Insider access to UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Capitol Complex and rare Corbusier's Brutalist architecture – via the top-rated guide on Viator, TripAdvisor & Airbnb
Insider guided access to UNESCO World Heritage Site – Capitol Complex, including The Open Hand, Geometric Hill, Martyrs' Memorial, Tower of Shadows, Punjab High Court, Parliamentary Hall, and the architect's own office and museum.
A rare, private, detailed, intimate journey through socialist housing designed by Pierre, a detailed walking tour of the city plaza, the man-made lake, and the state university's in-depth communal spaces.
See the whole story of Chandigarh – the masterplan and the people who built it. Everything from both tours, across two full days.
Discover Le Corbusier's biggest brutalist French modernistic experiment, viz., the city of Chandigarh like never before, with rare, exclusive, insider private access to heritage masterpieces.
Curated experience for architects, students & anyone looking to experience a new side of 20th-century modernist India. Guided access inside UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Capitol Complex, with hidden gems – explaining core Brutalist architecture through a hilariously entertaining style.
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While Le Corbusier drew the blueprints, it was Pierre Jeanneret who spent 15 years on the ground, designing the furniture, the housing blocks, the civic buildings and the everyday fabric of this utopian city. This tour uncovers that rarely told story.
From the first batch of government socialist housing – still functioning as tight-knit communities – to the insider civic life of Sector 17, the Ramsar-certified wetlands of Sukhna Lake, and the intimate communal spaces of Punjab University's heritage housing. A deep, rare, off-the-beaten-path Chandigarh.
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Gandhi Bhawan
Lotus flower shaped lecture hall designed by Pierre Jeanneret which is surrounded by water & still naturally cooled without air conditioning
Stu C Building
Béton brut aesthetic of the heart of the University’s political and cultural centre
AC Joshi Library
Jeanneret’s intimate human centric architecture with passive controlled climate design, a contrast from Corbusier’s grandeur
Maison Jeanneret
The first house ever created in Chandigarh, including Le Corbusier’s actual bedroom!
Le Corbusier Centre
Modern India’s groundbreaking attempt at green sustainable architecture in Le Corbusier’s old architect’s office
Architecture Museum
Original furniture, letters, & forgotten heritage of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry & Matthew Nowicki
Palace of Justice / High Court
Observe the heat deflection, play with lights and shadows with symbolic transparency of the governance with the public
Open Hand
Chandigarh’s grand symbol created by Le Corbusier for peace & openness with its concrete amphitheatre
Tower of Shadows
Corbusier’s symbolic structure to showcase how sunlight can be manipulated from within four walls even in a hot country
Geometric Hill
Corbusier’s geometric symbol of the daily balance of light and darkness which “rules man’s activity,” made out of waste constructional materials
Palace of Assembly / Punjab Legislative Assembly
Le Corbusier’s biggest architecture magic with raw béton brut concrete pours, hyperbolic paraboloid roof, brise-soleil, reflecting water pool & more
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Lotus flower shaped lecture hall designed by Pierre Jeanneret which is surrounded by water & still naturally cooled without air conditioning
Béton brut aesthetic of the heart of the University’s political and cultural centre
Jeanneret’s intimate human centric architecture with passive controlled climate design, a contrast from Corbusier’s grandeur
The first house ever created in Chandigarh, including Le Corbusier’s actual bedroom!
Modern India’s groundbreaking attempt at green sustainable architecture in Le Corbusier’s old architect’s office
Original furniture, letters, & forgotten heritage of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Jane Drew, Maxwell Fry & Matthew Nowicki
Observe the heat deflection, play with lights and shadows with symbolic transparency of the governance with the public
Chandigarh’s grand symbol created by Le Corbusier for peace & openness with its concrete amphitheatre
Corbusier’s symbolic structure to showcase how sunlight can be manipulated from within four walls even in a hot country
Corbusier’s geometric symbol of the daily balance of light and darkness which “rules man’s activity,” made out of waste constructional materials
Le Corbusier’s biggest architecture magic with raw béton brut concrete pours, hyperbolic paraboloid roof, brise-soleil, reflecting water pool & more
Heritage architecture in the original childhood neighborhood of your guide, designed by Pierre Jeanneret
The commercial & lifestyle heart designed by Corbusier, where protests, dates, performances & street crowd play
(Circumstantial) Biggest, tallest building of Chandigarh. Unprecedented possible rare access to the roof to view the whole city & Capitol Complex
Corbusier’s reprise for the citizens to break the humdrum of the city, with forests on the side
A rogue artist’s hidden project for 17 years, made out of waste, in defiance of Corbusier’s organized grids
Le Corbusier’s 3rd museum in the world, largest collection of Gandhara, miniature, and Pahari artwork
Local citizens & architects funded & designed war memorial, completing Corbusier’s unfinished project
Socialist Housing
Heritage architecture in the original childhood neighborhood of your guide, designed by Pierre Jeanneret
Sector 17 Commercial Plaza
The commercial & lifestyle heart designed by Corbusier, where protests, dates, performances & street crowd play
The Secretariat
(Circumstantial) Biggest, tallest building of Chandigarh. Unprecedented possible rare access to the roof to view the whole city & Capitol Complex
Sukhna Lake
Corbusier’s reprise for the citizens to break the humdrum of the city, with forests on the side
Rock Garden
A rogue artist’s hidden project for 17 years, made out of waste, in defiance of Corbusier’s organized grids
Government Museum & Art Gallery
Le Corbusier’s 3rd museum in the world, largest collection of Gandhara, miniature, and Pahari artwork
War Memorial
Local citizens & architects funded & designed war memorial, completing Corbusier’s unfinished project
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