GK QUESTION#1671
The city of Chandigarh was planned and many of its major buildings were designed by the architect Le Corbusier, who belonged to which country?
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D. French
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French. Le Corbusier was a French architect and urban planner who designed the modern city of Chandigarh in the 1950s and planned major buildings such as the High Court, Secretariat and Legislative Assembly. Similarly, the central area of New Delhi was designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. In Mumbai, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus was designed by Frederick William Stevens, while the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata was designed by William Emerson.