decipline.

I'm in India now, New Delhi to be exact. Will be going to Kerala later this week. I will also be going to Mumbai, particularly Navi Mumbai/Nerul/CBD Belapur/Turbhe/Thane and also the Mumbai-Pune expressway to Lonavla. I also have some great MP expressway pics a relative of mine took, albeit with film, so I need to scan them.

I took both the Dhaula Kuan and AIIMS interchanges on the way home frmo the airport, as well of a clutch of other flyovers. Both DK and AIIMS are great. Parts of DK seem bumpy though. Traffic through DK seems a bit tentative right now, probably due to a combination of people just figuring out how to get to their exit in time, and pedestrians in some parts of the main trunk section. Overall, its excellent. But it was nighttime, and I'll go there some other time to take pics. AIIMS looks even better now, with gantries indicating the lanes to be in for specific exits. Earlier there were just arrow signs with destination names near exits, which is bad.

The road from IGI Airport to New Delhi is a godawful mess, but many bottlenecks are because of the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway work. I saw some pillars just off the road in a bunch of places, which I assume are going to be interchanges. Looks like it will come out well, though I shudder to think how the road will be while construction is on.

great news, also make pictures of buildings okay !!! and visit the delhi metro!

Have a great time Suraj.

Delhi's (in)famous Paharganj area popularized by hearsay and guidebooks (like Lonely planet). This is where most backpackers (on a budget ranging from $2.00 to $10.00 per day) stay. New Delhi's many luxury hotels are out of reach for most backpackers. So for most "tourists" out to "experience" India - the few sq kms of Paharganj and Old Delhi is Delhi. All of Old Delhi's monuments are located nearby.

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/9364/paharganj12pt.jpg

View of Delhi from Hans Plaza hotel. (pics by E Yeung)

The underground stretch of Delhi Metro (u/c) goes below this road.

Thankfully the new buildings don't look like these.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3050/delhiaerial2s6nm.jpg

Another view showing the green expanses of Delhi

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/7693/delhiaerial4s9wo.jpg

yet another view

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/2926/delhiaerial3s1mm.jpg

and another one

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/5213/delhiaerial5s4dt.jpg

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Other views:

A mini pic (can see Metro u/c)

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/1691/delhinew23yl.jpg

and another

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/2963/coverimage17ck.jpg

A dusk pic showing the government buildings

http://img142.exs.cx/img142/7895/newdelhiaerial10s1xq.jpg

Nice pics from the hotel, Suncity!

I can see my alma mater in the 3rd and 4th pics. Thats Modern School at Barakhamba Road. The 4th pic shows the entire school campus, with the 3 red brick buildings being the 3 classroom blocks, the auditorium (silver dome) and the cricket (background) and football field (foreground).

Am actually surprised to see a building U/C in the first pic from the hotel. I thought that there were strict restrictions on new high-rises and construction in this area around CP...if not, then why is this area seeing comparatively less real estate activity, inspite of its excellent location and connectivity?

Am actually surprised to see a building U/C in the first pic from the hotel. I thought that there were strict restrictions on new high-rises and construction in this area around CP...if not, then why is this area seeing comparatively less real estate activity, inspite of its excellent location and connectivity?

Dunno what the deal is here. The planners can probably answer best.

BTW can you identify any of the highrise buildings in those pics? I have guessed a few. Not sure of all of them though.

Pic 1:

Guesses - from R - L - DCM, Kanchanjungha, Ashoka, Akashdeep, Nirmal, Gopal Das.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3050/delhiaerial2s6nm.jpg

Pic 2:

British High Commission, Surya Kiran, Red one is Naurang, Himalaya, ECE House. Tall one (seen in right) is of course the HT.

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/2963/coverimage17ck.jpg

Pic 3:

Indraprakash (green glass)??, Narain Manzil (white Building), Birla, New Delhi House(?), Statesman House

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/1691/delhinew23yl.jpg

Dunno what the deal is here. The planners can probably answer best.

BTW can you identify any of the highrise buildings in those pics? I have guessed a few. Not sure of all of them though.

