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1962 · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India

Palace of Assembly image

Seed wave 65 image for the Palace of Assembly.

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Palace of Assembly

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 65 image for the Palace of Assembly.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Rights: Unknown · licensed

Comparison

Field	Palace of Assembly 1962 · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1962	1980
Place	Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	20°C · 13.1h daylight · 5 km/h wind	9°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Legislative assembly	9 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	parliament civic building modernism	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.