Children playing in the 'street in the sky' at Robin Hood Gardens (c) Laura Chan
Throughout the 1950s to 1970s, modern architecture spawned Brutalism, a raw concrete and polemical aesthetic that was adopted by East London’s Poplar – home to two brutalist heroes, Balfron Tower (1967) and its neighbouring Robin Hood Gardens (1972). Both were built to promote a sense of neighbourliness and inhabitant movement through communal walkways, playgrounds and interconnectivity between inside and out.
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