Reflections: Ronchamp Chapel

2025-12-02T15:04:15+00:00

John Pardey on how Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel marked a revolutionary departure from his machine-age classicism — a sculptural, light-filled sanctuary where curved walls, hooded towers and a hovering roof reimagined the possibilities of modern sacred architecture.

Reflections: Ronchamp Chapel2025-12-02T15:04:15+00:00

Still standing: Centrosoyuz Building, 1933

2023-12-21T15:33:30+00:00

Designed for a street plan that was never realised and an occupant that ceased to exist, Centrosoyuz is a symbol of a dysfunctional state and Le Corbusier’s thwarted ambitions to become the standard-bearer for modernism in the USSR, writes Ian Volner.

Still standing: Centrosoyuz Building, 19332023-12-21T15:33:30+00:00
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