Johannesburg Ponte City Apartments

Interesting video and article about this skyscraper in Johannesburg.

This building was built for South-African ´whites´ but for different reasons it ended becoming a place of criminality. Recently some interventions have transformed it into a new and safer place and new occupants are going to live in there.

Image from dilemma-x.net
Image from dilemma-x.net

This kind of situation is when Social Sustainability becomes essential. How people live around buildings is important in terms of security, opportunities or equity.

Making better cities and buildings can contribute to improve not only neighbours but people´s life, and that is a responsibility, a responsibility that is not taught enough at schools or universities.

Image from geoarchitecture.wordpress.com/
Image from geoarchitecture.wordpress.com/

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