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Also Known As block of flats • apartment building • apartment block

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Unité d'Habitation, apartment house, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1946–52.
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Le Corbusier
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Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect
Church of Notre-Dame, Le Raincy, Fr., by Auguste and Gustave Perret, 1923, with stained glass by Maurice Denis
Auguste Perret
French architect
Robert Mallet-Stevens
French architect
Scharoun, Hans: Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall
Hans Scharoun
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Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
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French architect
Johannes Andreas Brinkman
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