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TO LIVE IN, AND TO LEAVE, A LANDMARK CONCRETE JUNGLE

Depending on who you ask, Robin Hood Gardens was either a modern masterpiece of Brutalist design or a concrete eyesore, but when the London estate was demolished, beginning in 2017, the voices of the people who lived there were missing.

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