Posts tagged with Le Corbusier

Apartment 258 – The 3D painting in the Berlin living machine

The architect Philipp Mohr managed what Le Corbusier could never complete and realised the original plans of the great architect in his apartment of the Berlin Unité: he reconstructed the apartment through intensive studies on originals as well as using the original Le Corbusier colours.

Colour rave – Le Corbusier's Architectural Polychromy in the design hotel Miramonte

With the help of Le Corbusier's Polychromie Architecturale, a lovingly thought-out and modern design hotel was created in dealing with the existing architecture, which is given an unmistakable character through delicate as well as intense colour compositions.

Le Corbusier’s residential unit "Type Berlin"

The Unité d'Habitation in Berlin-Charlottenburg differs in some architectural features from its sisters in France. Some features are missing, but Le Corbusier found clever solutions to cover up the deviations.For the 60th anniversary, the Paris artist Florence Cosnefroy now realised the project "Colour Dialogue".

Studio-Apartment Le Corbusier

After two years of extensive restoration work, the Parisian studio apartment by Le Corbusier is back to its original state.

Between form and function

Designing a chair that meets all the functional and aesthetic quality requirements is always a great challenge for the designer. The Swiss furniture designer This Weber describes the idea and design process using the example of a chair.

Appartement de la Polychromie

The Parisian old-style apartment designed by architect Alessandra Pisi Joncoux by Pisi Design, it was time to breathe new life - now it shines after a complete renovation in the fresh Le Corbusier nuances.

Le Corbusier´s Fourth Dimension

The exhibition of the Cobra Museum for Modern Art places the multi-dimensionality of Le Corbusier in the foreground - with original, and as yet unpublished, drawings, paintings, tapestries and objects.

Interior architecture as a full-body experience

In conversation with meierei Interior Design & Design on conception and implementation of an architectural "whole-body experience".

Le Corbusier’s Colour Keyboards

To support the polychrome colour design, Le Corbusier developed the colour keyboards. In an interview we talk with colour expert Dr.Kalthegener.

The colours of the collective

On Le Corbusier's colour concept in collective building, Les Couleurs® Le Corbusier speaks with the French architect and architecture historian Pascal Mory, as well as Fabian Hörmann, associate at the Zurich architectural office EM2N.