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Pavillon Suisse (Swiss Pavilion), Paris, France, 1932 designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

The pilotis have developed from thin columns to six massive reinforced concrete 'dog-bones' or 'thighs' with their characteristic figure-of-eight cross section to withstand winds. -- galinsky

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Unité d'habitation (Cité Radieuse), Marseille, France, 1952 designed by Le Corbusier

Most of Le Corbusier's 'five points of architecture' from the 1920s and the Villa Savoye are alive and well in the Unité: the strong pilotis creating circulation space beneath, the free facades now loud with a carefully orchestrated pattern of single- and double-height balconies generated from fifteen different types of apartment, and the roof terrace reclaiming the lost land beneath the building for recreation.  -- galinsky

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Hiroshima Peace Center and Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan, 1955 designed by Kenzo Tange

Inevitably suggesting Le Corbusier influences, the museum is supported on pillars, like Le Corbusier’s patented piloti. Furthermore, the building is articulated with reinforced concrete, a natural convention of Corbu. Tange combined Le Corbusier’s five points with elements drawing from Japanese traditions, such as the sun-screens and the modular arrangement of the facade.-- ArchDaily

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Sky House, Tokyo, Japan, 1958 designed by Kiyonori Kikutake

Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake’s Sky House (1958) remains an exemplary project that defines the Metabolist agenda but, more significantly, underscores the notion that a single-family dwelling can be ideologically recursive and strategic. -- ArchDaily

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Convent of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon, France, 1960 designed by Le Corbuiser

The more obvious of these in this specific project are the pilotis, or load-bearing columns, which line the inside walls and open the facade to long strip windows. The classic grass rooftops create an architectural promenade, relating back to the Villa Savoye, although the context of the convent is very different than of the residence.  -- ArchDaily

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Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1968 designed by Kallmann, McKinnell, & Knowles

Rather than basing their design on the material aesthetics, their goal was to accentuate the governmental buildings connection to the public realm.

Completed in 1968, the Brutalist style city hall bridges the public and private sectors of government through a gradient of reveal and exposure that allows the public to become integrated, either physically or visually, into the daily affairs of the governmental process. -- ArchDaily

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Residential Unit in the Gallaratese Quarter, Milan, Italy, 1973 designed by Aldo Rossi

The residential unit by Rossi consists basically of a large portico at ground level, and apartments opening onto a single-loaded exterior corridor at the upper levels. Exterior stairways are interpersed along the length of the portico to provide access to their corridor. -- The Harvard Architecture Review I, Spring 1980. P. 210-211

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Sakurai House, Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 2009 designed by Ken Yokogawa Architect & Associates

....I lifted the entire building and located the entrance at most natural approach possible. I used this position as the structural core and starting point for the overall design. The upper part above the pilotis supported by the RC is a hybrid structure constituting a polyhedral roof frame, made of wood and steel-frame truss. -- ArchDaily

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csv House, Lozoya, Spain, 2010 designed by Burgos & Garrido arquitectos

The project is installed horizontally on a concrete body recessed against the mountain, which contains small dressing rooms and an indoor pool. Also, the structure has two powerful pillars. Over this structure is built another large steel frame with a long overhanging bearing the house. -- ArchDaily

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Accommodation Block Of Sergeants, Sintra, Portugal, 2011 designed by Filipe Xavier Oliveira

The typology would have to be the one of a “gallery”, in search of a historical continuity, with values already proven. Thus, in the accommodation block of Sergeants, there are facts of the Portuguese architectural own culture, such as the arcade, which conveys dignity by its design while entering the building and is also a meeting space. -- ArchDaily

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House in Asamayama, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 2011 designed by Kidosaki Architects Studio

When open the large door to the living room, Mt. Asama and the foot of it spread in picture window frame formed by the deep and low-height eaves. This scenery is the best part of the view.  -- ArchDaily

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Valle de Egüés Town Hall, Egüés, Navarra, Spain, 2011 designed by Otxotorena Arquitectos

The geometrical structure of the three above ground floors is established in accordance with a sequential logic that relates them in height; it assigns a structure of ‘L’ to the ground floor, which finds its counterpoint in the reverse scheme, also in the shape of an ‘L’, which corresponds to the highest storey. The building, in short, it laid out according the superposition of the two ‘L’ structures inverted in certain meeting points where the main elements and facilities for vertical communication are located. -- ArchDaily