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Chandigarh
Near Sukhna Lake, the Forest Department has fenced six and a half acres into four aviaries, two small ones and two you walk through, each roughly two hundred…
Come for the building rather than the subject. Gandhi Bhawan is a centre given over to the study of Gandhi's words and work, and one of the better-known…
This is the first garden in Chandigarh made with a Japanese touch, and a young one: thirteen acres in Sector 31, opened in November 2014, with a second phase…
An eroded valley ran through the site, and Le Corbusier turned it into a green corridor rather than filling it in.
Nek Chand Saini was a government official who started building this in 1957 in his spare time and in secret, out of industrial waste, household waste and…
Every sculpture in Sector 36-D was a toilet or a washbasin first.
Finished in 1953, the block was built to hold the offices of East Punjab's Chief Secretary.
The water here is engineered. Sukhna was made in 1958 by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming down from the Shivalik hills, and its three square…
The claim is Asia's largest rose garden, and the numbers behind it are thirty acres, 50,000 bushes and some 1,600 species, Royal William and Rosa gallica and…
