The Five Best

"If you look at the way you move through the spaces, you enter the lobby in a certain way, from everywhere you keep getting views of the Lodi Gardens foliage," said K.T. Ravindran. "That is still one of the most beautiful buildings in Delhi because it merges indoor and outdoor spaces."

2. India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road (Joseph Allen Stein, 1993)

"Individual buildings are connected together, and it provides a great public space for people to meet and mill around," said Ashok Dhawan. "In many ways, it’s a modern courtyard or a series of internal courtyards created by individual buildings."

3. Life Insurance Corporation, Connaught Place (Charles Correa, 1986)
"The original scheme for the building was about bridging the road from the inner circle to the outer circle and carrying people through the plaza at the base of the building to the Janpath Market side," said Jagan Shah. "That was one of the first instances of a large building allowing people to walk through. That gesture was killed by our security."

4. Parliament Library (Raj Rewal, 2002)

"It’s quite an interesting building because it is very contextual. It has a lot of features of Indian architecture," said A.G. Krishna Menon. "It has many innovations of structure, many layers of such interesting features, which make it a remarkable building."

5. Delhi’s historical monuments (Humayun’s Tomb, Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq’s Tomb, and Khirki Masjid)
"It’s a really old city and a really new city. There are several thousands of years of history and historical architecture all mixed up and strewn around," said Manit Rastogi.