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The Lavirotte Building, an apartment building at 29 Avenue Rapp in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, was designed by the architect Jules Lavirotte and built between 1899 and 1901. The building is one of the best-known surviving examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Paris.
The Unité d'habitation (French pronunciation: [ynite dabitasjɔ̃], Housing Unit) is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. It formed the basis of several housing developments throughout Europe designed by Le Corbusier and sharing the same name.
Exterior stairs were another common element; the stairs would often climb up to a distinctive, full-length veranda or "gallery", on a home's façade. The roof over the veranda was normally part of the overall roof. French Colonial roofs were either a steep hipped roof, with a dormer or dormers, or a side-gabled roof.
To accommodate a new apartment for his daughter, Madame Adélaïde, Louis XV ordered the construction of rooms on the same floor as the petit appartement du roi. This new apartment occupied space that had been the petite galerie and the two salons as well as new space created by the suppression of the escalier des ambassadeurs (1760 plan #9).
1919 Monol Hou1934 Apartment block, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris. 1935 Bata works at Hellocourt, Lorraine.ses (no site agreed). 1919 Distillery, near Lyons. 1920 Citrohan House (1st version) (No site agreed). 1921 Garage, Lille. 1922 Citrohan House (2nd version) (no site agreed) (exhibition model built). 1922 La Roche- Jeanneret houses, Auteuil.
Create a Secret Garden. Milan is known for the beauty of its private spaces. On the balcony of this Milan apartment, designed and restored by Studio Peregalli, privacy is the perfect touchpoint ...
French Creole buildings borrow traditions from France, the Caribbean, and many other parts of the world such as Spanish, African, Native American, and other heritages. French Creole homes from the Colonial period were especially designed for the hot, wet climate of that region. Traditional French Creole homes had some or all of these features:
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