Gigacer launches tile range based on Le Corbusier's colour theory
At Milan design week, Italian manufacturer Gigacer has launched a collection of tiles in greys and primary colours drawn directly from Le Corbusier's colour guides. More
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Competition: win furniture designed by Le Corbusier, Eero Saarinen and Achille Castiglioni
Dezeen has teamed up with Aram Store to offer our UK readers a chance to win a lounge chair designed by Le Corbusier, a side table by Eero Saarinen or a table lamp by Achille Castiglioni. More
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Rare Le Corbusier pop-up book showcases his colour theories
A rare first edition of Le Corbusier's 1931 interactive design guide Polychromie Architecturale: Die Farbenklaviaturen is up for auction in New York. More
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Discover Le Corbusier's most important architecture on Dezeen's new Pinterest board
World Heritage Corb: many of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's most important works feature on our latest Pinterest board, which we've created to mark the end of our series exploring the 17 of his buildings recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
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Cité Radieuse combines elements from many of Le Corbusier's previous designs
World Heritage Corb: Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille is one of French-Swiss architect's most recognised buildings, and is the last in our series exploring the 17 of his projects added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Maison Guiette is his only surviving Belgian building
World Heritage Corb: Maison Guiette in Belgium was Le Corbusier's first commission outside of France, but is one of the lesser-known of his 17 buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier designed Villa Le Lac as a lakeside home for his parents
World Heritage Corb:Â the lakeside home Le Corbusier designed for his parents is next up in our series in which we take a closer look at the 17 projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. More
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Kardashians discuss book about famous architect "Le Courvoisier"
Reality stars the Kardashians have emerged as unlikely fans of Modernist architecture, with Kris Jenner revealing on their TV show that she's reading a book about "Le Courvoisier, which is an architect" (+ movie). More
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Le Corbusier's Claude et Duval Factory demonstrates his Modulor proportion system
World Heritage Corb: French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's humble hosiery factory in France was one of the first buildings designed with proportions based on his innovative Modulor system, and has recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Maison Curutchet in Argentina has a tree at its centre
World Heritage Corb: commissioned by an Argentinian surgeon, Maison Curutchet is the only project in Latin America among the 17 Le Corbusier-designed buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Immeuble Molitor provides residents with "sky, trees, steel and concrete"
World Heritage Corb: a 1930s apartment building in Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, intended to afford residents a contemporary lifestyle, is among his projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Chandigarh government buildings captured in new images by Benjamin Hosking
World Heritage Corb: for the next instalment in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list, Australian photographer Benjamin Hosking shares new images of Capitol Complex in Chandigarh – the Indian city that gave the architect a chance to test his Modernist theories on a grand scale (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Immeuble Clarté housing informed his Unité d'Habitation design
World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). More
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Felice Varini creates optical illusion on roof of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation
Swiss artist Felice Varini has used brightly coloured paintwork to transform the rooftop of Le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille into a huge optical illusion (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche-Jeanneret was designed for his brother and a close friend
World Heritage Corb: next in our series on the 17 Le Corbusier buildings that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Maison La Roche-Jeanneret in Paris – designed to provide a home for the architect's brother and a separate residence and gallery for a friend with a collection of cubist art (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye encapsulates the Modernist style
World Heritage Corb: one of the most important buildings by architect Le Corbusier from the 17 that have been to UNESCO's World Heritage List is Villa Savoye, the top-heavy weekend retreat created as a Modernist version of the French country house (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart was part of a Modernist housing exhibition
World heritage Corb: two residential units in Stuttgart designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret have recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List along with 16 other projects by the famed French-Swiss architect (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's colourful Cité Frugès workers' housing now hosts fashionable apartments
World Heritage Corb: the long-neglected housing complex designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier for workers of a sugar factory outside Bordeaux, recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, has found a new life as desirable apartments. More
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Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel is one of the 20th century's most important buildings
World Heritage Corb: next up in our series on the 17 buildings by Le Corbusier that have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is the architect's Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, the small chapel in Ronchamp, France, that has become one of his most iconic designs. More
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Le Corbusier's National Museum of Western Art is his only building in the Far East
World heritage Corb: one of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's lesser-known buildings among the 17 recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List is a concrete museum in Tokyo, which holds a collection dedicated to western thought and art. More