Pic 1:

Guesses - from R - L - DCM, Kanchanjungha, Ashoka, Akashdeep, Nirmal, Gopal Das.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/3050/delhiaerial2s6nm.jpg

Pic 2:

British High Commission, Surya Kiran, Red one is Naurang, Himalaya, ECE House. Tall one (seen in right) is of course the HT.

http://img47.exs.cx/img47/2963/coverimage17ck.jpg

Pic 3:

Indraprakash (green glass)??, Narain Manzil (white Building), Birla, New Delhi House(?), Statesman House

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/1691/delhinew23yl.jpg

I can try, but you already know the names of more buildings in this area than I do :)
In Pic 3, you are right about the one on the extreme left of the pic being Indraprakash (green glass and only a small bit seen in the pic). Am not sure about the one between the stateman house and birla (the one u have guessed as being new delhi house). In pic 1 (the barakhamba road buildings), as far as i remember, you are right about the buildings there. The one I am not able to recall is the red and white one in the right hand side background. There are 3 tall buildings there - Intercontinental Hotel, World Trade Center, and that one.

Dude, sorry couldn't be of much help there...

I can try, but you already know the names of more buildings in this area than I do :)
In Pic 3, you are right about the one on the extreme left of the pic being Indraprakash (green glass and only a small bit seen in the pic). Am not sure about the one between the stateman house and birla (the one u have guessed as being new delhi house). In pic 1 (the barakhamba road buildings), as far as i remember, you are right about the buildings there. The one I am not able to recall is the red and white one in the right hand side background. There are 3 tall buildings there - Intercontinental Hotel, World Trade Center, and that one.

Dude, sorry couldn't be of much help there...

Thanks! The confirmation of Indraprakash helps.

The red white building houses the Food Corporation of India (16-20, BARAKHAMBA LANE)..Dunno if it has an official name


:-)


http://fciweb.nic.in/fci_main1.jpg


http://img154.exs.cx/img154/8620/delhiintercontinental2kt.jpg

Thanks! The confirmation of Indraprakash helps.

The red white building houses the Food Corporation of India (16-20, BARAKHAMBA LANE)..Dunno if it has an official name


:-)


http://fciweb.nic.in/fci_main1.jpg


http://img154.exs.cx/img154/8620/delhiintercontinental2kt.jpg

yea, thats the thing, I also just know it as FCI coz its got FCI written on one of its side vertically in black letters. I also dont know though if that is its official name.

yea, thats the thing, I also just know it as FCI coz its got FCI written on one of its side vertically in black letters. I also dont know though if that is its official name.

Well that is double confirmation!

Hey do you know about any highrise buildings (12 storey+) in Nehru Place, Rajendra Place and Janakpuri.

I think Delhi has over a 100 highrise buildings.

Well that is double confirmation!

Hey do you know about any highrise buildings (12 storey+) in Nehru Place, Rajendra Place and Janakpuri.

I think Delhi has over a 100 highrise buildings.

not sure about janakpuri, but the Nehru Place ones I know are:

1. IFCI Tower: 20 odd storeys
2. International Trade Tower: Its a complex of 3 towers, and the tallest one is definitely at least 20 storeys
3. Intercontinental Park Royal Hotel: I think its about 15 storeys.
4. There is a district center too in NP, but dont know if its 12 storeys...might be around 10

Rajendra Place, there's Videocon Towers thats definitely 12+, then there is a hotel there, I think its Hotel Siddharta (not sure though) its a red brick building...that might be 12+. There are a couple of towers around that, but I dont think any of them are 12 storeys.

Janakpuri, have absolutely no idea. 2 areas that might get some new commercial towers are Vikaspuri and Vasant Kunj. Esp. Vikaspuri, with the metro getting there in June, I think there's quite a lot of real estate activity going on there. Lets keep our fingers crossed, and we might see some tall towers going up there...actually, Dwarka too - though that might be too close to the airport.

Well that is double confirmation!

Hey do you know about any highrise buildings (12 storey+) in Nehru Place, Rajendra Place and Janakpuri.

I think Delhi has over a 100 highrise buildings.

hmm....100 highrises (assuming 12+ is highrise) in Delhi alone....its hard to say, just coz they are all spread out all over the place. NCR is definitely more than 100, but just Delhi might not be 100. Central Delhi (CP and surrounding areas) probably has 40 towers that are 12+, but I dont think there would be another 50-60 towers in Nehru Place, Bhikaji Cama Place, Rajendra Place, Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Dwarka...I think the total number might be close to 75-80.

Thanks..

Let's hope they build some nice towers in the rest of NCR.

