Precast concrete cast as neoclassical colossi holding up suburban social housing. Manuel Núñez Yanowsky was operating on pure theatrical nerve out in Guyancourt. It’s easy to laugh off this vintage of French banlieue postmodernism as grotesque pastiche until you actually look at the shuttering and how those panels were cast and keyed together. There was a staggering level of technical bravura put into what was essentially an ideological stage set. We’ve traded this particular brand of monumental delusion for polite timber-clad cubes with value-engineered reveals. Hard to argue we haven't lost a bit of spine along the way. https://www.designboom.com/architecture/caryatides-guyancourt-photo-essay-postmodernist-complex-suburban-paris-manuel-nunez-yanowsky-12-29-2025/