All Robin Hood Gardens articles – Page 4
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OpinionErased from our memories
The government wants to forget the optimism of sixites and seventies social housing ever existed
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NewsEnglish Heritage fails to back Robin Hood Gardens
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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NewsThis was the Smithsons’ vision for Robin Hood Gardens, what’s yours?
BD and the Architecture Foundation release the brief for the competition to rethink Robin Hood Gardens
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NewsBD campaign will influence minister's decision on Robin Hood Gardens
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. Responding to Richard Rogers’ letter to culture secretary Andy Burnham - which expressed the importance of ...
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NewsRogers walkabout at Robin Hood Gardens
Richard Rogers has written to Tower Hamlets Council in support of BD’s campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens.
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NewsBD contest paves the way for Robin Hood revival
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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AnalysisNow that’s what Margaret Hodge calls architecture
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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NewsEH delays Robin Hood Gardens decision following BD campaign
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.BD editor Amanda Baillieu handed the petition, containing more than 1,000 signatures, to English Heritage director of planning and development Steve Bee ...
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OpinionFight this loopy legislation
We need to resist the government’s misguided urge to dictate what sort of houses people want
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NewsPrizewinners throw their weight behind Robin Hood Gardens campaign
Gold medallists and Pritzker winners are among petition supporters
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OpinionRobin Hood Gardens and the state of post-war listing
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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News
Profession rallies to rescue Smithsons' Robin Hood Gardens
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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NewsProfession rallies to save threatened housing estate
Tower Hamlets Council confirms that it will seek to ratify demolition option next week
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OpinionA demolition job on the truth
The landlord’s consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens has been seriously flawed
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Analysis‘It’s a great place to live, absolutely’
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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NewsDemolition would be a “real tragedy”, says Rogers
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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OpinionTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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NewsSign up to save Robin Hood Gardens now!
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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NewsOnly listing can save Robin Hood Gardens
BD launches campaign, spearheaded by Simon Smithson, to save his parents' 1972 Robin Hood Gardens estate
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