The Chandigarh Capitol Complex, in the Indian city of Chandigarh, was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and the British architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, its foundation stone laid on November 1, 1952, as the seat of government for a newly created state capital built after India's 1947 partition. The complex comprises three principal buildings, the Palace of Assembly, the Secretariat and the Punjab and Haryana High Court, set across roughly 100 hectares alongside four sculptural monuments including the Open Hand and the Tower of Shadows and an artificial lake. Built in raw exposed concrete, or beton brut, the buildings apply Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture and his Modulor system of human proportion, and their double skinned roofs and brise-soleil sunshades were engineered to control the region's intense heat without mechanical cooling. UNESCO inscribed the complex as a World Heritage Site in 2016, as part of a seventeen site listing covering Le Corbusier's architectural work across three continents.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own account Completed YearSourced to the subject's own accountMarks the completion of the Palace of Assembly, the complex's final major building; the Secretariat and High Court were completed earlier in the 1950s. Classification
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Chandigarh Capitol Complex is a government compound designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his co-workers in Chandigarh, India.
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Chandigarh Capitol Complex is a government compound designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his co-workers in Chandigarh, India.
It comprises three buildings: the Palace of Assembly, Secretariat Building and the High Court plus four monuments (Open Hand Monument, Geometric Hill, Tower of Shadows and the Martyrs Monument) and a lake.
Spreading over an area of around 100 ha (0.39 sq mi), it is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with sixteen other works by Le Corbusier for its contribution to the development of modernist architecture.
Le Corbusier designed the "Tower of
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Architecture section, style sentence
The Capitol Complex is a landmark of modernist architecture, employing beton brut (exposed concrete) and pioneering construction techniques.
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh
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Construction of the Palace of Assembly began in 1951 and ended 11 years later in 1962.
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