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

Date: 1933

## The fact

The Centrosoyuz (Tsentrosoyuz) building, designed by [Le Corbusier](/people/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/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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

## What is established and what is not

Established: Centrosoyuz as his Moscow office building, early 1930s completion. Not established: a unique interior labour census. Conventional 1933. Not the unbuilt palace. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

The attached driver is [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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