Jonathan Meades
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Jonathan Turner Meades is an English writer and film-maker. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty television films, mainly for the BBC. His most recent novel, Empty Wigs, w
Meades reading at the grave of Laurence Sterne, Coxwold, 2012
Unité d'habitation
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The Unité d'habitation is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. It formed the basis of several housing developme
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…mill near Bordeaux. Discovering that they found country life boring, they then moved to Marseille in around 2011, where they live in Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation apartment block. During his time at RADA, he became friends with the painter Duggie Fields, whose flatmate was the former Pink Floyd singer, songwriter…
East elevation Unité d'Habitation Marseille (La Cité Radieuse)
Roof terrace of La Cité Radieuse, Marseille
Roof terrace of the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille
Interior of La Cité Radieuse, Marseille