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‘It is said that Le Corbusier spent several months arriving at the exact form for the pilotis.’ The main structure of the ... When Corbusier was called in to build apartments for the Marseilles ...

Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), toadvise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio’s 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis ...

Maison Guiette / Le Corbusier. Image © Kris Vandevorst, via Wikipedia under CC BY 4.0 While today it is overshadowed by the architect's more famous works, this house ...

The HUD building, shaped like a dog-bone in plan and raised on stocky pairs of supports resembling pigs’ legs—a variation on the stilts, or pilotis, employed by Le Corbusier—is listed ... home to his ...

Burroughs Wellcome’s corporate temple, a pile of beige concrete pods mounted on pilotis and jutting out ... the successor to the Modernist master Le Corbusier by The New York Times Magazine ...

The Immeuble Clarté apartment block in the Eaux Vives parklands of Geneva is one of Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s early explorations ... open-plan living spaces, pilotis, long windows and expansive ...

A Le Corbusier structure has hit the market for perhaps the first time in its century of existence. The sunny Miestchaninoff House-Studio stands three stories tall amidst a thicket of trees ...

Sitting outside the famed Rotonde café in Montparnasse in 1921, the late Abstract Painter Fernand Léger spied what he described as “an extraordinary mobile object” bicycling alone, dressed ...

French designers Marie Cornil and Alexandre Willaume have filled an apartment in Le Corbusier's iconic Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille with custom furniture, including a leather-and ...