Robin Hood Gardens
Building Design
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Trio of architects named for Robin Hood Gardens work
6 June 2013
Metropolitan Workshop, Jestico & Whiles and Karakusevic Carson won Ojeu bid
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Deadline looms for Robin Hood Gardens
21 November 2012
Architects invited to enter for next two phases of project to replace Smithson-designed estate but risk wrath of boycotters
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Rotten Utopia: residents of Robin Hood Gardens on their love for the estate
12 November 2012
A group of students from St Martins has produced a short film on the Smithons’ soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens
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Robin Hood Gardens deserves better
2 November 2012
Aedas’s ill-defined and over-developed new designs lack the urban vision of the Smithsons
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Aedas reveals first phase of new Robin Hood Gardens
31 October 2012
Controversial £500m development forges ahead
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Robin Hood Gardens compulsory purchase plans approved
15 August 2012
Councillors back latest step in estate’s demolition and redevelopment
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Council approves plans to demolish Robin Hood Gardens
16 March 2012
Planning committee gives green light despite Cabe objections
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Cabe slams Robin Hood Garden plans
16 February 2012
Plans “lack clear logic” and will have “detrimental impact”, concludes design review panel
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Finch calls for energy audit of Robin Hood Gardens
23 January 2012
Design Council Cabe chair says embodied energy should be included
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Robin Hood Gardens poised for demolition
10 January 2012
Outline planning application includes plans to raze Smithson estate
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Robin Hood Gardens remodelled
28 January 2011
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has devised a scheme that could save east London flats Robin Hood Gardens from the bulldozers
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Residents take Robin Hood fight to court
10 December 2010
Residents at Robin Hood Gardens are gearing up to take legal action against Tower Hamlets council over claims they were not properly consulted on the £500 million demolition and rebuild scheme
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Council delays naming Robin Hood replacement
2 December 2010
The east London council planning to demolish the Robin Hood Gardens estate has said problems with the procurement process will mean the architects for its replacement will not now be named till next month.
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Wigglesworth looks at Robin Hood rescue
25 November 2010
The Twentieth Century Society has commissioned Sarah Wigglesworth Architects to explore ways of re-using Robin Hood Gardens in a last-ditch bid to save the flats.
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Designs to replace Robin Hood Gardens revealed
19 November 2010
Shortlisted architects condemned as council prepares to announce winning scheme
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More vie to redevelop Robin Hood Gardens
23 April 2010
More architects are circling the scheme to redevelop the large east London site that includes the Smithsons-designed Robin Hood Gardens. The latest practices to throw their hats into the ring include HTA, PRP, Mae and Karakusevic Carson.
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Council ‘running down’ Robin Hood Gardens
25 September 2009
A senior opposition councillor has accused Tower Hamlets Council of ignoring maintenance problems at Robin Hood Gardens because it wants residents to move out so it can demolish the estate
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Robin Hood Gardens faces £40m cash gap
3 July 2009
Number of proposed new homes almost halved owing to falling demand
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New Robin Hood Gardens residents survey challenges demolition
26 June 2009
Council and Homes & Communities Agency committed to bulldozing estate as Twentieth Century Society pledges new fight
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Robin Hood Gardens exhibition will keep up pressure to save estate
23 June 2009
The Twentieth Century Society has pledged to keep up efforts to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition with the launch of a new exhibition at the RIBA.
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Culture secretary rejects Robin Hood Gardens listing appeal
15 May 2009
Robin Hood Gardens has been dealt a huge blow after culture secretary Andy Burnham turned down an appeal from the Twentieth Century Society to list the estate, instead giving it immunity from listing for five years.
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Robin Hood Gardens: The videos for and against
20 April 2009
Watch two opposing videos on Robin Hood Gardens, one from English Heritage and one from architectural historian Dan Cruickshank.
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Review: The Architects Who Made London - The Smithsons
9 April 2009
Max Risselda’s lecture on Alison and Peter Smithson was competent and well focused, but offered few new insights.
