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Rashtrapati Bhavan

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Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India on Raisina Hill in New Delhi, was designed by the British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, with construction beginning in 1912 and finishing in 1929. Built originally as Viceroy's House to serve as the residence of Britain's colonial viceroys, it briefly became Government House after Indian independence in 1947 before taking its present role as the president's residence in 1950. Lutyens and Baker developed what came to be called the Delhi Order, a style drawing on Indo-Saracenic principles that combines Western classical massing with Indian decorative elements, most visibly in the building's great dome. Spanning about 200,000 square metres across four floors with 340 rooms and some 2.5 kilometres of interior corridors, built using roughly 700 million bricks and 3 million cubic feet of stone, it stands as the largest official residence of any head of state in the world.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Presidential Residence 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
New Delhi, India 1
Completed Year
1929 2
Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account
55 1
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Residential 1
Connections

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Dwelling, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Indo-Saracenic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Brick, Architectural Materials
Source Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
Marble, Architectural Materials
Source Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
Sandstone, Architectural Materials
Source Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
Stone, Architectural Materials
Source Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: India, located there.
Sources
1. Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • infobox, building type
    Official residence of the President of India
  • infobox, completion
    Completed 1929
  • infobox, height
    Height 55 m (180 ft)
  • infobox, location
    Rajpath, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, India
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    The Rashtrapati Bhavan (, ISO: Rāṣṭrapati Bhavana; lit. 'President's House'), formerly Viceroy's House (1931-1947) and Government House (1947-1950) is the official residence of the President of India, located at the western end of Rajpath, Raisina Hill in New Delhi. The building was designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker in Delhi Order based on Indo-Saracenic architecture. The construction began in 1912 and the building was completed in 1929. The building, initially known as Viceroy's House, housed the Viceroy of India from 1931 until India's independence. After Independence, it briefly s
  • In Style: Indo-Saracenic Architecture, Introduction
    The building was designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker in Delhi Order based on Indo-Saracenic architecture.
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
    == Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
  • Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia article
    == Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
  • Uses Element: Sandstone, Wikipedia article
    == Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
  • Uses Element: Marble, Wikipedia article
    == Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
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2. Wikidata: Rashtrapati Bhavan
  • Wikidata Q677555, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q677555, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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