The Berlin plan manifests a distribution of many of Le Corbusier's previous building and urban designs, both built and unbuilt, and, moreover, the placements throughout the plan appear to be done with "contextual, associational, prototypical, typological, symbological and iconographical considerations."*
The Palace of Assembly (Parliament, 1956) of Chandigarh, India is placed adjacent the Reichstag of Berlin.
The round residential towers to the north have their prototypes in the Unités d'habitation projects of Strasbourg (1951) and Meaux (1957).
The Y-shaped hi-rise towers throughout the east section of the plan have their prototypes first in the Plan Macia (Bacelona, 1932) and the Le plan de Paris 37 (Paris, 1936).
What looks like a civic auditorium across from the Gendarnmarkt Platz has its prototypes in the Palais des Soviets (Moscow: 1931) and the Urbanisation de la Ville de Stockholm (Stockholm: 1933). And the oddly shaped building south of the auditorium evokes the Philips Pavilion (Brussels, 1958).
