Tonight I watched a video of a bridge in Cleveland being demolished, flashing lines of Det Cord illuminating before the blasts that sheared the bridge deck from the piers. I laid in bed for hours restless about how simple it looked to make something so massive disappear.
Architecture's rise and fall from grace is terribly fickle, and Robin Hood Garden by Alison & Peter Smithson seems it was born under Saturn. It's slated for demolition, but perhaps its fates not sealed. In 2012 I visited the project. Below are the photographs I captured, even in decay there is something hopeful about them.