New York Times Critic Visits Robin Hood Gardens

Steve Forrest, The New York Times It takes a lot of energy to make concrete, and a lot of concrete to make a building like Robin Hood Gardens, the Alison and Peter Smithson icon that is under threat of demolition. TreeHugger has covered the campaign to save it and the issue of how buildings from the era are currently not fashionable, but that doesn't mean we should tear them all down. Nicholas Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for the New York Times, visits the site and adds to the discussion....