Housing

Chapter 1

Sydney: the Sirius Building

This brutalist apartment complex sits near the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was designed in the late 1970s to accommodate working-class families who were displaced by gentrification in Sydney’s oldest neighbourhood but over the past year its future has become uncertain.

Chapter 2

Singapore: public housing

This is one of the bedrocks upon which the nation’s success has been built. Back in 1965 when it became independent the government decided that if Singapore was to become a modern nation it had to change.

Chapter 3

UK: the council estate

Defined by a series of Housing Acts, the UK’s council estates were initially built to serve as a home to the working classes and as part of a clearing programme of the country’s slums. Later, in the wake of the First World War, they were the proud home of returned heroes.

Chapter 4

Helsinki: Hitas

Helsinki has been making an effort to try and offer affordable apartments for its residents – despite the drastically soaring accommodation prices.