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Immeuble Clarté

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1207 Geneva, Switzerland

Immeuble Clarté

Architects
  
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret

Similar
  
Maison Guiette, Quartiers Modernes Frugès, Villa Le Lac, Villa La Roche, Villa Jeanneret‑Perret

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Immeuble Clarté is an apartment building in Geneva designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret starting from 1928 and built in 1931-32. It has eight storeys and comprises 45 free plan units of diverse configurations and sizes. It is one of Le Corbusier's key early projects in which he explored the principles of modernist architecture in apartment buildings, which later led to the Unité d'Habitation design principle.

After it escaped demolition in the 1960s, the building was first renovated in the 1970s. After being again threatened with demolition in the early 1980s, in 1986 it was listed as a historic monument. In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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