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New York Times backs Robin Hood Gardens
19 March 2009
BD’s campaign to rescue Robin Hood Gardens has been picked up by the New York Times, which has published an article urging a “spirited renovation” of the east London estate.
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Dan Cruickshank attacks Tower Hamlets and English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens
9 March 2009
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate.
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Dan Cruickshank attacks English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens (video)
06 March 2009
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate
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English Heritage faces critics at Robin Hood Gardens debate (audio)
5 March 2009
At a debate on Robin Hood Gardens at Ecobuild yesterday English Heritage was outnumbered four-to-one by those in favour of listing the estate.
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Prasad makes final bid to save Robin Hood Gardens
5 February 2009
Sunand Prasad has joined the Twentieth Century Society in a final bid to convince the government to list Robin Hood Gardens.
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Council urges Follett to allow demolition of Robin Hood Gardens
23 January 2009
EH stands firm in opposing listing despite 20th Century Society report
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English Heritage on Robin Hood Gardens
22 January 2009
Read English Heritage's response to the case for the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, and let us know what you think.
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EH unchanged in opposing Robin Hood Gardens listing
19 January 2009
English Heritage has refused to alter its opposition to the proposed listing of Robin Hood Gardens.
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DCMS will look again at listing
05 September 2008
Possible errors in ruling on estate
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Government will review Robin Hood Gardens decision
1 September 2008
The government will review its decision not to list Robin Hood Gardens in a major boost for BD’s campaign to save the east London housing estate.
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Robinson attacks EH claims on liveability
8 August 2008
Housing expert hits out at argument that estate ‘fails as a place to live’
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Smithsons estate will go to appeal
11 July 2008
An appeal will be made against the government’s decision not to listthe 1970s Robin Hood Gardens, housing estate.
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Channel Four: Is RHG's problem that it's a sink estate? (video)
7 July 2008
A report on Channel Four news at the weekend, takes a look at the campaign to Save Robin Hood Gardens and asks whether the real answer is a fresh look at the problems of sink estates in general.
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Hodge refusal to list snubs profession
04 July 2008
Decision not to list estate leaves late 20th century buildings under threat
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Robin Hood Gardens will not be listed
1 July 2008
Robin Hood Gardens estate will not be listed, the government announced on Tuesday.
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Robin Hood Gardens competition: Entries round-up
27 June 2008
The response to the BD/AF competition for idea for the redevelopment of Robin Hood Gardens drew a phenomenal response from architects all around the globe.
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Ben Addy's design for Robin Hood Gardens in depth
27 June 2008
Ben Addy (Moxton Architects) took third place in the Robin Hood Gardens design competition with his light-touch approach to the Smithsons' masterplan. Explore Addy's design in more depth.
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Robin Hood Gardens design competition: The results
27 June 2008
The top entries in BD and the Architecture Foundation’s ideas competition for Robin Hood Gardens show that inspired refurbishment of the estate can give it a new vibrancy while reaching the required density levels.
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Zoran Radivojevic's design for Robin Hood Gardens in depth
27 June 2008
Zoran Radivojevic (Cazenove Architects) wowed the judges to take first place in the Robin Hood Gardens competition with his treatment of the buildings as giant carcasses. Explore Radivojevic's design in more depth.
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Bruce Newlands' design for Robin Hood Gardens in depth
26 June 2008
Bruce Newlands (Kraft Architecture) & Mike Hyatt Landscape Architects won second place in the Robin Hood Gardens design competition with his vision of an engineered timber skin. Explore Newlands' design in more depth.
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Sunand Prasad: Robin Hood reinvented social housing
26 June 2008
In an article in the Guardian on Thursday, RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit back at Simon Jenkins' condemnation of Robin Hood Gardens.
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Rogers: Mistake was to let Robin Hood Gardens become a sink estate
20 June 2008
In a letter published in the Guardian on Friday, Richard Rogers has argued that the real mistake in Robin Hood Gardens was not the design, but allowing it to become a sink estate.
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Guardian: Interesting buildings must be protected
16 June 2008
An editorial in the Guardian on Monday has given implicit support for the campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens.
