Lord Rogers campaigns to save tower blocks

26th June 2015

Lord Rogers has launched a campaign to stop the demolition of a brutalist housing estate which he believes is a "masterpiece" in the same league as St Paul's Cathedral. The architect said that he would "absolutely" live in Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, east London and has been described as "ill-planned to the point of inhumane". He argues instead that the two concrete blocks, which were built in 1972 and provide 213 flats linked by "streets in the sky" are not ugly but "extremely interesting" and "great architecture". The blocks are scheduled to be demolished to make way for new housing as part of the Blackwall Reach regeneration plan.

The Times (20/06/2015)