Day
4
Open
Hand
The Open hand is Chandigarh's official emblem designed by Le Corbusier. It is located in Sector 1 in the capitol Complex. It has been designed in the form of a giant hand made from metal sheets that rotates like a weathercock, indicating the direction of wind. The open hand is 14 metres high and weighs around 50 tonnes.
The Open hand is Chandigarh's official emblem designed by Le Corbusier. It is located in Sector 1 in the capitol Complex. It has been designed in the form of a giant hand made from metal sheets that rotates like a weathercock, indicating the direction of wind. The open hand is 14 metres high and weighs around 50 tonnes.
The world is undergoing a fever of clasping mortal contradictions. It is agreed! The world may burst! It is possible!
The machinist civilization for its hundred years of scientific and technical conquest will shortly have the fruits for its efforts. The balance sheet is eloquent.
One science universally researched, practiced and developed.
An unprecedented technical equipment, revolutionary in the human history, is capable of producing the unlimited products for fruitful consumption and sensational information owing to the progress in photography, cinema and sound recording embraces an extensive domain between the astronomic spaces and the microscopic pro founders. This information through the effects of printing, radio and television, clothed with precision and exactitude, is responded all over the world with the rapidity of lightning. Everyday the world is instructed of its proper palpitation. The science of aeronautics is added to the means of land and naval transports. The air route has introduced a major modification in the relations between human groups.At last the fission of the atom will upset the sources of energy and thus the production. The abundance seems to be the sign of the epoch.
The open hand to receive, the open hand to give should be chosen as a symbolic materialization of all these victories.
Open for receiving the created richness…
Open for the distribution to India’s people and to others.
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Le
Corbusier Centre
Le
Corbusier’s ingenuity and inventiveness inspired a lot of faith in then Prime
Minister, Nehru; and he paid the trust manifold over the years. Filled with
archives, photographs, telegrams, blueprints and paintings from the
multi-faceted architect is the Le Corbusier Centre.
The
Old Architects’ Office situated in Sector 19 is of immense historic value to Chandigarh;
it was the design workplace of Corbusier and his team. It is a significant
resource for understanding the technological, formal and aesthetic spirit of
modern architecture, as also its peculiar manifestation in the context of
Chandigarh.
Besides
contributing to the ongoing international deliberations about the policies for
conserving modern heritage, this project is a landmark as a first ever project
of conservation and adaptive re-use undertaken by the Chandigarh administration.
Le
Corbusier quotes
- Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of form in light.
- Space and light and order, these are the things that men need just as much as they need bread and a place to sleep.
Chandigarh Trivia
Sector
17 used to be a Harrappan civilization settlement. What a coincidence-the two
almost identically planned cities-Chandigarh’s sectorial and Harrappan grid
layouts-complement one another as if time meant them to perpetuate a tradition
of planned settlement in this part of the world. History repeats itself albeit
5000 years in time and over 3 metres of silt in between.
Chandigarh
Golf Club
We
arrived after a short walk from the Cell and found elderly golfers doing the
same between their rounds of golf. A quick one minute meeting with the general
manager of the ongoing tournament and we got ourselves busy with covering the
mounds and bunkers and tees and eagles around the sprawling 18-hole course.
Sukhna
Lake
The
man-made lake is home to quacks of hundreds ducks. The duck peculiarly get wet
and then get dry and continue to do so all day.A quick grub and shared bites later,we
picked up a few souvenirs from the shop.
Graffiti
One
of the indications of an open, cosmopolitan city is the how she treats its artists.
If she is open to subversions and representations of popular cultures, it says
a lot. Here are some samples of the paintings and graffiti done by the students
of the Chandigarh' Govt. Art College on the road stretching from Sukhna Lake to the
Rock Garden in Sector 4. In fact they let us try our hand for a few broad
strokes. The students splashed paint to bring to life Raj Kapoor, Charlie
Chaplin, the minions, Heath Ledger’s Joker, Arabian knights, Pulp Fiction and
many many more.
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