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The
Palace of Assembly
in
Chandigarh
, India, is a legislative assembly building designed by modernist architect
Le Corbusier
forming part of the
Chandigarh Capitol Complex
– a larger government compound including several other buildings such as the
Secretariat Building
and the
Palace of Justice
. Constructed to serve as the administrative capital for
the eastern half
of the historic British Indian
Punjab province
that remained in India after the 1947
partition of India
, the compound, along with sixteen other
globally scattered buildings designed by Le Corbusier
, was designated a
World Heritage Site
by
UNESCO
in 2016. The Palace of Assembly houses the legislatures of the present-day northern Indian states of
Punjab
and
Haryana
.
Photograph credit: duncid, retouched by
UnpetitproleX
and
Aristeas
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