Radiant city, Modern residential building in Rezé, France.
The Radiant City stands 52 meters tall with 294 apartments spread across 17 floors, featuring concrete construction and colored facade elements.
Le Corbusier designed this residential complex between 1953 and 1955 as part of France's post-World War II reconstruction program in Nantes region.
The building incorporates the Modulor design principles, creating internal streets on each floor to encourage social interactions among residents.
Three elevators serve the building's inhabitants, while a rooftop terrace houses a public nursery school at 52 meters above ground.
The structure contains France's tallest school and maintains its original mailbox system where residents collect mail at the end of their floor's corridor.
Location: Rezé
Architects: Le Corbusier
Architectural style: modern architecture
Floors above the ground: 18
Website: https://maisonradieuse.org
GPS coordinates: 47.18850,-1.56833
Latest update: June 3, 2025 15:46
Nantes features diverse settings for photography, from gardens to historical monuments. Passage Pommeraye, a 19th-century shopping gallery, displays carved staircases and glass roofs across three levels. Île de Versailles offers a Japanese garden with stone lanterns and bamboo groves, while the Jardin des Plantes houses over 10,000 plant species in its greenhouses and pathways. Château des Ducs de Bretagne showcases Renaissance towers, and Cours Cambronne lines neoclassical facades around a tree-lined square. Converted former industrial sites create unique photographic spaces. The Hangar à Bananes, a former warehouse on the Loire quays, now hosts restaurants and galleries. Les Machines de l'Île set their mechanical creations in the naval shipyard’s Nefs. Le Lieu Unique occupies the LU factory with its distinctive tower, and Jardin des Fonderies preserves metal structures from its industrial past. In Trentemoult, a fishing village with houses painted red, yellow, and blue, narrow alleys run along the Loire.
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Les Anneaux
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The Grand Elephant
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Hangar à bananes
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Jules Verne Museum
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Jardin extraordinaire
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Cemeteries in Nantes
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Planetarium of Nantes
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Parc des Oblates
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Cap 44 - Grands moulins de Loire
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Quai des Antilles
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Grue noire
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Saint-Anne's church
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Pont de Pornic
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Maison des Hommes et des Techniques
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Mur gallo-romain
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Le Chronographe
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