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By displaying a fragment of the demolished Robin Hood Gardens estate at the Venice Biennale, the Victoria and Albert Museum is bringing London’s housing crisis to the world stage.
Robin Hood Gardens, in east London, has been described as a defining example of brutalist architecture. Despite campaigning from architects such as the late Zaha Hadid and Sir Norman Foster ...
Robin Hood Gardens in east London looks like the archetype of a grim modernist estate. Set above the roaring mouth of the Blackwall Tunnel, and pallisaded with concrete fins, this stain-streaked ...
The Victoria and Albert Museum will conserve a chunk of the Robin Hood Gardens estate—a symbolic death knell for the ethos behind the city’s postwar public housing.
It was one of the most notable of all of London’s post-war housing estates, a groundbreaking scheme offering working-class people in the east end the chance to live in “streets in the sky.” But Robin ...
The Robin Hood Gardens public housing complex in East London has finally met the wrecking ball. After years of protests from locals, architects, and critics, local authorities at the Tower Hamlets ...
Robin Hood Gardens in east London was an experiment in communal living but less than 50 years later a slice of it is now a museum piece. Architect Sam Jacob tells The Big Issue what this says about ...
The fate of Robin Hood Gardens, a housing estate in Poplar, was sealed this week when Tower Hamlets council's Strategic Development Committee rubber-stamped its demolition. For all its Brutalist ...