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Built in the 1950s, the cubic structure was designed by Le Corbusier to house the coal boiler for his "Unité d'habitation of Briey" public housing project. The structure was decommissioned and abandoned when a new boiler room was built inside the apartment building years later.

Accessible from the kitchen, a lower-level patio is bordered by the lush garden.

The pergola-topped terrace overlooks the garden on two sides and offers a privacy wall along the other. The kitchen skylight is located in the corner.

The principal bedroom offers direct access to the rooftop terrace.

The renovated bathroom is shared between the bedrooms.

Upstairs, each of the two bedrooms offers ample natural light.

The sunlit living room benefits from an expansive row of windows along one wall.

The open-concept living/dining area is located next to the kitchen. An original central staircase leads up to the bedrooms.

Located in a rounded alcove, the compact kitchen features wraparound shelving and countertops.

Another view of the breakfast area shows the skylight above.

Le Corbusier, along with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, created six typologies for the residences, including the triplex “zigzag” design of the recently listed unit. Two of the zigzag structures were built—shown here in the lower-left corner of this schematic.

This two-story corner residence is one of approximately fifty units that Le Corbusier designed for Quartiers Modernes Frugès in Pessac, France.

Cité Frugès de Pessac

Detail east facade, UH, Marseille

The Appartement-Atelier was designed and built between 1931 and 1934 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Located on the top two floors of the Molitor building in Paris, the compact apartment served as Le Corbusier’s home and painting studio until he passed away in 1965.

The Weissenhofsiedlung (Weissenhof Estate)—an experimental housing development on the outskirts of Stuttgart—is home to this two-family structure, Houses 14 and 15. Designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1927, it's one of the earliest examples of the Five Points of a New Architecture.

Maisons Jaoul is pair of houses built for André Jaoul and his son Michel in the upscale Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. A departure from his white squares, the homes are among Le Corbusier's most important post-war structures and feature unpainted cast-concrete—"béton brut"—together with rugged brickwork.

Located in La Plata, Argentina, Maison Curutchet was built for an Argentinian surgeon. The house was designed to respond to the historical context of an existing structure to which it is attached—a first for the architect. Le Corbusier visited the site, and only communicated with Mr. Curutchet through an exchange of letters.