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Robin Hood Gardens in the nationals
9 June 2008
The campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens has recently featured on the Times and Financial Times letters pages.
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Everyone’s talking about Robin Hood Gardens
30 May 2008
Since BD launched its campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens in February, the issues raised have been debated and discussed all around the world.
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Hadid goes to top in battle for estate
30 May 2008
Zaha Hadid has made an impassioned plea to the government to list Robin Hood Gardens, promising to write to prime minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown as well as architecture minister Margaret Hodge before its fate is decided.
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Ex heritage minister calls for RHG listing
23 May 2008
Margaret Hodge must reject advice from English Heritage and grant Robin Hood Gardens the grade II listing it deserves, MPs and former Labour heritage minister Alan Howarth have demanded.
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Erased from our memories
9 May 2008
The government wants to forget the optimism of sixites and seventies social housing ever existed
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English Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
8 May 2008
English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.
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This was the Smithsons’ vision for Robin Hood Gardens, what’s yours?
11 April 2008
BD and the Architecture Foundation release the brief for the competition to rethink Robin Hood Gardens
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BD campaign will influence minister's decision on Robin Hood Gardens
28 March 2008
The campaign to rescue Robin Hood Gardens from demolition will play a significant role in the Government’s decision over its listed status when the decision is made on the 30th April, BD has learned.
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Rogers walkabout at Robin Hood Gardens
28 March 2008
Richard Rogers has written to Tower Hamlets Council in support of BD’s campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens.
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BD contest paves the way for Robin Hood revival
28 March 2008
Architects are being challenged to create a new vision for Robin Hood Gardens in a design competition launched by BD and the Architecture Foundation this week.
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Now that’s what Margaret Hodge calls architecture
20 March 2008
The decision whether to list Robin Hood Gardens ultimately lies with the architecture minister, who took Liz Bury on a tour of buildings in her east London constituency
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EH delays Robin Hood Gardens decision following BD campaign
12 March 2008
English Heritage will delay making its recommendation on the future of Robin Hood Gardens thanks to the phenomenal response to BD's two-week-long campaign to have the Smithsons-designed estate listed.
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Fight this loopy legislation
7 March 2008
We need to resist the government’s misguided urge to dictate what sort of houses people want
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Prizewinners throw their weight behind Robin Hood Gardens campaign
4 March 2008
Gold medallists and Pritzker winners are among petition supporters
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Robin Hood Gardens and the state of post-war listing
29 February 2008
Listing post-war buildings has always been a point of contention, says Alan Powers, but in the case of Robin Hood Gardens there should be no argument
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‘It’s a great place to live, absolutely’
29 February 2008
Local residents give their views of what it’s like to live in Robin Hood Gardens, one of the 20th century’s great housing estates. Depressing? Not at all, they tell Rory Olcayto
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A demolition job on the truth
29 February 2008
The landlord’s consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens has been seriously flawed
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Estate in its infancy
29 February 2008
How Robin Hood Gardens looked when first completed in 1972
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Profession rallies to rescue Smithsons' Robin Hood Gardens
29 February 2008
NEWS: Extraordinary response to BD campaign as council seeks to ratify demolition ANALYSIS: "It's a great place to live" PLUS: Our petition, comment and archive photographs
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Profession rallies to save threatened housing estate
29 February 2008
Tower Hamlets Council confirms that it will seek to ratify demolition option next week
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Demolition would be a “real tragedy”, says Rogers
28 February 2008
Spurred into action by BD's campaign, Richard Rogers has written to culture secretary Andy Burnham calling Robin Hood Gardens one of the greatest modern buildings in Britain and protesting about its “appalling” neglect.
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To the rescue of Robin Hood
22 February 2008
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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Sign up to save Robin Hood Gardens now!
21 February 2008
For the next two weeks, Building Design will be collecting signatures in favour of listing Robin Hood Gardens before presenting our petition to English Heritage by March 7th.
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Only listing can save Robin Hood Gardens
21 February 2008
BD launches campaign, spearheaded by Simon Smithson, to save his parents' 1972 Robin Hood Gardens estate
