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    The Unité d'Habitation is a modernist residential housing design developed by Le Corbusier. The first and most famous building using this design is located in Marseille, France and was built between 1947-1952. It comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories suspended on large pilotis and incorporates communal facilities. Inside, corridors run through the center of every third floor with apartments stretching from one side of the building to the other and including balconies. The building helped influence the Brutalist architectural style through its use of rough-cast concrete construction necessitated by postwar shortages. Le Corbusier repeated this design in four additional buildings built in Nantes-Rezé, Berlin-Westend, Briey,

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    The Unité d'Habitation is a modernist residential housing design developed by Le Corbusier. The first and most famous building using this design is located in Marseille, France and was built between 1947-1952. It comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories suspended on large pilotis and incorporates communal facilities. Inside, corridors run through the center of every third floor with apartments stretching from one side of the building to the other and including balconies. The building helped influence the Brutalist architectural style through its use of rough-cast concrete construction necessitated by postwar shortages. Le Corbusier repeated this design in four additional buildings built in Nantes-Rezé, Berlin-Westend, Briey,

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    The Unité d'Habitation is a modernist residential housing design developed by Le Corbusier. The first and most famous building using this design is located in Marseille, France and was built between 1947-1952. It comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories suspended on large pilotis and incorporates communal facilities. Inside, corridors run through the center of every third floor with apartments stretching from one side of the building to the other and including balconies. The building helped influence the Brutalist architectural style through its use of rough-cast concrete construction necessitated by postwar shortages. Le Corbusier repeated this design in four additional buildings built in Nantes-Rezé, Berlin-Westend, Briey,

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    The Unité d'Habitation is a modernist residential housing design developed by Le Corbusier. The first and most famous building using this design is located in Marseille, France and was built between 1947-1952. It comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories suspended on large pilotis and incorporates communal facilities. Inside, corridors run through the center of every third floor with apartments stretching from one side of the building to the other and including balconies. The building helped influence the Brutalist architectural style through its use of rough-cast concrete construction necessitated by postwar shortages. Le Corbusier repeated this design in four additional buildings built in Nantes-Rezé, Berlin-Westend, Briey,

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    The Unité d'Habitation was a modernist residential housing design developed by Le Corbusier that formed the basis for several housing developments across Europe with this name. The most famous building of this type is located in Marseille and incorporates apartments, shops, facilities, and a pool/terrace.

    The Unité d'Habitation proved enormously influential and is often cited as the initial inspiration of the Brutalist architectural style and philosophy.

    The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete), as the hoped-for steel frame proved too expensive in light of post-War shortages.

    Unité d'Habitation

    The Unité d'Habitation (French, literally, "Housing Unity" or "Housing Unit" since Unité has a
    double meaning in French) is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle
    developed by Le Corbusier (with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso), which
    formed the basis of several housing developments designed by him throughout Europe with this
    name. The first and most famous of these buildings, also known as Cité Radieuse (radiant city)
    and, informally, as La Maison du Fada (French - Provençal, "The Lunatic's House"), is located
    in Marseille, France, built 1947-1952. Probably his most famous work, it proved enormously
    influential and is often cited as the initial inspiration of the Brutalist architectural style and
    philosophy.

    The Marseille building comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories, all suspended on
    large piloti. The building also incorporates shops, sporting, medical and educational facilities,
    and a hotel. The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks and
    a swimming pool.

    Inside, corridors run through the centre of the long axis of every third floor of the building, with
    each apartment lying on two levels, and stretching from one side of the building to the other,
    with a balcony. In the block's planning, the architect heavily drew on his study of the Soviet
    Communal housing project, the Narkomfin Building. Appropriately, unlike many of the inferior
    system-built blocks it inspired, which lack the original's generous proportions, communal
    facilities and parkland setting, the Unité is popular with its residents and is now mainly occupied
    by middle-class professionals.

    The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete), as the hoped-for steel frame
    proved too expensive in light of post-War shortages. The replacement material influenced the
    Brutalist movement, and the building inspired several housing complexes including the Alton
    West estate in Roehampton, London, and Park Hill in Sheffield. These buildings have attracted a
    great deal of criticism. Other, more successful, manifestations of the Unité include Chamberlin,
    Powell & Bon's Barbican Estate (completed 1982), Gordon Tait's Samuda Estate, Isle of Dogs
    (1965) and Ernő Goldfinger's Trellick Tower (1972), all in London.

    Le Corbusier's utopian city living design was repeated in four more buildings with this name and
    a very similar design. The other Unités were built in Nantes-Rezé 1955, Berlin-Westend 1957,
    Briey 1963 and Firminy 1965.

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