An example of the duo’s “Streets in the Sky” concept, the Robin Hood Gardens featured wide concrete balconies on every third level of each building, providing views into the central garden and create ...

Peter Smithson, an influential British architect and teacher who, with his wife, Alison, infused the pure formalism of modern design with a broader concern for the social environment, died on Monday ...

The Swan Housing Association has announced the appointment of Danish firm C.F. Møller to join Haworth Tompkins and Metropolitan Workshop in designing housing projects for the Blackwall Reach ...

Alison Smithson was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1928. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Barbican Art Gallery have featured Alison Smithson's work in the past.

Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a trustee and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. Poplar, in the east of London, is home to two blocks of housing that are providing a symbolic battleground ...

Dying can do wonders for your reputation. There's nothing better for raising your standing with the general public than shuffling off this mortal coil. Just ask Ronald Reagan (though admittedly that ...

The Robin Hood Gardens public housing complex in East London has finally met the wrecking ball. After years of protests from locals, architects, and critics, local authorities at the Tower Hamlets ...

PETER WHO? Peter Smithson, who died this week at the age of 79, was not well known among the British at large—the people most likely to have seen his work—nor even among those who have come to hate ...

In 2017, British news magazine The Economist will move to a new home, leaving behind its iconic home of 52 years, Economist Plaza. The project represents the first major commission by British duo ...

The mighty Brutalist shadow cast by Alison and Peter Smithson`s best-known public works (the Economist Building, the Robin Hood Gardens) has obscured the complexity of their four-decade practice.

Tumult, anxiety and an openness to reconstructing society are at the heart of a new show, featuring works by Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres and Frank Bowling. Our homes are an expression of the way we ...