Immeuble Molitor, Modernist residential building in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Immeuble Molitor is an eight-story residential building with modern architecture on the border between Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt. The structure features glass facades and concrete columns that support the entire framework.
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed the building between July and October 1931, and it was completed in early 1934. The developers Marc Kouznetzoff and Guy Noble had not secured full financing and asked the architects to find buyers within fifteen days. Construction began in February 1932, stalled for months, and resumed in October 1933. The Société Immobilière de Paris Parc des Princes went bankrupt in 1935, leading to a decade of legal proceedings over Le Corbusier's ownership, recognized in 1949.
This building represents modernism through open floor plans and large glass surfaces that were completely new at the time. Visitors see how Le Corbusier advocated for bright, airy spaces.
Le Corbusier's seventh- and eighth-floor apartment and atelier, owned by the Fondation Le Corbusier, can be visited by appointment; they were closed for renovation from September 2016 to May 2018. The lift only serves up to the sixth floor, so the duplex is reached by stairs. The main entrance is at 24 rue Nungesser-et-Coli, on the Paris side of the building.
The top two floors, reached by stairs from the sixth level since the lift stops there, cover 240 m². Le Corbusier arranged the rooms without corridors and with as few doors as possible, and painted the walls in pure primary colours. In his painting studio, a wall of stone and exposed rough brick contrasts with the concrete and glass elsewhere.
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