Large urban residences are registries as well as articulations of filial, financial and aspirational value. Catering as much to their inhabitants? needs as to their whims, they are, simultaneously, spaces of private indulgence as also objects of a more socially motivated aesthetic expression.

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Architects: Anagram Architects

Location: Anand Niketan, New Delhi, Delhi 110021, India

Design Team: Vaibhav Dimri, Madhav Raman, Ayush Prakash

Area: 1356.0 m2

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: André J Fanthome

Client: Satish Garg

Civil Contractors: Adhunik Infrastructure

Structural Engineers: Bmsf Design Consultants

Other Consultants: Electrical Squaretech Engineers
Plumbing: Dsr Engineering Services

Site Supervision: Anagram Architects

Model Maker: Inhouse

© André J Fanthome

From the architect. Large urban residences are registries as well as articulations of filial, financial and aspirational value. Catering as much to their inhabitants? needs as to their whims, they are, simultaneously, spaces of private indulgence as also objects of a more socially motivated aesthetic expression.

© André J Fanthome

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