Author Archives: Magda Maaoui

Social contract: Parisian social housing

By Magda Maaoui 30 June 2022 Housing

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Provision of social housing in Grand Paris is a very mixed picture, yet some exemplary architects and politicians are spearheading a change of direction

Outrage: the disgrace of social housing provision in England

10 April 2018 By Gillian Darley

Governments have cynically abandoned the idea of social housing for rural communities

Pride amid prejudice: Navez social housing, Brussels, by MSA and V+

3 September 2018 By Manon Mollard

Schaerbeek’s elegant and striking watchtower by MSA and V+ proves that the design…

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Social housing, Formentera, Spain, by the Instituto Balear de la Vivienda

18 August 2019 By Rafael Gómez-Moriana

A prototype of 14 social housing units on the island of Formentera…

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From the jaws of disaster: social housing solutions in Mexico

21 August 2019 By Juan Carlos Cano

The devastation wrought by powerful earthquakes in Mexico in 1985 and 2017…

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Communal luxury: Social housing, Zürich, Switzerland by Lütjens Padmanabhan

13 September 2019 By Eleanor Beaumont

Spacious, well-designed and affordable, Swiss housing like Lütjens Padmanabhan’s apartment building in Zürich is…

Social housing in Mallorca, Spain by IBAVI

11 April 2022 By Rafael Gómez-Moriana

IBAVI’s latest experiment in ecologically sustainable social housing is constructed from load‑bearing…

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