La Tourette (Marseille)

La Tourette is a housing complex in Marseille, France.

[1] It is located at the Old Port of Marseille and was constructed in 1946–1953 [2] following designs by the French architect and urban planner Fernand Pouillon.

[3] La Tourette and Vieux-Port developments are examples of modern massive-precut stone construction, one of the recent methods in stone construction.

The architect Pouillon believed that "The more modest the housing, the more monumental the architecture should be.".

[6] The construction process at La Tourette was used by Pouillon to support his claim that he could "build 200 dwellings in 200 days within a budget of 200 million francs.".

Marseille's Vieux Port and buildings by Pouillon
The first modern load-bearing stone skyscraper, 2 Rue Saint-Laurent, a 16-storey apartment building in La Tourette (Marseille) , designed by Fernand Pouillon