Design

this building is cool but having lived in it for a bit off and on there are some ways in which this modernist dream of urban life is v flawed

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ahh the unite’s are so interesting to live in. i’ve only stayed a night but i hope your unit gets good sunlight with corbu’s layout. 

scaling the 6 points of architecture is tall measure. 

the roof decks are something when the community hangs out together.

(2 different units on different floors and different faces of the building)

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the furniture is partly contemporaneous (and the chairs and table in the front right of the first pic are orig. perriand). the blue mosaic tiled space has no free-floating furniture left inside. apparently was the atelier of the building's structural engineer.

the traversant duplexes are the best tbh

is that the original furniture? did you like the elongated rectangular floor plan?

nice 

the journees patrimoine program here opens up stuff like this periodically so it is actually pretty easy to see it

was at the unité in berlin. no hotel but we got access through a professors friend.

did you stay in the hotel? i was in 2 units on the 3f and the 5f. will hunt for some photos. the light was pretty good

i am growing ever closer to the christopher alexander way of approaching architecture tbh

these days the community in the cité radieuse is a lot of pretty rich design aficionados — a lot of owners seem to be investors who don't live in the bldg