Pruitt Igoe collapse series. From Wikipedia.org. Source U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
For whoever has learnt about the implosion of Pruitt Igoe, this post from strangeharvest.com will help to figure out what has become of the land. I´ve forgotten about it, and never thought what had become of this doomed place.
¨Pruitt–Igoe was a large urban housing project first occupied in 1954 and completed in 1956 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. Shortly after its completion, living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began a qualitative decline; by the late 1960s, the extreme poverty, crime, and segregation brought the complex a great deal of infamy as it was covered extensively by the international press. The complex was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center towers and the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport main terminal.
At 3 PM on March 16, 1972 – 16 years after construction was finished – the first of the complex's 33 buildings was demolished by the federal government.¨
Charles Jencks defines the event as the death of Modernism.
Now, it´s landscape with a few memories of the buildings.
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