{"id":17242,"date":"2017-11-15T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:55:48","slug":"bbc-on-conservation-conundrums-va-to-display-robin-hood-gardens-brutalist-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=17242","title":{"rendered":"BBC on conservation conundrums: V&A to display Robin Hood Gardens Brutalist flats\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DBW<\/a>The BBC has featured a decision by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) \u2013 formerly the \u2018Museum of Manufactures\u2019 \u2013 to preserve the design values of representative flats in London\u2019s famous Brutalist mass housing complex, Robin Hood Gardens, scheduled for demolition.<\/h3>\n

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The BBC writes:<\/p>\n

The Victoria & Albert Museum is to display a three-storey section of an east London council estate as an example of Brutalist architecture.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The section, which includes two flats, exterior facades and two interior staircases, has been acquired from Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar.<\/p>\n

Designed by renowned British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, the block is due to be demolished and redeveloped.<\/p>\n

The V&A has called it a “significant example of the Brutalist movement”.<\/p>\n

Brutalism, a movement characterised by exposed concrete in geometric patterns, arose in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

Robin Hood Gardens was built in 1972 by the Greater London Council (GLC) and was later transferred to the local authority of Tower Hamlets.<\/p>\n

The choice of Alison and Peter Smithson as architects gave the husband and wife team their only opportunity to create a council estate.<\/p>\n

Robin Hood Gardens was the result of their research in and vision for social housing.<\/p>\n

It is distinctive for its noise-reducing features, like exterior concrete fins, and its elevated walkways, known as “streets in the sky”.<\/p>\n

The Smithsons said they regarded Robin Hood Gardens as “a demonstration of a more enjoyable way of living [and] a model, an exemplar, of a new mode of urban organisation.”<\/p>\n

A V&A spokesman said no decisions had yet been made on where and how the structure would be displayed.<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n

For more background on the style see DBW article<\/a>\u00a0and on the development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on the historical casework and background see the IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC has featured a decision by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) \u2013 formerly the \u2018Museum of Manufactures\u2019 \u2013 to preserve the design values of representative flats in London\u2019s famous Brutalist mass housing complex, Robin Hood Gardens, scheduled for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}