Pruitt–Igoe
Apartment complex
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The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex of 33 eleven-story high rises was designed in the... Wikipedia
Size: 57 acres
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki
Constructed: 1951–1955
Demolished: 1972–1976
Density: 50 units per acre (120/ha)
No. of blocks: 33