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Le Corbusier’s Plan To Overhaul Paris

Lost Masterpieces

Under Le Corbusier’s ‘Plan Voisin,’ the disease-plagued Marais would have been replaced by a gridded phalanx of 18 glass towers—both stunning and terrifying.

William O’Connor
William O’Connor 

Former Travel Editor

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William O’Connor

William O’Connor

Former Travel Editor

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