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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

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Comparison

Field	Palace of Assembly 1962 · Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1962	1980
Place	Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	38°C · 13.1h daylight · 14 km/h wind	14°C · 13.6h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Legislative assembly	3 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	parliament civic building modernism	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	concrete	concrete
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.