Architecture critic William J. R. Curtis warns the Times of India that recent alterations to buildings in Chandigarh, a city in Northern India that was planned by Swiss-French modernist legend Le Corbusier, amount to a "vulgarization" and a "massacring of aesthetic masterpieces" that only harms the city's bid for UNESCO heritage status. Remember, vulgarizing Le Corbusier's works is only fun when it's done via rendering. [Times of India; previously]
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