| from the usual good-ideas-in-architecture department,
| apropos the non-signed masterplan (to keep the planning fanatics away)
| story of yesterday. The museum of knowledge might be built finally,
| and we only hope it incorporates those bullworker-taut ideas from
| the Phillips shell inside -- some le Corbusier realizations
| are a long overdue.
Chandigarh, Oct 15 (IANS) Building a museum of knowledge in Chandigarh,
which was an unfinished dream of the city's French founder-architect Le
Corbusier, could finally become a reality.
The city administration has now sought public opinion and debate over
the design and the purpose of having such a museum.
Chandigarh, a city spanning 114 sq km, is the joint capital of Punjab
and Haryana. It is known as post-independent India's first planned city
and has a population of one million.
The city's website states: "Sadly, the pivotal structure of the museum
of knowledge has still not been built, leaving Le Corbusier's great
masterpiece somewhat like an unfinished symphony."
Corbusier, in the early 1950s, had suggested that the museum comprise
four major components - technology, sociology, economics and ethics. He
had pointed out that these were the basics of human interaction, as
these issues arise wherever human beings interact.
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