Corbusierhaus
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Corbusierhaus is a 1958 apartment block Le Corbusier designed as a Unité d'Habitation for the Interbau exhibition, built to help resolve West Berlin's postwar housing shortage. The rough-concrete high-rise runs 141 metres long and holds 530 flats, an early landmark of Brutalist architecture. Its units became condominiums in 1979.
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Unité d'Habitation of Berlin (The name given by Le Corbusier is Unité d'habitation "Typ Berlin") is a 1958 apartment building located in Berlin-Westend (borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf), Germany, designed by Le Corbusier following his concept of Unité d'Habitation. Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept was materialised in four other buildings in France with a similar design. The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete) and is part of the initial architecture style we know today as brutalism. The structure was built with on site prefab cast concrete panels and poured ceiling slabs. The Modulor system is the base measure of the Unité and Corbusier used not more than 15 Modulor measures to construct the entire structure form. The work was ultimately deleted from Le Corbusier's oeuvre, which he himself affirmed until his death in 1965, and which was again confirmed posthumously in 1967 with the final publication of his authorized oeuvre. It is located southeast of the Olympiastadion S-Bahn station.
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- Why stop at Corbusierhaus on a bike ride?
- Corbusierhaus is a 1958 apartment block Le Corbusier designed as a Unité d'Habitation for the Interbau exhibition, built to help resolve West Berlin's postwar housing shortage. The rough-concrete high-rise runs 141 metres long and holds 530 flats, an early landmark of Brutalist architecture. Its units became condominiums in 1979.
- Where is Corbusierhaus?
- Corbusierhaus is in Berlin, Berlin (Germany).