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La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle — Watchmaking Town Planning
Two Swiss Jura towns rebuilt from scratch after fires, their street grids deliberately oriented to maximise daylight for…
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La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Switzerland · 102
Maison Blanche (Villa Jeanneret-Perret, 1912), La Chaux-de-Fonds
White walls where pine-motif plasterwork used to be: at the top of the same lane as the Pouillerel…
Switzerland · 102
Villa Fallet (Style Sapin, 1906), La Chaux-de-Fonds
An eighteen-year-old drew the plans; a neighbourhood of pine-cone plasterwork was the result. It was Jeanneret’s first house…
Switzerland · 102
Villa Jacquemet (Style Sapin, 1907), La Chaux-de-Fonds
The second house in a three-villa sequence that Jeanneret built on a single lane: same steep roof, same…
Switzerland · 102
Villa Schwob (Villa Turque, 1916–1917), La Chaux-de-Fonds
Ochre brick, concrete, and a dome that reads as half-Ottoman from the street: Le Corbusier settled a score…
Switzerland · 102
Villa Stotzer (Style Sapin, 1908–1909), La Chaux-de-Fonds
The final villa of the Pouillerel trilogy: Jeanneret’s ornamental grammar had reached its most refined point, and within…
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