Le Corbusier's only Unité d'Habitation built outside France is in Berlin, Germany.
Known as the Unité d'Habitation of Berlin or “Typ Berlin,” the building was constructed in the Westend district near the Olympiastadion for the 1957 International Building Exhibition, or Interbau. It was completed in 1958 and adapted Le Corbusier's idea of a large residential block functioning as a self-contained vertical community.
The concept had been developed most famously in the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, completed in 1952. Le Corbusier envisioned apartments, internal streets, shared services, and communal rooftop facilities within one elevated concrete structure. The Berlin project retained the distinctive modular proportions of his Modulor system, but local authorities altered several elements of the original design.
The building is sometimes called Corbusierhaus, which can cause confusion with other Le Corbusier works in Germany. Berlin is the key distinction: his other realized Unités d'Habitation were built in French locations including Marseille, Nantes-Rezé, Briey, and Firminy. The Berlin building is also an important example of postwar Brutalist architecture.