Aillaud Towers

About

Utopian social housing designed by Émile Aillaud in the 1970s, also known as Tours Aillaud.

Why go

• The goal was simple — to make everyday life feel less harsh
• Designed to humanize large-scale housing through variation, form, and individuality
• Believed that social housing should be poetic, playful, and human

Must try

• Playground with the giant snake
• Fragments of the original mosaics

Pro tips

• Pilot tower for the restoration

Good to know

• On tours aillaud alone, don't go - i was almost beaten up twice

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Rating

3.5 / 5 (160 reviews)

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