Centre Le Corbusier Zürich CH -
The Centre Le Corbusier or Heidi Weber Museum is an art museum dedicated to the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. In 1960, Heidi Weber had the vision to establish a museum designed by Le Corbusier. This building should exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by the architect himself. The building is located on the shore of the Lake Zürich nearby Zürichhorn in the Seefeld quarter. It is the last building designed by Le Corbusier marking a radical change of his achievement of using concrete and stone, framed in steel and glass, in the 1960s created as a signpost for the future. Le Corbusier made intensive use of prefabricated steel elements combined with multi-coloured enameled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he designed a 'free-floating' roof to keep the house protected from the rain and the sun. In 1960 Le Corbusier was mandated by Heidi Weber, a Swiss art collector and patron, to conceive a public exhibition building. One year later, the first drawings for a building to be constructed in concrete were presented, in 1962 the concept was changed to a steel building. Two years later the construction was started. In 1965 Le Corbusier died, and on July 15, 1967, the Centre Le Corbusier was officially inaugurated.

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