... well, probably not, but you can. The
Hotel Le Corbusier
is situated in a residential area of Marseille, and looks pretty
interesting. Not luxurious, and I would issue a cement-overload alert
here, but it looks like there is a lot of diversity and individual
personality in the rooms, although the hotel itself looks to be
enormous, which makes sense, as it was conceived as a self-contained
village –
la Cité Radieuse, or radiant city.
From the website,
Sejours et Loisirs:

"
The Corbusier hotel opens its doors onto one man’s utopia become
reality: the Radiant City of Marseille by Corbusier, a vessel of
colours, a perfect parallelepiped perched on its strange pillars.
Neither the facades nor the roof covered with the most unusual works of
art have been left to chance, everything is the fruit of the 30-year
long imaginative creation of a man passionately interested in
architecture, art and humanity. The property, listed as a historical
building, is the archetype of a town. The apartments have been designed
to look like villas, the corridors like streets and a central
thoroughfare goes through the heart of the third level where the Hotel
and winter garden can also be found. The miniature town has its own
mini-swimming pool, open-air theatre, vast gymnasium, tennis court and a
cinema."

It would be fun to hunt down and
decipher the pictograms on plinths and surfaces, some worn enough to
resemble ancient hieroglyphs. Check out google images for more photos
– GF
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