It has approximately 3, housing units, including pavilions, as well as numerous facilities theater, schools, shower-baths, residence for the elderly, housing for singles, places of worship and shops. Office of Affordable Housing or HBM of the Seine department , headed by the mayor of the industrial city of Suresnes Henri Sellier , decided to build an architectural ensemble to accommodate the city's 8, to 10, inhabitants, many of whom were workers in the city's numerous factories.
The project provided for the coexistence of four-storey apartment buildings and individual pavilions. Alexandre Maistrasse was in charge of the works, assisted by Julien Quoniam from The first stone was laid in There are several categories of accommodation in relation to the number of rooms and amenities , the rent of which varies. He also decided to give the names of plants and flowers for certain streets, to keep the historical name of La Fouilleuse transl.
The Excavator as well as that of the crossroads of Croix-du-Roy transl. King's Cross , thus respecting the heritage of Suresnes. In , while the dwellings were not all equipped with a bathroom, collective shower-baths were built in the first residential islet. Before its rehabilitation between and , it still had admissions per week.
The building is now converted into a Center for Assistance through Work, a medico-social establishment for the professional integration of disabled people. An apartment located on avenue Gustave-Stresemann houses the Israelite place of worship.
In , the Protestant temple of Suresnes in avenue d'Estournelles de Constant was built in stone, replacing a wooden hut built in As of , the city was the largest group of social housing in the commune of Suresnes more than A neighborhood center, the Sorbiers, was created in the former child hygiene center. Its yellow brick architecture is embellished with ironwork, ceramics and magnificent mosaics on the facade, including a monumental clock face. It accommodates around nursery school and primary school students in 14 single-sex classes.
