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Le Corbusier is one of my design heros (even though I know it is predictable). His work and design ethos has stayed with us and continues to inspire and be instrumental in many designs and creative solutions today (you only have to look at my next post on AFGH's work). Looking through his work it's hard to believe that his great buildings date back almost a hundred years yet still look as contemporary today as they did then. The Millowners' Association Building (top five pics) in India designed and built in the early fifties is in a style that is still used time and time again: bold use of colour juxtaposed against raw concrete.

The Chapel of Notre Dame-du-Haut (1950-55) is a dramatic and bold design. It looks like a piece of sculpture that plays with scale depending from where you view the building. The way he has used light to enter the interior adds contrast to the white walls and concrete with further contrast created with the coloured windows.
In some ways it is like many architects haven't moved on from his style apart from in innovation of materials and building techniques and it is clear why.

Photos taken from Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century