http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/ contemporary metamorphoses Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-58362 Andrew Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:51:34 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-58362 Demolishing it is a travesty. Why? It doesn't have to be ugly. Give it some color, accentuate the architectural highlights, let it stand out as a beacon rather than a blight. Label it blight, and that's what people will think. Lend it some illumination and thinking changes. The place needs a light color scheme, so that at night it isn't just people's yellow-lit windows. See http://glasssteelandstone.com/Temp/Singapore/Sing40.jpg for painted color, see http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/3077709559_dbe29ec98f.jpg?v=0 for illumination. Demolishing it is a travesty. Why? It doesn’t have to be ugly. Give it some color, accentuate the architectural highlights, let it stand out as a beacon rather than a blight. Label it blight, and that’s what people will think. Lend it some illumination and thinking changes. The place needs a light color scheme, so that at night it isn’t just people’s yellow-lit windows. See http://glasssteelandstone.com/Temp/Singapore/Sing40.jpg for painted color, see http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/3077709559_dbe29ec98f.jpg?v=0 for illumination.

]]> http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-48207 Harry Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:03:15 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-48207 Certainly would be wasteful to demolish it, but I don't like it as it is. Brighten it up in the spirit of Hundertwasser! Certainly would be wasteful to demolish it, but I don’t like it as it is.
Brighten it up in the spirit of Hundertwasser!

]]> http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-44487 The Grinning Smithsons | adaptivereuse.net Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:33:10 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-44487 [...] The whole project is near to, and reminiscent of, their own weekender, the refreshingly ascetic Upper Lawn Pavilion. It’s hard to imagine a more exciting prospect for adaptive reuse - beautiful (in a rustic [...] [...] The whole project is near to, and reminiscent of, their own weekender, the refreshingly ascetic Upper Lawn Pavilion. It’s hard to imagine a more exciting prospect for adaptive reuse - beautiful (in a rustic [...]

]]> http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-41050 David Hicks Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:17:38 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/#comment-41050 Of course Robin Hood Gardens must be saved. Not only because the Smithsons were brilliant (and my heroes when studying in the 50s) but because it is simply unecological to destroy housing stock and rebuild. This causes huge pollution and waste. Look at Corb's Unite at Marseille. Previously widely condemned, I learnt on a recent visit it is now the place for professionals to live! Of course Robin Hood Gardens must be saved. Not only because the Smithsons were brilliant (and my heroes when studying in the 50s) but because it is simply unecological to destroy housing stock and rebuild. This causes huge pollution and waste. Look at Corb’s Unite at Marseille. Previously widely condemned, I learnt on a recent visit it is now the place for professionals to live!

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