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De Bel-Air à Babel

A lofty dream

Five towers, high rises and other skyscrapers built or planned, from 1930 to 1970, in Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux and Aminona (Crans-Montana). The five towers chosen for their representativeness, their aesthetic qualities and the formal beauty of their archival documents are the works of five architects who imagined the 21st century well before the advent of the year 2000: Jean Tschumi (Tour de Beaulieu), René Deléchat (Cité Moderne), Alphonse Laverrière (Tour Bel-Air), Hugo Buscaglia (Tour d'Ivoire) and André Gaillard (Aminona)

Whereas the towers were systematically decried during the 20th century, today they are the necessary components of a responsible town planning in search of sustainable solutions. 

The book presents drawings, plans, photographs and some magnificent drawings of Le Corbusier’s skyscraper project for the Marine district in Algiers. 

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150 pages
18 x 22
ISBN 978-2-940519-50-7
CHF 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 30.00

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