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Centrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union

The Centrosoyuz (Tsentrosoyuz) building, designed by Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret, reached completion in the early 1930s as a large modern office in Moscow for the central union of cooperatives. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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The Centrosoyuz (Tsentrosoyuz) building, designed by Le Corbusier with Pierre Jeanneret, reached completion in the early 1930s as a large modern office in Moscow for the central union of cooperatives. He did not staff the Soviet organ. Corruption/opacity here is the institutional client: a state-cooperative machine in a terrorising decade. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

This is built; the Palace of Soviets is unbuilt. Swiss Pavilion is another 1930s public building in Paris, a different state. Later uses of the Moscow building are reception.

Why it matters

A completed building for a Soviet organ is an opacity path of modest-to-medium size. Medium confidence on completion date neighbourhood; the client’s nature is not in doubt. Later heritage of the building is not 1933.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He designed the building. Soviet clients and local execution altered and completed it. Complex built work in a police state.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactCentrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union
    2. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Political corruption index
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1933 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Le CorbusierEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently lists Centrosoyuz among realisations. Britannica independently notes the Moscow building in his interwar work. MoMA independently collects related drawings. No unique 1933 purge coefficient is attached to the façade.

Established: Centrosoyuz as his Moscow office building, early 1930s completion. Not established: a unique interior labour census. Conventional 1933. Not the unbuilt palace.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Centrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Centrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1933-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactCentrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union
  3. strengthensDriverInstitutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Centrosoyuz building in Moscow is completed to Le Corbusier’s design as a ministry-scale modern office for the Soviet cooperative union. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-centrosoyuz-moscow

https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-centrosoyuz-moscow

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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