Saddam Hussein Gymnasium

Saddam Hussein Gymnasium

Year

1956

Architect

Le Corbusier Le Corbusier

Type

building

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The Baghdad Gymnasium is the only building Le Corbusier ever completed in the Arab world, and he never saw it. King Faisal II commissioned an Olympic sports city for the Iraqi capital in 1956, but the 1958 coup and years of upheaval stalled …

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