Restoring lost heritage: Capitol Complex to be revamped, CBRI Roorkee roped in for help.

Considered to be an uneconomical project that earned much criticism from politicians when it was being constructed, the Capitol Complex in Sector 1 has brought the city to the world heritage map. For its creator Le Corbusier, it was a project he was convinced should be set up in the newly created city that was a product of the vision of the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Nehru laid the founding principles of the new city when he said, 'Let this be a new town, symbolic of freedom of India unfettered by the traditions of the past… an expressions of the nation’s faith in the future'. The city that was envisioned just after partition was to serve as the new capital of erstwhile Punjab.

It was a unique design with which the city was created. The Capitol Complex was the head of the city, the seat of power. The plaza was to be its heart, green spaces its lungs and industrial area to be the viscera.


THE INDIAN EXPRESS