This drone footage shot by Dezeen surveys the ill-fated brutalist housing estate Robin Hood Gardens, designed by architects Alison and Peter Smithson, which is set to be demolished in the coming weeks.
Designed by the Smithsons during the 1960s and completed in 1972, Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, east London, is the only housing estate by the pair that came to fruition.
It is considered exemplary of new brutalism, an architectural style gaining its name from the French béton-brut, or raw concrete, used to form the structures.
The estate is about to be demolished to make way for a suite of new housing blocks, despite years of campaigning to have it heritage listed. The first block could be razed any day now, while the second will be pulled down later.
Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/15/robin-hood-gardens-brutalist-housing-estate-demolition-drone-footage-movie-alison-peter-smithson-london-uk/
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