Chandigarh, once a green and well-planned city, now faces pollution and unchecked urbanization, highlighted by recent ...

the cradle of post-independence identity-building for an architecture of India that symbolised the birth of the newly independent nation. (The other three buildings Le Corbusier designed in ...

They were built over a period of a half-century, in the course of what Le Corbusier described as “patient research”. The Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh (India), the National Museum of Western Art, ...

Historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said, ‘A cow shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is architecture’. By turning the ...

Chandigarh is independent India’s first planned city. Designed by the French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, popular as Le Corbusier, it serves as a capital of Punjab and Haryana.