Public Practice: one year on

摘要

Architect Lucia Cerrada's desk in Tower Hamlets' planning department overlooks two of the borough's most famous post-war housing estates, both undergoing radical change. The last-remaining block of the Smithsons' Robin Hood Gardens and the newly scrubbed-up and privatised Balfron Tower are the products of an experimental era of municipal housing when about half of all architects worked for local authorities.