Buildings

Corbusier’s lost gameplan for Iraq

By Ellis Woodman, Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman2008-10-16T00:00:00

The main stadium is supported on a series of in-situ concrete “voiles”.

Baghdad was once the scene of an ambitious modernist plan with Le Corbusier’s unbuilt sports complex at its heart. At last its details can be savoured, reports Ellis Woodman

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