Marseilles - Unité d'Habitation (Cité Radieuse)

About 1.3km/1mi south of the Rond-Point, on the right side of the Boulevard Michelet, extends the Unité d'Habitation, also called the Cité Radieuse, a residential complex in the Marseilles area designed by Le Corbusier and intended to "show the way ahead". The huge rectangular construction, 165m/180yds long and 56m/184ft high, comprises on eight double storys 337 flats of 23 different types. There are communal rooms, shops (also the "Le Corbusier" hotel), a kindergarten, a theater etc., and on some floors "rues intérieures" complete the internal facilities. The "House", which is supported by 17 pairs of concrete stilts - these also contain the supply services - represents a whole town for some 1,600 inhabitants. The basic idea behind this