Open Hand Monument
Also known as La Main Ouverte
1985
Modernism
public art
Le Corbusier conceived the Open Hand in 1948 as the official emblem of his new capital for post-Partition Punjab, but the monument itself was not raised until 1985, twenty years after his death, in Sector 1 of the Capitol Complex against…
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- 1985
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
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