And a giant glass pyramid in the heart of the brutalist Barbican estate. Welcome to London, not as it is but as it could have been. A new book, Atlas of Never Built Architecture, tells the story ...
while the curved ends of the door handles reference the estate’s renowned central water fountain, Frobisher Crescent. 'We have been inspired by the historical, architectural and cultural ...
This is the rethink of an apartment buried in the height of Shakespeare Tower on the Barbican Estate. Having spent many years overseas ... and the result is a project where traditional Japanese ...
The much loved Barbican Estate in London comprises many parts ... curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) ...
By the Sixties and Seventies, brutalism began to be used as a broader term to describe architecture characterised by monolithic concrete forms with an imposing or monumental appearance. London’s best ...