Public Housing / Tenements / Commie Blocks / Projects / Housing Estates

[WANCH]

I had a previous thread called "Danchis in your city" but I decide to make a clearer one. Anyway, do you have images of public housing in your city?

Paris


New York




Singapore


Chicago


Toronto


London

[eusebius]

In my country or region, I would refer to these as housing estates; technically speaking up-to-date while rather spatious and oftenly enough directly connected to both parks and shopping centers. This is some of the ultimate in 1950's urban planning:

[DnH]

I dont know what u would call these.. Commieblocks maybe.

Stockholm, anyhow..

[Leichestern]

Here are some flats in public housing estates here in singapore.








The Housing & Development Board (HDB) came up with a briliant idea to make rooftop gardens of garages by adding paths, plants, playgrounds, seats and so on. It really beautify's the place. Must ncier than concrte. Maximises land use too.

[WANCH]

Singapore has one of the best public housing schemes in the world. 80% of the country's population live in public housing. You can see the difference between housing estates in this city compared to the ones in the west especially public housing estates like the former Cabrini Green in Chicago.

Hong Kong housing estates

[tahk]

uhmmm... sorry but, why are apartment buildings so ugly in france? at least in the south you've nearly none, and the ones you see are simply horrible. I mean, it's a wonderful country, a really beautiful one, but your blocks are awful guys...

[JDRS]

Park Hill Flats in Sheffield (ugly buildings):

[TalB]

There are more housing projects in NYC as you go more uptown to the tip, and the outer boroughs have a number of them as well.

[WANCH]

Actually Hong Kong and Singapore have the most housing estates in the world! Even Seoul! Especially in Singapore where 80% of the entire population lives in public housing!

Housing projects in Paris are mostly in the outskirts such as Sarcelles or Vitry Sur Seine. The city center preserves it's historical architecture although there are a few modern buildings in it.

More housing estates

Catia in Caracas, Venezuela







Ballymun in Dublin, Ireland





Bijlmer in Amsterdam, Netherlands





Danchis in Tokyo, Japan

[SE9]

London

[Club_Dru]

Bijlmer in Amsterdam, Netherlands




since the Boeing 747 crash here in 1992, the local authorities have decided to demolish most of the flats and replace them for low-rise housing
source (disaster): http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijlmerramp

[Cymen]

Originally Posted by andrewsimons

Bijlmer in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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since the Boeing 747 crash here in 1992, the local authorities have decided to demolish most of the flats and replace them for low-rise housing
source (disaster): http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijlmerramp

The funny thing is the Bijlmer was actually not built as a pure social housing project, but mostly for the working / mid class. Initially renting prices were relatively high! Since the project was a failure, it became a social housing neighbourhood. I was being told most houses were not even meant for being rented, but for sale. (but nobody wanted to buy one)

This are pure social housing projects in Amsterdam:




Built by companies who wanted their workers to feel proud! (and thus work harder)

But even today Amsterdam does not fails in public housing:

2/3rd social housing

[WANCH]

London ones are also highrise but I would like to see images of The Aylesbury estate. I hear that's the largest in Europe!

Glasgow, Scotland





Seoul, Korea

[Tubeman]

Some more from London...

The Trellick Tower, Ladbroke Grove... the ugliest block on the planet?









Trellick's little sister, the Balfron Tower on the other side of London:



From the side both blocks almost disappear:



Some other random shots...

Brentford Towers, West London:



Winstanley Estate, Battersea:



Makes you realise how little-photographed London's Estates are, its very hard to get photos off google

[GNU]

Originally Posted by Tubeman

Some more from London...

The Trellick Tower, Ladbroke Grove... the ugliest block on the planet?

Oh dont bash the Trellik Tower.
When I first saw it and heard that it was a listed building I thought WTF?
But nowadays its one of my favourite buildings in London no doubt.
I love it!
People are actually paying a lot of money to rent an appartment there.
But maybe Im biased since my most favourite passiterie (The Lisboa) is just situated next to it!
Go there on a Saturday, get a cup of that great coffee they are making there and enjoy the view and the scene there,and Im sure youll fall in love with that building very soon.

[WANCH]

The Trellick Tower looks brutal!

More housing estates

Alamar, Havana Cuba

[TalB]

To start of the long list of housing projects in NYC, let's just start with Manhattan.

Southbridge Towers, Alfread E Smith Houses, and LaGuardia Houses


Einstien Bldgs


Chatham Green


Baruch Houses


Robert Fulton Houses


Alphabet City


Catle Village


Lillian Ward Houses


Polo Ground Houses


Manhattanville Houses


Waterside Plaza


Taino Towers


Martin Luther King, Jr Houses


Lennox Terrace


Marble Hill Houses

[asohn]

Originally Posted by TalB

Waterside Plaza

Waterside Plaza is NOT public housin. Far, far from it. Even though its ugly, the apartments there are very desirable and are definately not affordable for lower class people.

http://www.watersideplaza.com

[JivecitySTL]

The infamous Pruitt-Igoe project, St. Louis (demolished 1972):

[WANCH]

TalB, thanks for showing those images of NY housing projects! The city's projects have me alot of attention. I listen to alot of rap music and they mention the projects alot especially Nas.

I didn't know that St. Louis have medium rise housing projects constructed. Most US cities only have single storie projects such as the ones in Los Angeles or New Orleans.

Guess what, one of the architects of Pruitt-Igoe is Minoru Yamasaki who also designed the World Trade Center in New York. This was actually his first project.

http://www.predesign.org/Pruitt-Forum.html

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