Alison and Peter Smithson
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Alison Margaret Smithson and Peter Denham Smithson were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership. They are associated with New Brutalism in architectural and urban theory.
Peter and Alison Smithson in 1990
Robin Hood Gardens housing complex, Poplar, East London, completed 1972
Hunstanton School, Norfolk
Garden building, St Hilda's College, Oxford (1968)
Golden Lane Estate
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The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War. Since 1997,
Alison and Peter Smithson
…in which traffic and pedestrian circulation were rigorously separated, a theme popular in the 1960s, yet coined by the Smithsons in 1952 with their Golden Lane Estate competition entry. The Smithsons described places where "two women with prams can stop and talk without blocking the flow, and [these streets] are safe…
Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction.
The location of the Golden Lane Estate
Basterfield House
Crescent House, with the Barbican Estate in the background