Couvent de la Tourette

Total architectural delight

This is a place where you go to be saturated in architecture and it’s merits as a major work of the 20th century’s greatest architect hardly need to be repeated. Our welcome was exceptionally warm, th...

Awe inspiring

I visited La Tourette with a group of Architect friends on a trip to Lyon. We trcaught a train from Lyon Gorge du Loup to L’Abresele station for 10 euro return each. We went on a Sunday because that’s...

Go for Sunday tour—we didn’t.

This place is hard to get to, and involves a steep walk up from the strain station . It is the famous architect, Le Corbusier’s, last structure. However, it is externally a hulking concrete building ...

Horrible concrete block

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Probably one of the most horrible buildings I've ever seen. Aseptic, cold, a block of armed concrete without pulls or finishes, seems to be a work in construction. No sensation d...

A Attraction for Architects and No Architects.

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We're spending half a day of our stay in Lyon to visit the convent with some friends architect ...