News Update Apr 2008:
Minister's decision re listing on delayed until after 1 May 2008

scanned sepia photos from 1996 by isabelle lomholt, apologies for the low quality:



Date built: 1967/68 - 72
Architects: Alison & Peter Smithson, popularly known as The Smithsons

'Save Robin Hood Gardens' Competition sponsored by BD Magazine
Building Design campaign to list this Modernist housing estate, Feb-Mar 2008



Robin Hood Gardens Competition - Shortlisted Entry, 23 Jun 2008



Kraft Architecture working with Mike Hyatt Landscape Architects



Description of The Smithsons' controversial blocks:
Unlike the public housing on the other side of London - at Roehampton - this Modernist architecture wasn't formed from floating Corbusian slab blocks or elegant point blocks but long sinewy legs enclosing a massive and sterile piece of grass.



Comparisons:
The now-demolished Crescent blocks in Hulme, Manchester - though different in geometry - share the same external deck access with acres of grass and mounds between 'legs' of the block; indeed many public housing blocks across the UK share the deck access concept but tend to be copies. Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation does not really bear comparison as the access is mostly internal and the climate anyway is so different.

Robin Hood Gardens London : The Smithsons

London Architects

Redevelopment proposals
2007
Horden Cherry Lee

London Architecture

Buildings near by inlcude the Balfron Tower



Contemporary Architects

Robin Hood Gardens Redevelopment proposals - architect : Horden Cherry Lee

Alison & Peter Smithson building - photos © isabelle lomholt

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

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