Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to design some of the housing that will replace Robin Hood Gardens, the historic east-London estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson.
The London studio led by architects Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins will work alongside Metropolitan Workshop on phase two of the redevelopment scheme in Poplar, known as the Blackwall Reach Regeneration project.

The 1970s estate will be demolished to make way for the new housing, despite a long-running campaign to have the complex heritage listed by high-profile architects including Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Robert Venturi and Toyo Ito.

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"We respect the legacy of the Smithsons and are all too aware of the intellectual challenge involved in working on Blackwall Reach," said Haworth Tompkins director Toby Johnson.
"The new residential buildings should be of the highest design quality and we welcome the opportunity to help achieve this," he added.

Metropolitan Workshop partner Neil Deely said the studio would work with Haworth Tompkins to "create the best possible place we can to live in Blackwall Reach".
Howarth Tompkins ? which won the UK's most important architecture prize in 2014 for its Liverpool Everyman Theatre ? replaces Jestico + Whiles as Metropolitan Workshop's collaborator.
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