:cheers:

I second that, specially because Delhi is one city whose infrastructure (at least the transport infrastructure) can support lots of high density areas with many highrises as compared to the other Indian cities. The Master Plan 2021 does talk of freeing up land in Delhi for skyscrapers, lets see if that actually happens or not...

Well that is double confirmation!

Hey do you know about any highrise buildings (12 storey+) in Nehru Place, Rajendra Place and Janakpuri.

I think Delhi has over a 100 highrise buildings.

Suncity, Delhi has 100's of 10-12+ storyed apartment complexes spread all over the city. Particularly in Mayur Vihar (On Road to Noida), Patpar Ganj societies, Rohini (One of asia's biggest residential sub-city with 10's of sectors), Pitam Pura, Dwarka, Indira Nagar & Kaushambhi (In Ghaziabd but it is more closer to Delhi than G'Bad).

JanakPuri Distt. center used to have 2-3, 12-15 storyed towers 7 yesr back (in its bad days). Now it's blooming again. I guess it might have added few more.

Netaji Subhash Place (another distt. center coming up on ring road, just opposite to Wazirpur depot and near Pitampura TV tower) used to have 4-5 tall buildings few yrs back. One of them was PP Tower (owned by famous PP Jewelers) and another Ebony.

There are many 10+ commercial/educational building spread out here and there within the Delhi expanse and these are not at all counted in Emporis website. Just to mention a few JNU Libray building (11+), India Oil building (Yusuf Sarai), Delhi Police HQ (ITO) etc. etc.

Qutab institutional area (south of IIT) near JNU, IIT, NCERT has many 10+ institution buildings.

Suncity, Delhi has 100's of 10-12+ storyed apartment complexes spread all over the city. Particularly in Mayur Vihar (On Road to Noida), Patpar Ganj societies, Rohini (One of asia's biggest residential sub-city with 10's of sectors), Pitam Pura, Dwarka, Indira Nagar & Kaushambhi (In Ghaziabd but it is more closer to Delhi than G'Bad).

JanakPuri Distt. center used to have 2-3, 12-15 storyed towers 7 yesr back (in its bad days). Now it's blooming again. I guess it might have added few more.

Netaji Subhash Place (another distt. center coming up on ring road, just opposite to Wazirpur depot and near Pitampura TV tower) used to have 4-5 tall buildings few yrs back. One of them was PP Tower (owned by famous PP Jewelers) and another Ebony.

There are many 10+ commercial/educational building spread out here and there within the Delhi expanse and these are not at all counted in Emporis website. Just to mention a few JNU Libray building (11+), India Oil building (Yusuf Sarai), Delhi Police HQ (ITO) etc. etc.

Qutab institutional area (south of IIT) near JNU, IIT, NCERT has many 10+ institution buildings.

Thanks..

Wish we had someone who could get a complete list.

I don't know why, but the popular cutoff for highrise seems to be arbitary at 12 floors / 35 m. Some people even say it should be 30F/ 90m. Dunno what's the international accepted standard.

Around Connaught Place:

1
http://img146.exs.cx/img146/1266/nedelhiconnaughtplace18fy.jpg

2
http://img149.exs.cx/img149/5047/delhiconnaughtplace25dr.jpg

Hi Everyone, Everyone, I am a new user here. Although I am not from
Delhi, I love the city!!! I am from Baroda, Gujarat. I saw once in outlook magazine about a supertall(s) to be built in Delhi!!!(plz confirm). called the delhi twin towers project. it will be massive man!!(rs 500 crore!!!). any delhi resident may know.

Welcome to the forums, 29A. It is nice to hear that you are from Baroda. I lived in Baroda for many years. It is a nice city. Can you take pics from Old Padra Road, I beleive there are many 12 storied buildings there.

Hi Mainhoona,
Thnak you for that warm welcome. I will try my best to post pics of my city, however, i live in Anand now(40 kms away) for studies. Baroda has really changed, and o p road looks more like some place on gorgaon!!, with some cool glass scrapers. will start Baroda thread soon, as soon as i get a cam!!

Plz somebody find out abt the Delhi twin towers proposed project

http://img39.exs.cx/img39/6939/lottemple014ej.png

Anyone know what that nice looking building on the far right is?

