Social housing worker tours London's most rundown housing estates

How did this rundown estate turn into a bustling neighborhood? We’re gonna more London’s uncovered A finest booking in and today we’re in Brunswick Central. December architect Peter Hodgkinson’s in the 1960s Brunswick Square needed a new replacement from the rundown Georgian era housing. The original brief was to design an accommodation with the same density as 2 tower blocks without exceeding the 84 height limit. So that day was to basically design A holistic community integrating housing, shopping, a Medical Center, cinema and an office space. Only a single development. I don’t know about you, but that’s a very ambitious project. However, about the 90s, Brunswick Capricorn completely rundown the concrete unwashed and the shops left empty. This place starts to become very unpopular and very underappreciated. The concrete was left unpainted due to Costco measures. Housing Leap and the original vision for this estate never came to flourishing, despite this being unpopular with people that hated brutalist architecture. Brunswick Estate was awarded Great to listed status to come in 2006. Years later their state was given a coat of pain. Given that facelift that Hodgkin’s always wanted separately, I couldn’t help but notice a striking resemblance. This estate has to Alexandra and ends with the state. They literally share the same design language with this elevated step down design which ensures that every apartment would receive at least two hours of sunlight every day. 20 million was invested to repair and restore this modern alcohol shopping. Streets were upgraded and candy piece were added to create a more friendly environment. This is an example of an estate that was run down and got rejuvenated. So do you think this should be the same treatment for other social housing estates in London? This might be the last time they’ve seen this building. London to uncover the furnace blocking ends. And today when Robin Hood Gardens located in Poplar in East London, there was a Zambia married architects Allison and Peter Smith. There was also featured in a new Netflix show, The Kitchen. When we got here, Josh and I started the whole block looking for any signs of life, but it was soon clear that the building was fully abandoned. You can’t actually get in, bro, until this happened. Oh my date. No, that’s actually crazy. We liked it, but anyway, let me give you some architectural effects. So the architects designed the walkways wide enough for the children to play and to inspire community cohesion. They also implemented clean front doors which forced you to bump into your neighbor whenever you had a chance. I don’t know how unknown that could get, but let’s go. Located next to the Blackwell tunnel, the architect is under the Woolswich actually like sound barriers against the heavy noise pollution nearby, the also faced their bedrooms inwards towards the lush garden. You can imagine this greenery in the middle in case by two buildings on either side. But in 2017 the Western Bloc was completely demolished. However part of it was reserved by the Vienna Museum. There was an attempt, supported by many noble architects, to secure list of status for this estate, but was rejected by the government in 2009. It was really sad to see buildings like this goal. People do prefer the modern buildings, however. How do you know that these modern buildings that we see wouldn’t age the same way They’re cheering for the next block though. Talk.