The Grande Arche in Paris, sky’s window
Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, with his ingenious hollowed-out sculptural hypercube, extended the historic Parisian axis toward the sky.
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Palais d’léna, the majestic concrete of Auguste Perret
Of the 3 Palaces created on the hill of Chaillot for the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, Auguste Perret’s museum seems to have won the race for universality against those in Chaillot and Tokyo.
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Maison La Roche, Le Corbusier’s first architectural promenade
In 1923 in Paris, wealthy collector Raoul La Roche gave Le Corbusier carte blanche to adapt his colorful “purist” art to architecture.
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The Eiffel Tower struts its stuff over Paname’s macadam
The Eiffel Tower has donned a new golden-brown coat for the 2024 Olympic Games, giving an excuse to take a closer look.
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Unesco House in Paris, a point of convergence
With its sturdy trapezoids, the conference pavilion at the Maison de L’Unesco seems to have been born under a lucky star of brutalism…
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The Maison de la Culture in Firminy, a Le Corbusier landmark
For the last project of his lifetime, Le Corbusier reinvented himself to design a colorful, sculptural Brutalist UFO.
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The Firminy workers’ Unité d’habitation
At Firminy, green is the fruit of Le Corbusier’s imagination, as his architecture places more importance on space and sunlight than on concrete, which is very much in evidence!
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In the shadow of Le Corbusier’s iconic church
In Firminy, France, Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church is in the public eye, but hides some of the forgotten secrets of its design…
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Espace Niemeyer in Paris, sensual architecture unveiled
Architectural journey into the belly of Oscar Niemeyer’s “feminine” architecture.
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“Le Volcan”: Oscar Niemeyer’s poetic architecture in the city of Le Havre
In the heart of the city of Le Havre, culture is nestled in volcanoes designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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Post-war Le Havre, anchored in concrete by Auguste Perret
In the city of Le Havre, France, Auguste Perret’s architectural studio produced a Brutalist masterpiece, the Church of St. Joseph, in the heart of a city with standardized architecture.
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The brutalist CNIT building at Paris La Défense
In Paris La Défense, the CNIT building with its impressive concrete vault has been enclosed since the 1970s in a concrete slab district.
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Through the veil of the Mucem by Rudy Ricciotti
What is hidden behind the apparent lightness of the black mesh veil of the Mucem by architect Rudi Ricciotti?
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The Lyon Auditorium, a pillbox for classical music
In Lyon, France, architect Henri Pottier designed an auditorium in a brutalist concrete shell with a bunkerized look.
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The “Centre National de la Danse” of Pantin, by Jacques Kalisz
In Pantin near Paris, Jacques Kalisz designed an original brutalist work with Aztec motifs that was transformed in the 21st century into the French National Dance Center.
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The hidden architecture of the Lugdunum museum in Lyon, France
In Lyon, France, for the former Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization, architect Bernard Zehrfuss hid his brutalist architecture inside a hill.
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Relatoscopy of the brutalist “Orgues de Flandre”
Large housing complex of brutalist inspiration in the heart of Paris, the Orgues de Flandres play an original score.
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Modulor, Le Corbusier’s navel of the world
In architecture as elsewhere, the ideal man does not exist. Yet the Corbusier believed to be able to invent it and hope to impose it on the world of construction…
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