Le Corbusier Appartement-Atelier
By erecting eight floors with entirely glass facades, Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret created the first glass residential building in architectural history on the border between Paris and Boulogne.
The apartment-atelier spans the top two floors of an innovative building, designed between 1931 and 1934 by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret on the border between Paris and Boulogne. By erecting eight floors with entirely glass facades, they created the first glass residential building in architectural history. Since 2016, the Molitor Building has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, along with seventeen other major sites created by Le Corbusier. In 2017 and 2018, it underwent a restoration campaign.
The 240 m² duplex accommodates Le Corbusier's residence and painting studio. Bathed in light and connected to nature, it showcases elements of his architectural language: the open floor plan, extensive longitudinal glass panels, rooftop terrace, polychromy, and immense pivot doors that both divide and unify the space.
Le Corbusier Appartement-Atelier
By erecting eight floors with entirely glass facades, Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret created the first glass residential building in architectural history on the border between Paris and Boulogne.
Les Arcades du Lac
Venture forty-five minutes from Paris' city centre to the banlieue, and you will arrive at one of these many social housing complexes with utopian ideals built into their design. Les Arcades du Lac, built in 1981 by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill hosts what now seems like a dystopian Neo-Roman village from the imagination of someone from the 80's idea of the future.
