1952 · Marseille, France

Unité d'Habitation

Le Corbusier

The original "vertical garden city" — 337 apartments + a hotel, shops and a rooftop kindergarten in a single slab.

• "Béton brut" raw concrete gave the word "brutalism" its name
• Two-storey apartments interlocking through a central corridor
• Rooftop has a running track, gym, pool and ventilation stack-as-sculpture