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Maisons Jaoul are a celebrated pair of houses in the upmarket Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier and built in 1954–56. They are among his most important post-war buildings and feature a rugged aesthetic of unpainted cast concrete " béton brut " and roughly detailed brickwork.
La Ville de Paris; Ville de Paris (department store), Los Angeles, early 20th c. This page was last edited on 17 May 2019, at 13:14 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture , the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of ...
Villa La Roche, also Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker from Basel and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier.
The Ville contemporaine (French pronunciation: [vil kɔ̃tɑ̃pɔʁɛn], Contemporary City) was an unrealized utopian planned community intended to house three ...
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral - Paris's 12th-century ecclesiastical centrepiece on the Île de la Cité; The Père Lachaise Cemetery - a romantic cemetery. Sainte-Chapelle - a 13th-century Gothic palace chapel, also located on the Île de la Cité; Church of St Eustache - a 16th-century Gothic church in the district of Les Halles
Maisons-Alfort (French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ alfɔʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 8.4 km (5.2 mi) from the center of Paris . Maisons-Alfort is famous as the location of the National Veterinary School of Alfort .
Château de Maisons, southeast-facing garden front. The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte [ʃato də mɛzɔ̃ lafit]), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French Baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture.