IN PICS | Life and works of MN Sharma, Chandigarh’s first Indian chief architect

MN Sharma, the first Indian chief architect of Chandigarh — who died on Sunday — at his house in Chandigarh on June 14, 2015. (HT File Photo)

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MN Sharma, the first Indian chief architect of Chandigarh — who died on Sunday — at his house in Chandigarh on June 14, 2015. (HT File Photo)

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MN Sharma with the sculpture that's placed as a faucet at the top of the fountain at the Sector-17 plaza. (Photo: Sharma’s Family Collection)

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Designed by MN Sharma, the fountain at Sector 17. (HT Photo)

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Designed by MN Sharma, the fountain at Sector 17. (HT Photo)

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MN Sharma’s artwork (HT Photo)

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Tourist Information Centre at Capitol Complex, Sector 1, Chandigarh, designed by MN Sharma. (HT Photo)

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A cement sculpture by MN Sharma. (Photo: Yojna Rawat)

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Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, MN Sharma and former chief engineer, Punjab, PL Verma, in 1956. (Photo: Sharma’s Family Collection)

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A model of the house in which MN Sharma lived to his last day. (HT Photo)

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The house in which MN Sharma lived, in Sector 8, Chandigarh. (HT Photo)

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The late Nek Chand, creator of Rock Garden, working on a pillar in MN Sharma’s house garden in 2010. (Photo: Yojna Rawat)

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MN Sharma with the then PM Indira Gandhi when she visited his office in the early 1970s. (Photo: Sharma’s personal collection)