Cité du Pinson Nouvelle à Raismes

Built in several phases from 1947 to 1956 by the Valenciennes Group, the city is a vast modern city. It is structured according to a curved road which is aligned with that of the old Pinson city and which also plays on the unevenness. The architectural style of the dwellings is sober and without ornamentation: gable roofs, red-orange brick walls, horizontal windows and concrete frames. The new Pinson city extends the urban landscape of the old Pinson city. Both illustrate the two phases of intensification of mining activity corresponding to the interwar period and the 1950s.