Robin Hood Gardens

Enough with the eulogising already.
Just demolish the bloody thing and be done with it.
Maybe, just maybe, Hodge has a point - virtualising it is the right thing to do.
This makes everyone happy - RHG is Canonised, the Smithsons become the sanctified martyrs that is deserving of such st.architects (according to the theory) and the scuffers who live there get their tacky Tudobethan boxes.
Every architect knows all too well that this building is better in the photos than real life anyway.
And let’s face it, it ain’t all that hot in the photos.

Posted on 08.03.08 by Norman Blogster

10 Responses to “Robin Hood Gardens”

  1. Thanks for a sane voice. It should be demolished. And anyone who thinks that the campaign to save it is anything more than a guilt trip for a British architectural culture that rejected the Smithsons during their liftimes, is kidding themself. Where were those thousands of supporters when A&P had to move to Germany and build weird houses in the forest in the 1980s? The hypocrisy knows no bounds.

    breville said this on March 10th, 2008 at 13:35

  2. Yes, it is bl**dy ugly. Get rid of it.

    Alice Architect said this on March 10th, 2008 at 13:55

  3. What are the Robin Hood Gardens?

    Avi said this on March 10th, 2008 at 16:42

  4. Avi - click this

    Norman Blogster said this on March 10th, 2008 at 17:08

  5. that is one fugly building!

    Tomtom said this on March 10th, 2008 at 17:19

  6. erm….im confused. im sure i saw norman blogster on the front pafe of the bd as a name on the petition to save it?!?! fill me in normy?

    fred said this on March 10th, 2008 at 22:53

  7. Well, fred, all I can say is that you don’t want to believe everything you read in the papers.

    Norman Blogster said this on March 10th, 2008 at 23:33

  8. Oh god that’s ugly. Yeah, destroy them already, what’s the delay? Norman, did the header for PartIV just get updated? Looks nice!

    Avi said this on March 11th, 2008 at 21:37

  9. really, and what will you be getting instead?

    architecture-to-please-all?
    architecture-to-divert-your-attention?
    architecture-as-entertainment?

    good luck london

    seier+seier said this on March 13th, 2008 at 22:02

  10. It is amazing Norman, you are so anti-freeze you are actually pro-Wimpy (or pro-Barrats, or Fairview or any of those lumps of crap developers).
    The whole argument is about greed, its about how to put 2000 private flats in a prime site now occupied by 250 social tenants. And then also that Robin Hood Gardens happens to be a beautiful building and a part of this country’s architectural history.

    Javier said this on April 10th, 2008 at 01:19

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