If you are referring to the glass building it is the IFCI towers

http://www.bengalweb.com/skyline/delhi/ifci.jpg

The building on the left is the International Trade Tower

http://www.eros-group.com/images/picitt.jpg

and the pic is probably from the InterContinental Park Royal

http://www.eros-group.com/images/picparkroyal.jpg in Nehru Place.

I am not sure about the buildings under construction. There was supposed to be a parking garage and a Corporate tower in Nehru place.

http://www.eros-group.com/images/piccorporate.jpg

Cool

I thought they had a moritorium on mid/highrise construction in the Delhi city limits

Ericsson
Dlf, Delhi

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/ericson/3new.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/ericson/5.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/ericson/3.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/ericson/2new.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/ericson/1new.jpg


DLF Corporate Park
Gurgaon, Haryana

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/dlfcorporate/dlfcorporate-1.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/dlfcorporate/dlfcorporate-2.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/dlfcorporate/dlfcorporate-3.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/dlfcorporate/dlfcorporate-4.jpg

http://www.hafeezcontractor.com/corporateoffices/dlfcorporate/dlfcorporate-5.jpg

Pics by Brian McMorrow
Jan 19, 2005

http://img69.exs.cx/img69/2697/newdelhinight4qx.jpg

You can see the Rajpath here

http://img69.exs.cx/img69/9386/newdelhinight28hr.jpg

Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting (http://www.imageshack.us)

More and more people should start taking such pics and in larger sizes..

:)

IIT-Delhi campus: Hostel's area

http://wwwlinux.utc.fr/~smirrjea/inde2003/iit_vers_le_sud1.jpg

IIT Delhi campus: JNU brick-brown buildings in the background

http://wwwlinux.utc.fr/~smirrjea/inde2003/iit_vers_le_nord.jpg

An old bonus picture: CP central park. It's no more now. I guess Metro station will occupy this place.
http://www6.wind.ne.jp/mrfujii/eng/images/foreign/india/connaut5.jpg

Some images from India Pictures [small public versions I guess]


Statesman House

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/1520/delhiaerial3of.jpg

Delhi from Vikas Minar [see the distant Connaught plc skyine]

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/5166/delhiaerial39tk.jpg

Delhi at night

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/8476/delhinight19so.jpg

A flyover

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/5849/flyover6mc.jpg

Another flyover

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/1549/delhiflyover20th.jpg

A "golden" Red Fort

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/4176/redfortnight2qs.jpg

South-Ex at night

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/6184/southexnight4ue.jpg

Jama masjid at night

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/8281/jamamasjidnight0en.jpg

Gurudwara Bangla Sahib - evening

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/3998/banglasahibeve8el.jpg

Lotus Temple at night

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/1875/lotusnight0xe.jpg

The Govt complex

http://img176.exs.cx/img176/592/rashtrapatinight5yu.jpg

Skyline

http://img174.exs.cx/img174/5738/delhiskyline1s8kc.jpg

These are amazing pictures suncity

Suncity..........Nice pics.

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Delhi%20View%201.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Delhi%20View%203.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Sanshad%20Bhavan%20-%20Parliament.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Rashtrapati%20Bhavan%201.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Rashtrapati%20Bhavan%206.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Chandni%20Chowk%209.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Chandni%20Chowk%2010.jpg

http://www.theplateau.com/india2002/Moghul%20Highlights/Delhi/Chandni%20Chowk%208.jpg

Great photos guys!

Nice, Delhi's skyline doesen't seem too bad.

Nice, Delhi's skyline doesen't seem too bad.

It's just not that supertall, but quite a few of Delhi projects were designed by famous architects of India. I don't think Delhi is ever going to go tall...maybe Gurgaon, but not Delhi. :)

Ansal and Hindustan Times

http://img163.exs.cx/img163/5236/ansal15sm.jpg

New Delhi City Centre

http://img192.exs.cx/img192/3256/ndcitycentre14ia.jpg

A street

http://img179.exs.cx/img179/8123/newdelhistreet2lr.jpg

Connaught Place

http://img179.exs.cx/img179/5750/connaught0dk.jpg

Indoor Stadium

http://img179.exs.cx/img179/1077/stadiumdelhi4mm.jpg

A street

http://img179.exs.cx/img179/8123/newdelhistreet2lr.jpg



^^^

Awesome pic! Looks like a street in any developed country!!

N and S blocks lit up for this Republic Day

http://img79.exs.cx/img79/801/l20050128029um.jpg

^^^

Awesome pic! Looks like a street in any developed country!!

