Pavillon Le Corbusier

Geschichte

The Pavillon Le Corbusier is a Swiss art museum in Zürich-Seefeld at Zürichhorn dedicated to the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. In 1960 Heidi Weber had the vision to establish a museum designed by Le Corbusier – this building should exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by the architect himself in the then Centre Le Corbusier or Heidi Weber Museum. In April 2014 the building and museum went over to the city of Zürich, and was renamed in May 2016.LocationThe building is located on the Zürichsee lake shore nearby Zürichhorn in the Seefeld quarter. It can be reached by foot (20 minutes from Bellevueplatz–Sechseläutenplatz) or by public transportation: Trams 2 and 4 and bus line 33 to stops Höschgasse or Fröhlichstrasse, or bus lines 912 and 916 from Bellevue to Chinagarten, or by the Limmat boats operated by the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG) towards Zürichhorn.Centre Le Corbusier buildingIt is the last building designed by Le Corbusier marking a radical change of his achievement of using concrete and stone, framed in steel and glass, in the 1960s created as a signpost for the future. Le Corbusier made intensive use of prefabricated steel elements combined with multi-coloured enamelled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he designed a 'free-floating' roof to keep the house protected from the rain and the sun.

"Der Pavillon Le Corbusier am Zürichsee gilt als architektonisches Juwel. Das Gebäude wurde von Heidi Weber initiiert, von ihr bei Le Corbusier in Auftrag gegeben und unter ihrer Bauherrschaft 1967 vollendet. Es ist er der letzte Bau des bedeutenden Architekten und sein einziges Gebäude aus Stahl und Glas. Nach umfassender Renovation erstrahlt er in neuem Glanz und bietet eine einmalige «promenade architecturale» über mehrere Geschosse. Seit 2019 wird der Pavillon durch das Museum für Gestaltung Zürich im Auftrag der Stadt Zürich als öffentliches Museum geführt."