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Unité d'Habitation de Marseille

Unité d'Habitation de Marseille

Also known as Cité Radieuse

Architect

Le CorbusierLe Corbusier

Year

1952

Style

Functionalism

Type

apartment block

The Unité d'Habitation de Marseille is Le Corbusier's vertical city: a 1952 postwar housing prototype that compressed apartments, internal shopping streets, shops, roof terrace, and collective facilities into one raised slab. Raised on…

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  1. 1952

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    Le Corbusier

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