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Sited on the side of the esplanade between the Assembly Hall and the
High Court, Martyr's Memorial has a distinct character of its own.
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including a prone figure, a lion and a snake amid the broken ruins.
But none of these art pieces, as suggested by Le Corbusier, have been
Corbusier Centre, as he shows us the swastika sign that now adorns
the structure.
The concrete ramp permitting one to see the entire Capitol Complex
from above, the memorial was conceived as a part of Le Corbusier's
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in the field of art and architecture. She felt that the symbols of Corbusier's philosophy should be
made evident to the residents of Chandigarh. One evening, on the lawn outside the Chandigarh rest
house where Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeaneret, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were continuing their
discussion regarding the project, Drew said: 'Le Corbusier, you should set up in the heart of the
Capitol the signs which symbolise the basis of your design philosophy and by which you arrived at
your understanding of the art of city design'."
"These signs should be known as the key to the creation of Chandigarh," Singh tells us these
monuments included the Martyr's Memorial, the Monument of Solar Hours, the Tower of Shadows,
the Modular Sculpture, the Harmonic Spiral, the Trench of Consideration and the Open Hand. But
of these only four have been built the famous Open Hand, the Tower of Shadows, Martyr's
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