Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations New York

The site is just down the road from the UN Headquarters in New York. It consists of two city-plots connecting adjacent streets, forming a narrow strip of land 60m long, with a frontage of 12m along East 43rd Street and a mere 6.3m along East 44th Street. Into this crevice had to be inlaid a complex programme of offices for the Permanent Mission of India and an exhibition gallery (with direct access from East 44th St.), located in the four levels of the podium. This is surmounted by a tower with residential accommodation for five different categories of staff, ranging from the security personnel to the Dy. Consul General (in a triplex apartment with terrace gardens, at the top of the building). This wide range of apartment sizes were all accommodated in the same envelope, wrapped in a taut metal-panelled skin. The larger apartments at the top are interlocking duplexes - somewhat like the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai (1969-83), but with the double-height areas glass-enclosed.