Results tagged “1970s architecture”

BUILDING Design magazine has launched a petition to save Robin Hood Gardens from the bulldozers.

The 1970s brutalist housing estate near Canary Wharf is threatened with demolition as part of the proposed Blackwall Reach regeneration scheme, which would incorporate shops, businesses and 3,000 new homes north of Aspen Way.

But architectural magazine Building Design is spearheading a campaign to save Alison and Peter Smithson’s controversial creation.