World Heritage Corb: a 1930s apartment building in Paris designed by French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, intended to afford residents a contemporary lifestyle, is among his projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List (+ slideshow).
The Immeuble Molitor apartment building he designed near the Porte Molitor, in Paris' 16th arrondissement, was an attempt to prove Le Corbusier's planning theories.

The architect qualified his four elements of urbanism ? sky, trees, steel and concrete ? as essential to a contemporary lifestyle.
He established these priorities at the fourth International Congress for Modern Architecture in Athens ? a series of events uniting vanguard Modern architects to discuss the up-and-coming International Style.
Completed in 1934, the eight-story residential building is bordered on two sides by traditional apartment-style dwellings.
It faces the Stade Jean-Bouin, a large sports stadium that opened in 1925 and was expanded in 2013.

To make use of the favourable views available on either side of the building, the architect conceived the facade "as a glass curtain placed in front of the concrete floors," according to the Fondation Le Corbusier.

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Panel-glazing and glass masonry blocks alternate along the front facade. To prevent overheating from the entirely translucent surface, the architect devised sun-shading element...