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Interesting remark: > Le Corbusier’s Pessac is now viewed as an architectural success. The picket fences and the pitched roofs and the garden gnomes are gone,

Interesting remark: > Le Corbusier’s Pessac is now viewed as an architectural success. The picket fences and the pitched roofs and the garden gnomes are gone, and his original vision is restored. I wonder if Le Corbusier himself would have approved of that. The very fact that his designs were so easily modified was, arguably, their strength. When he was told about the garden gnomes of Pessac, he replied, “You know, life is always right; it is the architect who is wrong.” Managers should remember that.

KarlKemp 5y ago
Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,+Frankreich/@44.7984012,-0.6482421,3a,75y,6.77h,100.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbq10G97uv2aza4yl9ujK5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0xd54d91a67fb3a7f:0x3b37b30fc18ab758!8m2!3d44.799!4d-0.6477?hl=de https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,... It's somewhat run-down, if not poor. But it doesn't strike me as being particularly terrible. It seems to have had quite a bit variety even from the start. Compare to what may have been the alternative, right across the train tracks: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,+Frankreich/@44.7984701,-0.6465358,3a,75y,121.54h,115.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sL6STDDUHbmuT-S8QsnOO4w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DL6STDDUHbmuT-S8QsnOO4w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D320.2786%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0xd54d91a67fb3a7f:0x3b37b30fc18ab758!8m2!3d44.799!4d-0.6477 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,...
- ghosty141 5y ago
  Like others have mentioned, it's not impressive if you look at it like something built in the 70s/80s but they are ~100 years old by now which makes it quite impressive in my opinion.

KarlKemp 5y ago

Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,+Frankreich/@44.7984012,-0.6482421,3a,75y,6.77h,100.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbq10G97uv2aza4yl9ujK5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0xd54d91a67fb3a7f:0x3b37b30fc18ab758!8m2!3d44.799!4d-0.6477?hl=de https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,... It's somewhat run-down, if not poor. But it doesn't strike me as being particularly terrible. It seems to have had quite a bit variety even from the start. Compare to what may have been the alternative, right across the train tracks: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,+Frankreich/@44.7984701,-0.6465358,3a,75y,121.54h,115.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sL6STDDUHbmuT-S8QsnOO4w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DL6STDDUHbmuT-S8QsnOO4w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D320.2786%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0xd54d91a67fb3a7f:0x3b37b30fc18ab758!8m2!3d44.799!4d-0.6477 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cité+Frugès,+33600+Pessac,...

ghosty141 5y ago
Like others have mentioned, it's not impressive if you look at it like something built in the 70s/80s but they are ~100 years old by now which makes it quite impressive in my opinion.