“You're lucky it's not raining today.
When it rains, we walk in the water.
» Usah Baggonauth has lived in Longs-Sillons in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) for thirteen years, but “the problems started about five years ago”, she sighs as she crosses the hall.
The smell of humidity is overwhelming in the stairwell where the plaster forms blisters on the walls.
The Longs-Sillons city, a concrete labyrinth with around a hundred social housing units, was delivered in 1986 by the internationally renowned architect Iwona Buczkowska, decorated with numerous prestigious awards.
Although everyone agrees that the complex is part of the “Ivryan architectural flagship”, this has not stopped it from aging and requiring rehabilitation work approximately twenty-five years after its inauguration.
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