The long-standing friendship between Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker turned sour during the course of the building of the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the North and South Blocks, which affected the way the ‘power corridor’ ultimately shaped up.
The buildings along India’s ‘power corridor’ – Raisina Hill – are among the finest specimens of colonial architecture in the subcontinent as well as one of the most visible legacies of British rule in the region.
Reversing an earlier decision to build the colonial capital in the area north of the 17th-century Mughal city of Shahjahanabad, they chose a rocky outcrop called Raisina Hill as the new site. Lutyens and Baker found sufficient common ground to create a harmonious set of buildings on the Raisina Hill.
The Raisina Hill buildings continue to attract thousands of visitors from across the world for the sense of grandeur they project. To those in the know, Lutyens’s ‘Bakerloo’ is not only a reminder of a friendship that soured during the designing of India’s power corridor but also a reflection on how grand designs of empire play out.
Source: thewire
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