Unité d'Habitation, Marseille
Eighteen floors on pilotis with a shopping street halfway up — the block that convinced everyone else to try.
Photo: Anapuig, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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megastructures
Cities in a single building.
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Barbican Estate
Podium gardens, a lake, three towers named for poets. A private city that took London thirty years to soften toward.
Photo: Daniel Case, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Geisel Library, San Diego
Pure structural theater: the concrete arms are doing exactly what they look like they're doing.
Photo: Ben Lunsford, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Habitat 67, Montréal
354 prefabricated boxes craned into a hillside village — the expo demonstration that became permanent housing because people refused to stop living in it.
Photo: Marc-André Desrosiers (Wikipedia Takes Montreal participant), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).