page_title: Habib Rahman (architect)
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Habib Rahman (architect) / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: Rabindra Bhawan, Delhi houses a host of apex government of India bodies for arts and culture, including, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the Lalit Kala Akademi,
context_page_description: Habib Rahman was an Indian architect who worked on the Delhi Zoological Park, Gandhi Ghat and Rabindra Bhavan.
context_section_description: During the 1950s and 1960s, the Nehru government invited architects, among which Habib Rahman, to develop new public buildings built in the spirit of the independence of India. He designed the Gandhi Ghat in 1949 in Barrackpore, the New Secretariat in Kolkata (completed in 1954), the Dak Bhawan in 1954, the Rabindra Bhavan in 1961 (or 1963), the World Health Organisation in Dehli in 1962 (demolished in July 2019), the Sardar Patel Bhawan in 1973 (opposite to the Dak Bhawan). He also designed the National Zoological Park that opened in 1959 (which included historical ruins, and housed over a thousand animal species).
  He also built the memorials of Abul Kalam Azad, Zakir Husain and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
  Habib Rahman's architecture mirrored the modernist ethos of the newly Independent India.
caption: Rabindra Bhawan (1961), Delhi.
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