Robin Hood Gardens, the Glossary
Robin Hood Gardens is a residential estate in Poplar, London, designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972.[1]
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66 relations: A102 road, Alison and Peter Smithson, Andy Burnham, Architectural Association School of Architecture, B. S. Johnson, Back-to-back house, Balfron Tower, Blackwall Tunnel, Brownfield land, Brutalist architecture, Building Design, Canary Wharf, Certificate of Immunity from Listing, City of London, Concrete degradation, Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, Docklands Light Railway, East India Dock Road, East India Docks, English Heritage, English Partnerships, Equity sharing, Garden city movement, Georgian era, Golden Lane Estate, Greater London Council, Historic England, Housing association, Isle of Dogs, Jane Jacobs, John Nash (architect), Landlord, Le Corbusier, Listed building, London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Margaret Hodge, Maxwell Hutchinson, Michiel Brinkman, Millennium Green, Natural surveillance, Park Hill, Sheffield, Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency), Poplar High Street, Poplar, London, Precast concrete, Public housing, Public housing in the United Kingdom, Real estate development, Regular grid, ... Expand index (16 more) »
- Brutalist architecture in London
- Housing estates in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- The Twentieth Century Society Risk List
A102 road
The A102 is a road that starts in Clapton, east London, and ends by merging into the A2 road just south of the Sun in the Sands roundabout in Blackheath, south-east London.
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Alison and Peter Smithson
Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism, especially in architectural and urban theory.
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Andy Burnham
Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017.
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Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest private school of architecture in the UK.
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B. S. Johnson
Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic.
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Back-to-back house
Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various forms.
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Balfron Tower
Balfron Tower is a 26-storey residential building in Poplar, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London. Robin Hood Gardens and Balfron Tower are Brutalist architecture in London.
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Blackwall Tunnel
The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road.
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Brownfield land
Brownfield is previously-developed land that has been abandoned or underutilized, and which may carry pollution, or a risk of pollution, from industrial use.
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Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era.
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Building Design
Building Design, or BD, is a British weekly architectural magazine, based in London.
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Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Certificate of Immunity from Listing
In England a Certificate of Immunity from Listing, generally known as a Certificate of Immunity (COI), is a document which guarantees that a building will not be statutorily listed (added to the National Heritage List for England (NHLE)) or be served with a Building Preservation Notice (BPN) by the local planning authority for the succeeding five years.
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City of London
The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.
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Concrete degradation
Concrete degradation may have many different causes.
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Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and congresses arranged across Europe by the most prominent architects of the time, with the objective of spreading the principles of the Modern Movement focusing in all the main domains of architecture (such as landscape, urbanism, industrial design, and many others).
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Docklands Light Railway
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct connection between London's two major financial districts, Canary Wharf and the City of London.
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East India Dock Road
East India Dock Road is a major arterial route from Limehouse to Canning Town in London.
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East India Docks
The East India Docks were a group of docks in Blackwall, east London, north-east of the Isle of Dogs.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.
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English Partnerships
English Partnerships (EP) was the national regeneration agency for England, performing a similar role on a national level to that fulfilled by regional development agencies on a regional level.
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Equity sharing
Equity sharing is another name for shared ownership or co-ownership.
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Garden city movement
The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts.
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Georgian era
The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to, named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.
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Golden Lane Estate
The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.
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Greater London Council
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.
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Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Housing association
In Ireland and the United Kingdom, housing associations are private, non-profit making organisations that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in need of a home.
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Isle of Dogs
The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, which includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts.
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.
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John Nash (architect)
John Nash (18 January 1752 – 13 May 1835) was one of the foremost British architects of the Georgian and Regency eras, during which he was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London.
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Landlord
A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a lessee or renter).
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
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Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough of London, England.
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Margaret Hodge
Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, (née Oppenheimer, formerly Watson; born 8 September 1944) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking from 1994 to 2024.
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Maxwell Hutchinson
John Maxwell Hutchinson (born 3 December 1948) is an English architect, broadcaster, and Anglican deacon.
