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1952 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Unité d'habitation image

Modernist style of residential housing

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Unité d'habitation

Paris, Ile-de-France, France · Exact work coordinates

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Modernist style of residential housing

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Comparison

Field	Unité d'habitation 1952 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Moriyama Teshima Architects 1958 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1952	1958
Place	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Representative site: Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Climate	18°C · 13.7h daylight · 5 km/h wind	3°C · 13.8h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Canadian War Museum
Focus	Housing	8 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Raymond Moriyama
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works Canadian War Museum Ontario Science Centre William G. Davis Building Toronto Reference Library
Typologies	housing	museum library house performance venue education campus building hospitality office
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass
Carbon signals	housing gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.