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 ...

Few buildings are as quintessentially British and Brutalist as Robin Hood Gardens, a London housing estate designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in the late 1960s. And now, remnants of the complex are ...

An example of the duo’s “Streets in the Sky” concept, the Robin Hood Gardens featured wide concrete balconies on every third level of each building, providing views into the central garden and create ...

Before demolition finished earlier this year, many architects – myself included – campaigned passionately for it to be listed as an important structure and saved, but it wasn’t enough. The decision, ...

When it was announced in 2012 that London's Robin Hood Gardens – Alison and Peter Smithson's world-famous Brutalist housing estate – was to be demolished, there was outrage among the architectural ...

Robin Hood Gardens was a progressive 1970s-era social housing project. Now, its fate is animating a debate over gentrification, museums, and cities. Robin Hood Gardens is–or was–a social housing ...

Sophie Monaghan-Coombs tells us how the new V&A East Storehouse is bringing the memory of brutalist London housing estate Robin Hood Gardens to life.

The “Streets in the Sky” invented by Alison and Peter Smithson at their simultaneously celebrated and notorious Robin Hood Gardens in East London are still partly inhabited. But the longer of the two ...

A detailed planning application for the redevelopment of Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in east London will be submitted to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets next month.

The nowdemolished council estate Robin Hood Gardens often occupies opposing positions within the architectural imagination Was Alison and Peter Smithsons 1972 brutalist contribution to the London ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Residents of the decaying Robin Hood Gardens estate, where grimy windows punctuate concrete, prison-like corridors, say they feel no connection with those living a short walk away ...