Hall of Fame

C N Raghavendran

Architect, C N Raghavendran rao and associates

Born in 1944 to Civil Engineer C R Narayana Rao, C N Raghavendran completed his primary and secondary education in Chennai. Apart from studies, Raghavendran’s childhood was spent playing hockey, football and cricket with his friends and family. After successfully completing his pre-university course from Vivekananda College, Chennai, Raghavendran went to study Architecture at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Following his graduation, he worked with his father for almost a year, before attending University of California, Berkeley, for postgraduate studies in Architecture. He joined his father’s firm C R Narayana Rao & Associates upon returning to India with M. Arch. from Berkeley, USA.

Over the last 6 decades, their firm has gained immense recognition and expanded their business to cover all the 4 states in Southern India. As early as 1960s, the firm gained recognition for their innovative architecture for the prestigious Dunlop and Ashok Leyland factories. Besides industrial projects, the firm has also designed many educational institutions, textile mills and sports stadiums. Their loyal clients include some of India’s large scale global companies like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Satyam, HCL, Oracle and Computer Associates among others. A landmark achievement for this firm has been the construction of Tidel Park, a 1.5 million sft building equipped with energy saving measures. A one-of-its-kind energy efficient building, it was inaugurated and praised by the then Prime Minister of India.

With a 250-strong team of dedicated employees, the two brothers, C N Raghavendran and Dr C N Srinivasan are giving face to many dreams.