India, March 16 -- When did an international style like Art Deco become part of Delhi's everyday visual landscape? Delhi began seeing buildings in the Art Deco style in the early 1940s, when Sir Sobha Singh developed Sujan Singh Park, designed by architect Walter Sykes George, to house officers during the Second World War. These apartments fused Lutyens-style archway entrances with curving Deco balconies and signature "eyebrows." In contrast to the open verandahs typical of the Capital's earlier homes, the upper floors featured longer enclosed windows. George appears to have drawn from European housing schemes while adapting them to local materials such as exposed brick. Completed in 1945, the apartments were partly leased out under a gover...