Sterling Ruby showcases two landmark works that touch on materiality; The exhibition is on view through September 28; Le ...

1952, The Radiant City of Marseille receives its first occupants, eighty civil servants and compensated from war, coming from the four corners of France. Some are led by the promise of Le ...

Le Corbusier tried with his radiant city, but be warned, Le Corbusier’s vertical city with its skyscraper tower blocks of pre-stressed concrete must be man’s worst attempt at the soulless ...

His dystopian 1999 novel, Bright Moonlight Plan, followed an architect’s futile struggle to build an ideal new town, taking inspiration from Le Corbusier’s tyrannical Radiant City plan (which ...

Le Corbusier's concept of the Radiant City, for instance, shares parallels with transit-oriented developments in cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Taipei.

First it was couture house Chanel putting Marseille on the fashion map when it brought a major summer show to the city’s Radiant City Art Centre. Then one of its neighborhoods was voted the ...

It has stunning historical architecture — both dating from the Byzantine period and modernist examples like a post-war residence (now a hotel and museum) designed by architect Le Corbusier.

Despite being a city in Provence, this is not a rural idyll of the kind the region is known for — and it’s riotously more exciting for it. ‘City of 100 neighborhoods’ ...

Attached to the outmoded ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, they are creating a future wilderness of standardized, monotonous never-never lands.

The Hong Kong setting couldn’t be more different from the Marseille iteration of the show, which was at the Cité Radieuse (Radiant City), a housing complex designed by legendary architect Le ...

I believe that planning is putting Authority’s back to the wall.” At last week’s lecture Architect Le Corbusier tried to explain his Radiant City all over again.