Archinect - News 2013-06-19T05:01:04-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/37585350/corbu-s-marseille-s-cit-radieuse-damaged-by-fire Corbu's Marseille's Cité Radieuse damaged by fire Archinect 2012-02-10T11:22:00-05:00 >2012-02-10T15:26:59-05:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/71/719ht8ozxp4j74j5.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>One of France's most important landmarks of modernist architecture, La Cit&eacute; Radieuse housing estate in Marseille, built by the architect Le Corbusier, has been damaged by fire. Fire services fought for over 12 hours to put out a blaze that began on Thursday afternoon in a first floor flat in the nine-storey concrete complex which is protected by special heritage status in France.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>