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Shame on me, but I knew that there was more than one Unite d’Habitation by le Corbusier, but I didn’t realize that there are five:
The first and most famous of these buildings, also known as Cité radieuse (radiant city) and, informally, as La Maison du Fada (French – Provençal, “The House of the Mad”), is located in Marseille, France, built 1947-1952. One of Le Corbusiers’s most famous works, it proved enormously influential and is often cited as the initial inspiration of the Brutalist architectural style and philosophy.
The Marseille building, developed with Corbusier’s designers Shadrach Woods and George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories, all suspended on large piloti. The building also incorporates shops with architectural bookshop, sporting, medical and educational facilities, a hotel which is open to the public, and a gastronomic restaurant, Le Ventre de l’Architecte (“The Architect’s Belly”). The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool for children. The roof, where a number of theatrical performances have taken place, underwent renovation in 2010. It has unobstructed views of the Mediterranean and Marseille.
The Rice School of Architecture took ring roads from two dozen international cities, layering the ring roads at the same scale, and color coded them. The result is Ring Roads of the World, for their 2012 lecture series.
Halley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. A design competition was launched by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the British Antarctic Survey in June 2004 for Halley VI which was won by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects. Halley VI is a structure which is jacked up on legs to keep it above the accumulation of snow with skis on the bottom of these legs, which allows the building to be relocated periodically.
Reality Check: Developers React to MoMA’s Show, “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream”:
But during a panel on March 8 at the museum sponsored by the Forum for Urban Design, two developers, an architecture professor, and a real estate lawyer reacted soberly to the adventurous and optimistic schemes. Though the panelists agreed that the foreclosure crisis will lead to major changes in suburban development, they all thought new patterns are less likely to be brought about by a revised American dream than by economic and demographic factors. And all said it would be very difficult to change zoning laws to permit denser new development patterns, especially in existing “inner-ring” suburbs.
Financing suburban architecture:
My main beef with the show is that it’s far too utopian and impractical. That’s par for the course when it comes to museum architecture shows, but I was hoping for more realistic proposals in this particular case, just because the foreclosure crisis is so real and urgent.
Dream Deferred: The Museum of Modern Art’s “Foreclosed” exhibit is long on art and short on reality.
Any honest attempt to fix the suburbs has to start with facing up to why so many Americans live in the suburbs in the first place, and who those Americans are. Suburban families are bigger than urban families; they like their space; and they like living in places where they’re a good distance from their neighbors and a long way indeed from people of other social classes.
