HAZRATGANJ · HERITAGE · EVERYDAY DISCOVERY
A visitor’s guide to the place, its printing legacy and the experiences you can explore today.
Le Press is a shopping, dining and cultural destination at the restored Newal Kishore Press campus in Hazratganj, Lucknow. Its heritage buildings, courtyards and gardens bring together fashion, craft, design, food and cultural experiences.
Explore the Le Press experience ↗Le Press is at 29, Naval Kishore Road, Hazratganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226001, India. Use the campus map pin for directions to the entrance.
Address, map and contact details ↗Contact the relevant store or restaurant for current opening hours and reservations. For campus enquiries, call +91 98101 24469 or email info@lepress.in. Confirm arrangements for your planned visit directly with the team.
Find store and restaurant contacts ↗The Le Press directory includes fashion, Chikankari, sarees, jewellery, craft, home and lifestyle design. Browse the current partner directory to choose stores before visiting.
Shopping guide ↗The dining guide brings together the campus cafes and restaurants, including CIBO and Third Wave Coffee. Follow each venue’s official links for menus, reservations and current updates.
Dining and coffee guide ↗It is an online 3D interpretation of the historic printing works, with 28 departments covering letterpress, typesetting, lithography, engraving, binding, offices, book storage and dispatch. It also includes machinery explanations and links to digitised books.
Enter the virtual museum ↗Yes. The museum is available on this website, with interactive model views, written explanations and narrated stops. The online experience is distinct from an announcement of an on-site museum opening.
Start the online tour ↗The museum reading room links to the Internet Archive Naval Kishore Press Collection, Heidelberg University Library, Rekhta and eGangotri. Original archive records provide publication details and available scans.
Browse the archival reading room ↗The Living Lab combines the 3D campus with interactive sustainability learning and a QR-enabled guardian quest. Visitors can explore checkpoints, clues and digital collectibles through the website.
Explore the Living Lab ↗The Green Story explains adaptive reuse, retained building materials, courtyards, trees, trellis shading, rainwater harvesting and wastewater reuse. It separates published project figures from the assumptions used in the digital climate study.
Watch and read the Green Story ↗The heritage-tour page currently presents a coming-soon experience. Register interest and check the latest announcement with Le Press before making travel or booking plans.
Check the heritage-tour announcement ↗Use the events page for campus announcements and follow the official Instagram handle @lepress_lucknow. The community page welcomes ideas from visitors and local makers.
See events and announcements ↗Le Press’s campus information is maintained by the Le Press team. Historical research and original book scans are linked in the museum. Heidelberg University Library records the press’s founding in 1858; Sustainability Next provides the published project account discussed in the Green Story.
Page reviewed: 11 October 2026. For changing visit arrangements, contact the campus team or the individual venue.
THE CFCPD MANIFESTO · GAURAV VATSA
Le Press is a metaverse-enabled heritage destination in Hazratganj, Lucknow. Its browser-based 3D campus, Newal Kishore Press Virtual Museum and QR-enabled collectibles connect the physical place with an interactive digital experience.
This vision puts The CFCPD Manifesto: Culture, Finance, Community, Planet, Digital — A New Framework for Regenerative Urbanism into practice. Written by Gaurav Vatsa, the architect of the Le Press development, the book connects five dimensions of a place’s continuing life.
Explore Gaurav Vatsa’s book on Amazon ↗ · Enter the virtual museum · Play the QR quest