Governor's Palace, Chandigarh
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Governor's Palace is a proposed government building in Chandigarh, India. The building was designed by
Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...
, with help from Pierre Jeanneret, a Swiss architect and Corbusier's cousin, but it wasn't built. A model of the building was on display at the Le Corbusier Centre, Zürich, Switzerland and Chandigarh Architecture Museum, Sector 10, Chandigarh. Planning and development of the city of Chandigarh is considered a unique experiment of the modern independent India.


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