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I with many others am a completel sob to buildings with good quality concrete durability of iconic status. Watched the videos and on balance believe it is right due to narrow staircases and windswept balconies and lack of maintenance not to list this scheme. However the whole scheme still has a great deal going for it, the internal garden space not the least. Actually the scheme works against the odds which in the currently climate of being seen to do good is not enough to save it. The hardest factor to accept in all of this is not mentioned in in the EH video - is that the replacement scheme will build over the garden area exposing everyone to the heavy traffic noise, without any respite whatever. The fact would seem that EH/housing authorities need the extra space to build many more homes, and as Robin Hood gardens is clearly borderline (to above comment this is where the line is drawn, no need to drag C into it) the decision seems to have fallen to rebuild. Sad though this may be. If the rebuild could incorporate some of the good features of this design into the new one, then perhaps they might rekindle some important architectural support. If we want bring C into it as boringly above: it is strange to give acres of greenery to people who really don't depend on it in the Barracks, with no apparent windows in totally inward looking schemes appearing completely unintegrated into the society fabric - and then on the other hand to remove the very precious bit of greenery to a group of residents who really do depend on this factor to bring some liveable equilibrium to living spaces, and do not have the chance to decamp to the country every weekend.