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Immeuble Clarté is an
"Restauration de l'immeuble Clarté de Le Corbusier", 24 August 2007
/ref> In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as
apartment building
An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...
in Geneva
, neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier
, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...
designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
Pierre Jeanneret (22 March 1896 – 4 December 1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his cousin, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier), for about twenty years.
Early life
Arnold-André-Pierre Jea ...
starting from 1928 and built in 1931–32. It has eight stories comprising 45 free plan
In architecture, a free plan is an open plan with non- load-bearing walls dividing interior space. In this structural system, the building structure is separate of the interior partitions. This is made possible by replacing interior load-bearin ...
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
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form ...
in apartment buildings, which later led to the Unité d'Habitation
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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
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as a historic monument.City of Geneva"Restauration de l'immeuble Clarté de Le Corbusier", 24 August 2007
/ref> In July 2016, the building and several other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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.
References
Further reading
*Sumi, Christian: "Immeuble Clarté Genf 1932 von Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret", Zürich: gta, ETH Zürich 1989,External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Immeuble Clarte Apartment buildings Buildings and structures in Geneva Le Corbusier buildings Residential buildings in Switzerland Modernist architecture in Switzerland