Tourist attraction
Les Schtroumpfs
Curved, mosaic-clad social housing where builders abandoned every straight line and spirit level.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Les Schtroumpfs in Geneva returns to nineteen eighty-two, when masons building city-subsidized apartments on Rue Louis-Favre were told to set aside the tools of ordinary construction. You'll hear how architects Robert Frei, Christian Hunziker and Georges Berthoud turned a budget housing project into something the neighborhood had never agreed to build straight, and what locals ended up calling it. Best heard standing back from the four buildings on Rue Louis-Favre, tracing their curves from top to bottom.
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