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.