Stephen Teeple Shows That Social Housing Can Be Green and Gorgeous
All images credit Shai Gil These days, people don’t build a lot of social housing, and when they do it is usually, as architectural critic John Bentley Mays noted, “architecturally dull and oppressive places, like jails, meant to encourage tenants to move on as quickly as possible”. Three years ago TreeHugger covered the design of Stephen Teeple’s 60 Richmond Street Coop in Toronto and thought it was different; Mark Guslits, then head of the Toronto Community Housing Corp, said “We happen… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Stephen Teeple Shows That Social Housing Can Be Green and Gorgeous
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