It is the work of the Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier.
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It is the work of the Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier. This impressive structure, 165 meters long, 24 meters wide and 56 meters high, was built between 1947 and 1951. Its layout is intended to suggest an urban steamboat anchored in a park.
Powerful elements such as the unsurfaced exposed concrete, pilings and blank gable walls are combined with other more sophisticated aspects, such as the subtle arrangement of the multi-coloured loggias, or the...
Powerful elements such as the unsurfaced exposed concrete, pilings and blank gable walls are combined with other more sophisticated aspects, such as the subtle arrangement of the multi-coloured loggias, or the...
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Openings
All year 2024 Open everyday
Localisation
Contact La Cité Radieuse (residential complex)
- www.fondationlecorbusier.fr
Environment
- Subway station < 500 m
- Close to a public transportation
- Bus stop < 500 m