The residential neighborhoods in this area are interspersed with institutional buildings and compounds. Even with this difference, this area follows the same pattern as the area south of it, with the western portion laid out in a planned grid manner, while the eastern portion has a more organic layout.

Click on the following links for brief descriptions of the Daryaganj area, the residential architecture of the Daryaganj area, and desi deco.

 

General location of Daryaganj within Old Delhi

Portion of Daryaganj covered in this post

 

Western Portion

 

Modernist apartment building

Ventilation sun-shades on a colonial-style building

Buildings along Dayanand Marg in the simple colonial neoclassical style found along Netaji Subhash Marg as well

 

Eastern Portion

Once again, the eastern area has a more organic layout, and is more densely built up, with narrow streets.

 

Desi deco motifs on a roof

The same building and roof ornamentation seen from below