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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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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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 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.
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 moreDuring a ski trip in the French Alps a few years ago, I discovered this amazing 50 years old brutalist ski resort designed by the architect Marcel Breuer.
Read moreThe Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, nicknamed the “crystal cloud” by its designer, architect Wolf D. Prix, deploys a chaotic and controversial deconstructivist architecture.
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