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 ...

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 in ...

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, ...

IT HAS an almost mythical status in the canon of post-war British buildings. Clad in precast concrete panels, with apartments rising and descending from wide, raised decks (referred to as “streets in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Monocle’s man in Milan, Ed Stocker, decamps to ...

London’s V&A Museum has announced that they will be acquiring a section of Alison and Peter Smithson’s Brutalist housing development Robin Hood Gardens, sparing it from destruction as the complex is ...

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.

Flowers Gallery is delighted to announce The Elegy of Robin Hood Gardens, a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist David Hepher (b. 1935). Now in his 91st year, with much of his practice ...

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 ...