The Palace of Justice has been in use since March 1956. The approaches have net as yet been prepared : two of the three basins of water have not yet been excavated in front of the Palace; the exterior polychromy is enlivened, for the moment, on the principal façade, only by the brise-soleil of the Courts of Justice; the three pylons of the grand entrance portico, coated with a cement rendering, are to be painted-one green, the other white, and the third in red-orange, both left and right walls to be painted black.

The 650 meters of tapestry, completed in five months by Indian craftsmen in Kashmir busy since the inauguration of the building, for the lower parts of the small Courts of Justice (eight tapestries of 64 m2 each) and for the lower portion of the large Court of Justice (a tapestry of 144 m2) provoked the delighted acquiescence of Mr. Nehru and the Governor of Punjab as well as the Chief Judge. But they also aroused doubts in the minds of some judges who declared that they were an outrage to the dignity of justice and caused two or three of them to be removed. The day of reinstatement shall come-have patience !

The Palace of Justice in Chandigarh represents a positive premier manifestation of an esthetic possible in reinforced concrete. The fact that stupefaction reigns so often is natural in Chandigarh; but the fact that the amenities of the park-the trees, the flowers, the greens, the pavements of stone and cement, the monuments anticipated in the plan shall be achieved, resulting altogether in a rigorously concerted symphony, shall, at that time, cause the people to cease their complaining and, instead, give thanks!

Extract from Le Corbusier, Oeuvre complète, volume 6, 1952-1957