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..., the Brutalist pioneers later responsible for the partially demolished Robin Hood Gardens council estate in Poplar....
...Cross Piccadilly and head down St James’s Street to Peter and Alison Smithson’s supremely elegant Economist buildings and plaza (1962-4) (where you might want to try Sake no Hana for an excellent Japanese...
...Much has been written, from a social as well as an architectural view, about the loss of landmark social housing complexes such as Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens in east London or Thamesmead...
...Long-term partner Robin Nicholson describes the sketched critical sessions as “drawn combat”, with Cullinan the fiercest scribbler....
...Robin Hood Gardens, Do Ho Suh Described by its architects Alison and Peter Smithson as “a new mode of urban organisation”, Robin Hood Gardens was a residential estate built in the late 1960s and an important...
...The Smithson investment trust was pitched as the “son of” Fundsmith Equity and raised £822.5m in its initial public offering on Wednesday. Read more on FT.com...
...It was announced earlier this month that the Victoria and Albert Museum had acquired a fragment of the Smithsons’ biggest built project, the 3.7-acre Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in Blackwall, east...
...The Smithsons hoped that Robin Hood Gardens would be a “demonstration of a more enjoyable way of living”....
...The estate was built in the late 1960s to the design of Alison and Peter Smithson, then probably Britain’s most internationally admired avant-garde architects, whose work included the Economist Building...
...Nearby, at the Pavilion of Applied Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exploration of Robin Hood Gardens, the recently demolished London housing estate designed by the avant-garde Smithsons in 1972, centres...
...At the same time, the bulldozers have just moved into Robin Hood Gardens, to the east of the City in Blackwall, a vast and surprisingly green council estate designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, arguably...
...Alison and Peter Smithson’s Economist plaza is a settled part of establishment St James’s, although their Robin Hood Gardens housing in the East End idiotically is being demolished....
...Just as the Smithsons’ Robin Hood Gardens in east London with its dramatic walkways is being demolished, the architecture they pioneered is in fashion....
...Many of these monuments remain under threat — Peter and Alison Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in London is due for demolition — just as they become fashionable again....
...Just as this supremely successful modernist masterpiece (protected at grade II* status) is being sold to allow the Economist to buy back its shares, the Smithsons’ other London landmark, Robin Hood Gardens...
...British architect Peter Smithson (whose vast, brutalist Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in east London is about to be demolished) said of the house that it was “architecture as a direct result of a way...
...by Peter and Alison Smithson in a 1960s Utopian ideal that has failed, Brennan says, within the current “ideological system of growth driven by capital and profit”....
...More serious is the loss of 1960s social housing, from the Heygate Estate to Robin Hood Gardens (the latter designed by London’s avant-garde Sixties architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, architects of the...
...Although the most famous supporter of brutalism was the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier, it was actually named by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson, who designed Robin Hood Gardens, in Poplar...
...Robin Day was responsible for the cheap, tough and stylish Polyprop chair that sums up everything that was optimistic about Britain in the 1960s....
...The enormous social housing development of Robin Hood Gardens, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson – arguably the only British architects to make a significant intellectual contribution to Modernism –...
...Robin Hood Gardens will be mourned, but by historians and architects, by artists and psychogeographers, not by the people who lived there....
...She connected with a new generation in the New York art world, painting such luminaries as Geoffrey Hendricks, Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol....
...By the early 1970s, as subsequent “streets in the air” such as Manchester’s Hulme Crescents and the Smithsons’ own Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar were completed, it was clear that deck-access developments...
...estate in east London designed by Alison and Peter Smithson – among the most influential British architects of the 20th century – will see the destruction of a landmark of modern architecture....
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