13/09/2025
It gives us pleasure to announce that Oracles has been declared the winner at ETRealty Designscape Awards 2025 for its recently completed 'Terminal 1 - Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, developed by GMR - Delhi International Airport Limited. The citation reads: Landscape Design of the Year (Metro).
This award goes to each and every illustrious yet humble colleague at Oracles: Landscape Architecture, Planning & Design. Apart from design excellence under the leadership of its founding Principal Suneet Mohindru, the recognition speaks volumes about technical prowess, diplomacy, coordination and hard work that the team at Oracles exhibited in delivering a significant project for the city.
We are grateful to GMR Group and L&T Construction who entrusted us with this responsibility and are indebted to the unsung worksmen who crafted every element of the ensemble. We are thankful to ET Realty Designscape Awards team and the Jury for this recognition.
And now the story of design...
It all began with a quest - What should the landscape design for Delhi's domestic airport symbolically base itself on.
The answer lay in the common denominator that defined Delhi through its cultural history - it's unique geographical setting - A well defined land closed in by the river and the ridge on two sides.
In addition, the design language must offer dynamism and flamboyance, while evoking the myriad emotions associated with travel. It must offer a window to luxury and lifestyle, while weaving nature into the terminal in a stylized form.
The architectural vocabulary and geometry of landscape organisation was developed by a careful study of sinuous contours of the Aravalis and the Yamuna flood plains. Everything followed from thereon! The design manifested into metaphors that stood for the woods, the meandering river, mountain lakes, boulders, undulating meadows and the quintessential chabutra under a tree.
