luxury listed house for sale Metz, France

Meeting between modernist architecture and the Lorraine horizon, an old aerodrome clubhouse listed as a historic monument, signed by Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé. Approaching the aerodrome, at the heart of a 3,000 m² grassy plot, a building imagined by Le Corbusier in the 1950s appears. Former clubhouse of the aerodrome where it was built, it stands out from the traditional buildings of the region with its facades, which blend a light-toned plaster masonry and large glazed joinery, highlighted by bright red framing. Natural light fills the interior spaces, revealing the lines of the architecture and opening views to clear perspectives of 180°. The building was co-signed by Le Corbusier – a major architect and urban planner of the modernist movement, whose work is based on the pursuit of right proportions and clarity of volumes – and the Lorraine designer and metalworker Jean Prouvé. The latter was noted for his works combining steel and aluminum with a particular accuracy of assembly, which gives the construction here at stake a functional elegance. The roof, an assembly of prefabricated aluminum elements, is formed of two shells back to back placed on a central trough; a silhouette that evokes two airplane wings ready to take off and gives the whole a distinctive architectural identity where technical precision dialogues with the aeronautical imagination. The building underwent rehabilitation in the early 2010s, carried out based on Le Corbusier's original plans in order to restore its stylistic coherence. The building is listed as a historical monument for its facades, roofs, load-bearing structures, and chimneys.This description has been automatically translated from French.