Work by Pankaj Vir Gupta featured in The Plan

Alok Office Reception
Alok Office Building. Photo courtesy of vir.mueller architects

May 20, 2026
BY Rawad nahhas

Two projects by vir.mueller architects — led by Pankaj Vir Gupta, Katz Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, and his partner Christine Mueller — have been featured in consecutive issues of The Plan, one of Europe's leading architectural publications.

The April 2026 issue spotlights the Alok Office Building, a 3,256-square-meter headquarters completed in 2024 for Alok Masterbatches in New Delhi, India. The exposed brick and concrete structure creates a light-filled volume, with offices and laboratories oriented toward views of an adjacent park — a design that brings together the precision of a research and development environment with a considered openness to the surrounding landscape.

Atrium first looking west
Atrium overlooked by the buildings' multiple levels. Photo courtesy of vir.mueller architects

The May 2026 issue (The Plan 170, available in print and online) features the Humayun's Tomb Museum, also in New Delhi. Located adjacent to the 16th-century Mughal monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site, the project engages one of the subcontinent's most historically and culturally significant landscapes.

HUMAYUN’S TOMB SITE MUSEUM
Humayun's Tomb Site Museum. Photo courtesy of vir.mueller architects

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