East London – refurbish and recycle

Two strong pieces of content in this week’s Building Design, both focused on east London. The first concerns the paper’s fantastically well supported campaign to save the Robin Hood Garden – editor Amanda Baillieu widens the argument from the architectural to the sustainable, vigorously claiming that the east London block of flats "is a sustainable community". Surely there must be red faces all round at quango English Partnerships, who is proposing the demolition of the estate.

The second article hones in on an intriguing live art installation. Artist Sumer Erek is to build entirely from newspapers next week in Hackney. He’s encouraging members of the public to turn up with said rubbish and take part in the build and he’s started a blog about it as well.

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