Posts Tagged ‘RE-Block’

Re-Block: Lessons on Improving Quality of Life in European Block Real Estates

By today it is more or less clear that constructing large-scale housing estates was one of the dead-end pathways of urbanism 30-60 years ago. The architects of such estates believed “… in the role of architecture as a weapon of social reform … when everyone would live in cheap prefabricated flat-roofed multiple dwellings – heaven […]

By Ivan Tosics, on April 22nd, 2015 at 15:49

Block Renovation: a German-Lithuanian Exchange

The Lithuanian Government has made the energy-efficient refurbishment of existing real estate one of their top priorities. In the new financial period of 2014-2020, the plans include renovations on entire city blocks at once, moving towards a more holistic practice of the integrating renovation of the entire block, rather than simple one-off projects. It means […]

By Gabriela Kuštan, on April 15th, 2015 at 13:04

Interview With István Hunyadi, RE-BLOCK, Budapest

The 18th district of Budapest started to built up the RE-Block (REviving high-rise Blocks for cohesive and green neighborhoods) network based on the need to find new tools and solutions to give a boost to rehabilitate the “Havanna” high-rise block building estate, a deprived urban area situated at the outskirts of the 18th district of […]

By Mariann Majorné Venn, on February 25th, 2014 at 19:31