• Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London

    Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London
    The architect Richard Gibson, a contemporary of Richard Rogers, left forward-thinking Camden council in 1969 for the UK’s northernmost isles. There, he says, he refined his ideas about well-made homes for all, in work that feels newly relevantRichard Gibson and I turn up unannounced at a primary school in Hamnavoe, Shetland – a light, airy, steel-framed structure of repeating shallow-pitched roofs designed by him more than 40 years ago. We are enthusiastically welcomed by the headtea

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