Hard to believe! BTW, where in India is this? New Delhi? :)

Wouldn't it be just great if this was a pretty site over much of India?

^^^

Awesome pic! Looks like a street in any developed country!!

In an ideal world, I would like all on India's streets, based on this design.

9.5 out of 10.

I am pretty familiar with all parts of Delhi, though it has been a couple of years since I went there. I cannot imagine where in Delhi that street is. In fact, I am reasonably convinced that it is not a street in Delhi at all.

I am pretty familiar with all parts of Delhi, though it has been a couple of years since I went there. I cannot imagine where in Delhi that street is. In fact, I am reasonably convinced that it is not a street in Delhi at all.

I have lived most of my life in delhi and i'm quite surprised by above statement. Delhi has many such street which are well maintained, with proper road furniture and markings. Though i can't name this street as it does not show any building but it could be one in Diplomatic Enclave or in Lutyens Bunglow zone. If it can't be in Delhi then it is hard to imagine that it can be in any other city.

Please don't twist what I have said. I have not said anything about whether there are streets 'like' this in Delhi. All I am saying is that I can't see which street in Delhi this is. Given that I am familiar with Delhi, I doubt that it is in Delhi unless somebody points out which one it is.

Heh Heh. That picture caught my attention and that's why I posted it.

Somehow it seems to be a complete mismatch for our ingrained experience of Indian cities.

The drain outlets, the double yellow lines on the corner, the perfect greens mowed at the right height, not a speck of dust in the edges!

But this is a picture library. Let's give them the benefit of doubt and they can make things look nicer than they are. Since all the other pics from them are recognizable as Delhi, maybe this one too is Delhi. The Chanakyapuri Area and the Bunglow Zone do have some fine streets. And the area around Indira Sthal also has some great roads.

However the following pics look more like Delhi that I know also exists

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/9655/ambydelhi14cd.jpg

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/6402/streetnewdelhi0ha.jpg

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/2834/streetnewdelhi24ov.jpg

Given that I am familiar with Delhi, I doubt that it is in Delhi unless somebody points out which one it is.

The picture library www.indiapicture.com doesn't specify the street name. If you search with Delhi Street the pic comes up in page 7. Any Delhiwallhas recognize this street?

Flyover in front of DPS

http://img152.exs.cx/img152/7154/delhiflyover17kt.jpg

the last picture is nice(looks like the picture is taken in fall),i like the botanics which looks pretty euro:)


nice finds Suncity,sure makes one pretty puzzled about where in Delhi it is:)

the last picture is nice(looks like the picture is taken in fall),i like the botanics which looks pretty euro:)


nice finds Suncity,sure makes one pretty puzzled about where in Delhi it is:)



The flyover pic is the Zakir Hussain Marg Flyover. The road below is Mathura Road. The pic is probably taken from the Oberoi hotel. The domed building to right is probably the Humayun's tomb.

If I am not mistaken, this is the Zakir Hussain Marg Flyover. The road below is Mathura Road. The pic is probably taken from the Oberoi hotel.

The domed building to right is probably the Humayun's tomb.

nono i mean this one:)

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/2834/streetnewdelhi24ov.jpg

nono i mean this one:)

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/2834/streetnewdelhi24ov.jpg

Those streets could be anywhere in the Bunglow Zone/ Chanakyapuri area. Amaltas (Indian Laburnum) trees are so common in most Indian cities especially Delhi.

Wish the pic was nicer..

http://img84.exs.cx/img84/9084/delhi10oq.jpg

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t790/T790957A.jpg

^^^

That picture looks interesting!

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t790/T790957A.jpg

Pretty nice picture with delhi's skyline in the background. though the foreground is a bit of an eyesore.

Delhi: Cube House

http://www.architectureweek.com/2004/0811/images_/12474_image_3.jpg

http://www.architectureweek.com/2004/0811/images_/12474_image_3.jpg

By Timir Mozumdar

http://www.knowindia.net/pics/airport12.jpg

http://www.knowindia.net/pics/airport13.jpg

By Timir Mozumdar

http://www.knowindia.net/pics/airport12.jpg

http://www.knowindia.net/pics/airport13.jpg

That looks like Dwarka. The area is witnessing a real estate boom with the metro starting operations there by September 05.

Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan
http://img236.exs.cx/img236/8491/266215103mdenhsph18fg.jpg

http://worldnet.kbs.co.kr/bbs/system/db/w_india_column_1/upload/5/Picture_001.jpg

http://www.mjlgreene.com/delhi1.jpg


http://195.230.55.9/pix/e8a8f3a11038a5e1/UL_833732_10764510151_l.jpg

Nice pics aks. Delhi's skyline is not as bad as people make it out to be.

That looks like Dwarka. The area is witnessing a real estate boom with the metro starting operations there by September 05.

yes it is Dwarka...

Here is a Dwarka pano by Arvind Krishnan

http://img132.exs.cx/img132/3120/dwarkasubcity2xu.jpg

And a Dwarka pic

http://img230.exs.cx/img230/2507/dwarkasubcity13xn.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/santosh_t_reddy/Pic059.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/santosh_t_reddy/Pic053.jpg

^ Nice hi-res pics! Do post them in the Ba'hai temple thread in the Architecture forum. :)

http://www.traveldelhi.com/assets/images/dlcpmb04.jpg

http://www.traveldelhi.com/assets/images/rb14.jpg

http://www.aftersleep.com/album/asia/india/30_sleep_eat_and_move/food/050109184422_view_from_parikrama.jpg

AKS, good job!!!

Nehru Place

http://img230.exs.cx/img230/2623/nehruplace10cy.jpg

Nice pics aks. Delhi's skyline looks sorta boring. Is it destined to stay like this forever.

^ True.

Delhi will forever remain a low-rise city.

Windsor Place
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/8554/windorplacend2kz.jpg

New Delhi Skyline...wish we had a high resolution picture on a clear sunny day

:)

But this will have to do for now

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/7872/newdelhiskylineview14sg.jpg

New Delhi Skyline...wish we had a high resolution picture on a clear sunny day

:)

But this will have to do for now

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/7872/newdelhiskylineview14sg.jpg

If, i can guess this probably is taken from the ridge (Budha Jajayanti Park) which is relatively on higher ground and on eastern fringe of aravali hills. I always felt while travelling on ridge road that it gives a nice and distant view of delhi skyline from there.

Sun! you have done my day!..that was an awesome pic of ND-skyline!:)

Hey that's a good pic. Delhi's skyline is not as bad as it seems. Although it is not that great either.

What is the height of the highest building in new delhi?

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_140.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_154.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_210.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_209.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_211.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_212.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_225.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_070-1.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_085-1.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_002-3.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_014-5.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_021-5.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_015-6.jpg

http://www2.drury.edu/kotto/india/images/picture_016-6.jpg

great finds aks!

Nice pictures aks.

Nice pics AKS!

:) Delhi looks better than I thought, I really dont care if it gets taller or not but I just wish the quality of the builds were better. (Cleaner + More glass )

Delhi really must enact some sort of maintinance ordinance. Granted the monsoon, blah blah... but a fresh coat of paint would really make a difference.

Yea that would help, a lot of the buildings look worn out.

JL Nehru Stadium (Pic by Nidheesh)

http://img211.exs.cx/img211/5912/jlnehrustadnidheesh3pt.jpg

^^^ Is that the building where they are going to host the commonwalth games.

^^^ Is that the building where they are going to host the commonwalth games.

Probably.

^^^actually no, thats not where the commonwealth games will be hosted. A brand new sports complex and village is coming up near the Yamuna for the CG 2010. The complex will have a couple of stadiums and a games village, and from what I last heard, a new cricket ground will be part of the complex too. Last I heard, the enviro-freaks were raising some objections coz the construction of the complex requires the reclamation of some yamuna land.

What is the height of the highest building in new delhi?

Tallest Building: Hansalaya 88m/289ft with 21 floors (source:Emporis)

Tallest structure: Pitampura TV Tower 235m/771ft (source:Emporis)

In other words: not bad but the capital's tallest should be around the same hright as the current TV tower (and have something like 55 floors), while the tallest stucture should be a 650m+/2,112'6"+ structure, be it a TV tower or anything else.

On a related note: Here you can find a few details on "Purani Dilli's" 30-floor Retail/Office tower. (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=131148) However, they do not give a height (my guess: 3m per floor gives 90m, 60m short of a decent height).

Is Delhi really gonna get rid of auto rickshaws and replace them with th cars from one of the Indian car companies?