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.

A fragment of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate salvaged from the demolition site by London's V&A museum is to be transported to Italy and displayed at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale ...

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 announcement in 2012 that London's Robin Hood Gardens — Alison and Peter Smithson's world-famous Brutalist housing estate — was set to be demolished was, on the whole, met with outrage ...

Lovers of both social housing and 20th-century architecture have been fretting about the fate of East London’s Robin Hood Gardens for years. A public housing project and Brutalist icon completed ...

A museum is like an iceberg. Most of it is out of sight. Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new V&A East ...

Alison and Peter Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens was completed in Poplar, east London, in 1972. The estate comprises two concrete slab blocks set on either side of a garden featuring a mound in its ...

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.

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.