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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In 1923 in Paris, wealthy collector Raoul La Roche gave Le Corbusier carte blanche to adapt his colorful “purist” art to architecture.
Read moreThe Eiffel Tower has donned a new golden-brown coat for the 2024 Olympic Games, giving an excuse to take a closer look.
Read moreWith its sturdy trapezoids, the conference pavilion at the Maison de L’Unesco seems to have been born under a lucky star of brutalism…
Read moreFor the last project of his lifetime, Le Corbusier reinvented himself to design a colorful, sculptural Brutalist UFO.
Read moreAt 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!
Read moreIn Firminy, France, Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre church is in the public eye, but hides some of the forgotten secrets of its design…
Read moreArchitectural journey into the belly of Oscar Niemeyer’s “feminine” architecture.
Read moreIn the heart of the city of Le Havre, culture is nestled in volcanoes designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreIn Paris La Défense, the CNIT building with its impressive concrete vault has been enclosed since the 1970s in a concrete slab district.
Read moreWhat is hidden behind the apparent lightness of the black mesh veil of the Mucem by architect Rudi Ricciotti?
Read moreIn Lyon, France, architect Henri Pottier designed an auditorium in a brutalist concrete shell with a bunkerized look.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreIn Lyon, France, for the former Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization, architect Bernard Zehrfuss hid his brutalist architecture inside a hill.
Read moreLarge housing complex of brutalist inspiration in the heart of Paris, the Orgues de Flandres play an original score.
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreIn 2020, during the period of deconfinement when our train stations and airports remained deserted, I took advantage of this unique moment to revisit the organic architecture of the Lyon Saint-Exupéry TGV station.
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