4 Responses to “RHG”

1. 

   Robert Pike  on May 15th, 2009

   Great news! Why list a failed ugly block of flats. If the Smithsons weren’t involved then nobody would have jumped on the bandwagon to save it! This is post war disaster that reflects the planning mistakes that occured in that period. Now lets undo those mistakes and get rid of this abomination.

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   Mark Ellery  on May 15th, 2009

   ha ha
   are you trying to provoke an argument?

   Castles are not fit for purpose

   we can no longer live in them, they are draughty and they leak, they are not built to a very high density either, and they dont provide a space for the tv either

   but they are cared for, loved, cherished and kept – because they are history

   you need to understand modernism and brutalism

   then you can understand robin hood gardens (rhg)

   RHG is nothing to do with a band wagon, and it is certainly not failing.
   if you would care to read the 10,000 words i wrote about post war buildings then you might understand why RHG is not an ugly and failed block of flats

   PS as for “undoing those mistakes” – the developments replacing post war blocks are worse than the buildings they replace!

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   jon p  on May 7th, 2010

   It is often difficult to appreciate the importance of contemporary buildings. Even Christopher Wren himself had buildings demolished in the Victorian age. Additionally, John Soane’s Bank of England, demolished in the 1920s is nowdays often regarding as one of the greatest loses to the City of London.

   I often worry that the people often times pivotal in authorising a buildings demolition have scant understanding or interest in architecture.

   Classicism, Gothic Revival, Brutalism…it is all stages in the history of architecture. It would be a shame if we denied future generations the opportunity to make there own minds up of what are the relevant buildings of our heritage.

4. 

   Mark Ellery  on June 30th, 2010

   HERE HERE! WELL SAID TOO JON

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