Article: State of assembly. (new parliament building in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India)

Charles Correa's Assembly complex for the state of Madhya Pradesh at Bhopal is an amalgam of elements from history intricately woven together without kitsch in the heat and light of India.

Charles Correa's work combines a modern sensibility with themes and devices derived from traditional architecture in a harmonious way that seems very difficult to achieve in the West. His new parliament building for Bhopal, the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, in the middle of the country some 400 miles south of Delhi, quite consciously takes the form of its biggest assembly chamber (the Vidhan Sabha) from the great Buddhist stupa at Sanchi, some 30 miles north-east ...

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