The city of Nantes has announced plans to convert a 19th-century prison into an urban village with 160 new homes, a theatre and a nursery, as well as a collection of pocket-parks, allotments and terrace gardens. Architec…
Ricardo Bofill’s utopian vision for social living found form in the cubist heights and halls of Walden 7. Monocle discovers a community-minded building that turned science fiction into harmonious fact.