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Liam Wilkinson

Transformation of the Grand Parc buildings, Bordeaux

The transformation of 530 occupied social housing flats in three early-1960s blocks at the Cité du Grand Parc, Bordeaux, by adding winter gardens and balconies instead of demolishing them.

Case studySources & confidence: High confidence

Checked 8 October 2026 · AI-assisted review

Scope, dates, client, cost, occupation during works and rents.

What this check doesn’t establish

  • All three sources come from or reproduce the architects' account. No independent evaluation of residents' outcomes was read.
  • Completion is given as 2016 by the project sheet and AR, and as 2017 by Architect.

Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works

Examined in the essay as an example of improving post-war housing without displacing its residents. The essay returns to it in the discussion of green gentrification.

The project won the 2019 EU Mies van der Rohe Award, according to the Architect page. The architects received the 2021 Pritzker Prize. The essay's drawing shows a typical floor of buildings H and I.

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