Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was built as the Viceroy's House, designed mainly by Edwin Lutyens, with Herbert Baker working on the adjacent Secretariat. Construction ran from 1912 to 1929, and it was inaugurated in 1931. The infobox lists the Delhi Order, a column order Lutyens devised, and the text describes a classical design with Indo-Saracenic details.
The building has four floors, 340 rooms and about 200,000 square meters (2.2 million square feet) of floor area, with a copper-faced central dome modeled partly on the Pantheon. It used about 700 million bricks and red and cream Dholpur sandstone. Lutyens cut the design volume from 13 million to 8.5 million cubic feet.
A road gradient of 1 in 22 reduced the view of the front. Gardens laid out in Mughal style open to the public in February and March, and were renamed Amrit Udyan in 2023. It is the official residence of the President of India.
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