Virasat-e-Khalsa

One side it promotes hand crafts to locals as well as nurturing a sense of heritage, besides it recalls to infinity by the volumetric interference of existing skyline is another phase of a visible Urbanism dilemma.

[1] The buildings are constructed of poured-in-place concrete; some beams and columns remain exposed, though a great deal of the structures will be clad in a local honey-colored stone.

[2] The smaller western complex includes an entrance plaza, an auditorium with 400 seating-capacity, two-story research and reference library, and changing exhibition galleries.

Parkash Singh Badal was very inspired by the Holocaust Memorial- Yad Vashem in Israel and asked the architect, Moshe Safdie to construct a memorial as an ode to the Khalsa.

[5] The central building in the shape of a leaf represents the Kikkar symbol prevalent in most Sikh coins up until British rule.

Virasat-e-Khalsa
Virasat-e-Khalsa