10th June ‘09: 'That's the building,' says Gentleman Steve. 'Look, no satellite dishes.' He grins knowledgeably. 'Or if it's not that one, it's somewhere else in Marseille.' He looks less eminent now, but his ramblings have been accurate thus far. 'No, I have it on good authority. It's definitely that one.' As it turns out, it isn't. We're looking for Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, nicknamed “House of the Crazy”, and it isn't opposite the stadium as first thought. Steve has got the right street though; a fifteen-minute walk brings us to a housing slab, raised above ground on sculpted legs. 'Ah, the iconic street in the sky,' he says. In 1947-52, to combat post-war overcrowding, a scheme to build upwards was introduced. To be honest, it’s an anticlimax. Unless you’re an architect, the building won’t send shivers
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