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Michiel Brinkman
Michiel Brinkman (1873–1925) was a Dutch architect and the father of Johannes Brinkman the exponent of Nieuwe Bouwen, modern architecture in the Netherlands.
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Millennium Green
Millennium Greens are areas of green space for the benefit of local communities in England.
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Natural surveillance
Natural surveillance is a term used in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) models for crime prevention.
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Park Hill, Sheffield
Park Hill is a housing estate in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)
Poplar and Limehouse is a constituency created in 2010 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Apsana Begum of the Labour Party until her suspension and whip withdrawn on 23 July 2024, as a result of voting to scrap the two child benefit cap.
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Poplar High Street
Poplar High Street is a street in Poplar and in Blackwall, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Poplar, London
Poplar is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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Precast concrete
Precast concrete is a construction product produced by casting concrete in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and maneuvered into place; examples include precast beams, and wall panels, floors, roofs, and piles.
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Public housing
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom
Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing.
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Real estate development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
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Regular grid
A regular grid is a tessellation of n-dimensional Euclidean space by congruent parallelotopes (e.g. bricks).
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Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture.
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Right to Buy
The Right to Buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom, with the exception of Scotland since 1 August 2016 and Wales from 26 January 2019, which gives secure tenants of councils and some housing associations the legal right to buy, at a large discount, the council house they are living in.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (lit. "The Dam on the River Rotte") is the second-largest city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam.
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Rowan Moore
Rowan William Gillachrist Moore (born 22 March 1961) is an architecture critic.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.
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Spangen
Spangen is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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The Big Issue
The Big Issue is a United Kingdom-based street newspaper founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991 and published in four continents.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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The Twentieth Century Society
The Twentieth Century Society (abbreviated to C20), founded in 1979 as The Thirties Society, is a British charity that campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage from 1914 onwards. Robin Hood Gardens and the Twentieth Century Society are the Twentieth Century Society Risk List.
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Tower block
A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.
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Unité d'habitation
The Unité d'habitation (Housing Unit) is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso.
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Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of Architecture (in Italian Mostra di Architettura di Venezia) is an international exhibition of architecture from nations around the world, held in Venice, Italy, every other year.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
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See also
Brutalist architecture in London
- 102 Petty France
- Alexandra Road Estate
- Alton Estate
- Balfron Tower
- Barbican Centre
- Barbican Estate
- Baynard House, London
- Brunel University lecture centre
- Brunswick Centre
- Centre Point
- Dunboyne Road Estate
- Eros House
- Finsbury Estate
- Glenkerry House
- Grenfell Tower
- Guy's Hospital
- Hayward Gallery
- Hyde Park Barracks, London
- Langham House Close
- Michael Faraday Memorial
- Pimlico Academy
- Purcell Room
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Robin Hood Gardens
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal National Theatre
- Sampson House
- Samuda Estate
- Southbank Centre
- Tower Hotel, London
- Trellick Tower
- Whittington Estate
Housing estates in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Aberfeldy Village
- Barkantine Estate
- Boundary Estate
- Coventry Cross Estate
- Cranbrook Estate
- Donnybrook Quarter
- Dorset Estate
- Lakeview Estate
- Lansbury Estate
- Phoenix Heights
- Robin Hood Gardens
- Samuda Estate
- South Quay Estate
- St John's Estate
The Twentieth Century Society Risk List
- All Saints Pastoral Centre
- Alton Estate
- BFI IMAX
- Coleg Harlech
- County Hall, Cardiff
- Coventry Central Baths
- Cressingham Gardens
- Dunelm House
- Fawley Power Station
- Greenbank Drive Synagogue
- Holborn Library
- Hove Town Hall
- Hyde Park Barracks, London
- Manchester Reform Synagogue
- Museum of London
- Oasis Leisure Centre
- Richmond House
- Ringway Centre
- Riviera Hotel, Weymouth
- Robin Hood Gardens
- Shirehall, Shrewsbury
- St Leonard's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea
- St Peter's Seminary, Cardross
- Sunderland Civic Centre
- Swansea Civic Centre
- The Elephant Building
- The Twentieth Century Society
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_Gardens
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