Jeevan Bharati Bhawan

Though we’d be the first to acknowledge that the towering Jeevan Bharati Bhawan in Connaught Place is a splendid creation in glass, stone and metal; it did seem a tad out of place next to the low-lying Connaught Place. When the building came up in the 1980s, architect Charles Correa was criticized for making it too futurist. Over the years of course, other skyscrapers loomed large over Connaught Place’s horizon and the controversy died a natural death. Today there are many high rise structures in CP: the DLF Centre and New Delhi Municipal Corporation’s Palika Bhawan, on Sansad Marg, and the Le Meridian Hotel and State Trading Corporation on Janpath to name a few.