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Delhi president house and the President House is a masterpiece of the British Empire in India. Now people of India call it the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Rashtrapati Bhavan is also the best-known architecture of India. During the British Empire this monument was called the Viceroy Palace. This magnificent architecture was a discovery of two Britishers Lutyens and Baker in which they showed their brilliance of designing. The prime attractions of the President House are its entrance, interior decorations and the Mughal Garden. The main floor of the house has series of apartments, while the marble staircase takes to the private rooms in the house. The Mughal Garden was designed after considering the internal symmetry of house in the west part of the palace in Delhi president house
Lord Irwin was the first occupant of this building and Lord Mountbatten became the last British to occupy the building. Bigger than any palace of Indian Royalty and one of the biggest palaces of the world, the palace was made entirely out of the indigenous building materials. Named Viceroy House, and later christened Rashtrapati Bhawan, it has a large courtyard to its front and a Mughal style garden at its back. The garden is popularly known as the 'Mughal Gardens'. This garden behind Rashtrapati Bhawan is based on the model of Bagh-e-Bahu in Kashmir and is spread over an area of 130 hectares in Delhi president house.
At the centre of the main part of the palace is Durbar Hall. This is the main structure in this part of the palace. Earlier it was called throne room.president house delhi and the interior of this room and almost all the rooms of the palace are bare. The architecture is influenced with objectivism where the architect rely on the stonework and shapes to show austerity. Similarly, you will notice that the columns are made in the original 'Delhi' order which combines vertical lines with the motif of a bell.
president house delhi and Built in a neo-classical, Victorian-gothic style, Rashtrapati Bhawan has 340 large rooms, 37 salons, 74 lobbies and loggias, 18 staircases and 37 fountains. To some extent, the style can be said to be Classical or Greek. This claim is supported by the presence of large pillars and domes. There are very few arches and even if they are, they have round arch and not pointed as in case of pure Victorian Architecture.
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